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Post by feca67 on Jan 22, 2015 1:02:14 GMT -8
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Post by feca67 on Jan 28, 2015 11:12:49 GMT -8
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Post by feca67 on Feb 4, 2015 3:29:13 GMT -8
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Post by feca67 on Feb 11, 2015 10:47:34 GMT -8
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Post by docmac88 on Feb 14, 2015 4:47:46 GMT -8
I read therefore I am. I cannot be without a book of some description, real or electronical. I have 1200 books in my man cave, and I'm working my way through the 200+ that I've not read yet. I also have a couple of hundred audiobboks. Her Ladyship has banned me from buying any more books untill they are all read. Yeah right ! laugh1.gif
I'm currently reading: Ramsey Campell " Deathshead ". Loo reading mainly, (and yes1.gif I always wash my hands, the book never goes anywhere near the actual loo !) Bob Monkhouse "Unpublished" . Bed time reading. Ian Henderson "Disappear". Kindle edition freebie (actual Kindle, phone or netbook), lunchtimes, coffee shop and other places where a real book is not really convenient. Piers Anthony Xanth series (I'm working my way through the 31 I have, they're puntastic) No. 21 "Faun and Games". Audio book for to and from work. I'd love to know what you're reading.. If you like to read and love books or written words you would probably like "The Swerve" by Stephen Greenblatt, which is the story of how Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things caused the world to change ( swerve)
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Post by feca67 on Feb 21, 2015 10:33:54 GMT -8
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Post by feca67 on Mar 5, 2015 10:25:09 GMT -8
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Post by 69ChevelleSS on Mar 5, 2015 14:49:10 GMT -8
Abyss by Rolind Miller.
It's about a guy that is asked to interview Satan.
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Post by feca67 on Apr 3, 2015 9:51:50 GMT -8
Finally finished The Stand - I read Joyland recently, a Coney Island ghost story type of thing and my first Stephen King novel, it was really enjoyable, so I thought maybe I've been missing out. So I tried The Stand, a huge novel and supposedly his best, but I found it pretty average. Next, Steinbeck.
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normdiaz
Is a Permanent Fixture
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Post by normdiaz on Apr 3, 2015 10:22:47 GMT -8
BEFORE SHE DIES, Kindle edition, by Mary Burton. (IMHO she comes up with some interesting police procedurals similar to those of the late Ed McBain, aka Evan Hunter, but with more convoluted plots.)
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Post by docmac88 on Apr 3, 2015 18:49:16 GMT -8
Just found a 1st edition Endurance by Alfred Lansing, so I am re-reading this most incredible story ever.
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Post by lordflagpolecrabtree on Apr 3, 2015 23:41:14 GMT -8
I broke my no buying any more books rule. But it was in a charity shop, and it was brand new and only 50p. The voices in my head made me do it !
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Post by docmac88 on Apr 4, 2015 7:08:06 GMT -8
I would say my casual reading during my life has been in several stages: classic science fiction, Greek history, then Roman / Biblical history, then American Civil War reading which lasted about 4 years, then onto WW2 and research on my uncle who was a B17 pilot, from that lead to various biographies and then to Physics. But I actually have a collection of first edition fly fishing books, not high on the daily reading list, but more for reference/ historical.
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Post by lordflagpolecrabtree on Apr 8, 2015 3:03:23 GMT -8
Random book grabbed from bookcase yesterday because neither my current read nor Kindle would fit in my jacket pocket.
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Post by docmac88 on Apr 9, 2015 18:55:57 GMT -8
The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor
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Post by feca67 on Apr 13, 2015 3:33:59 GMT -8
Cannery Row was excellent, no surprises there. Something a bit newer...
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Post by feca67 on Apr 22, 2015 12:46:56 GMT -8
Hype or reality - The City & The City is different and original, but its also a bit laboured and the prose is ordinary. Interesting, but not brilliant. Now, a guaranteed good read
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Post by 69ChevelleSS on Apr 30, 2015 6:33:51 GMT -8
The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus. He's an ancient Jewish Historian.
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Post by russtmurray on Apr 30, 2015 13:19:53 GMT -8
Dead Wake - The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. It's been a great read thus far!
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Post by craig28w on Apr 30, 2015 13:30:33 GMT -8
The greatest app ever is Overdrive , link your tablet to the library of your choice to borrow whatever e-books they have. Last year I read a personal best of 50 books, this year is a little slower because I started with Moby Dick a hard and long one but I really wanted to finish it. Sons by David Gibert The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore They Eat Puppies don't They by Christopher Buckly Boomsday by the same and just started The devils Star by Jo Nesbo. I would recommend them all.
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