12-15-2013, 09:03 AM | #18331 |
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Just finished The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly. Excellent Lincoln Lawyer book I had trouble putting down. Great read!
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12-15-2013, 11:15 AM | #18332 | |
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12-15-2013, 12:40 PM | #18333 |
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Finally done with The Luminaries - I think it took me some eight or ten days... Didn't have a lot of time to read this past week. :-/
In any case, it's not the best book I've ever read, and I am not sure it'll quite make my top ten favourite reads this year, but I did enjoy it as well as appreciate it (not always the same thing!). The only thing that didn't work for me in the least (and which, I suspect, was a major part of why it's been so critically acclaimed) was the way astrology was used as a sort of framing device for the narrative structure. I'm sure someone with wider knowledge about those matters would get more out of it, because I'm sure there was something very clever being done there, but since it's not a field I've ever had much interest in, I admit I didn't "get" the point of it at all. |
12-15-2013, 12:57 PM | #18334 | |
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Peter Ustinov or David Suchet
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12-15-2013, 01:30 PM | #18335 |
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Well, we won't agree on that, though I liked the Ustinov version. Just not as much as the Suchet versions.
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12-15-2013, 02:17 PM | #18336 |
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Looking for Transwonderland by Noo Saro-Wiwa, daughter of murdered Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. She's lived most of her life in England, with visits to Nigeria as a kid, so the book is a travel narrative through that country, where she's both a native and a stranger at once. Love her style - I'd buy an essay on her walk around the block to Tesco!
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12-15-2013, 04:08 PM | #18337 |
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The Passage by Justin Cronin- ''An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.''
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12-15-2013, 04:55 PM | #18338 |
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Suchet will always be THE Poirot.
If not him, the only alternative is this: Spoiler:
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12-15-2013, 09:19 PM | #18339 |
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Don't know where to put this... I'm both reading and listening to Patrick O'Brian's sixth novel in the Aubrey/Maturin series, The Fortune of War. These books just keep getting better and better. Hard time putting it down.
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12-15-2013, 09:23 PM | #18340 |
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Haven't checked in here for a while ...
Still continuing my journey through the complete oeuvre of Henry James - currently reading 'The Princess Casamassima' - its style is Dickensian - I keep being reminded of 'Great Expectations' and 'David Copperfield' with a dash of 'Hard Times' - although it was nice to meet up with Christina Light again. Suddenly this weekend I decided to re-read 'Dracula' - and am immensely enjoying meeting old fiends/friends again .... |
12-16-2013, 04:02 AM | #18341 |
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12-16-2013, 11:22 AM | #18342 |
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I'm currently reading 19th Element by John Betcher, just started it but not bad to this point.
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12-16-2013, 03:41 PM | #18343 |
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I'm on the David Suchet side
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12-16-2013, 04:25 PM | #18344 |
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My vote goes for Suchet as well.
Back on topic, after The Luminaries, I felt like something shorter and simpler, so I read Doctor Who: The Death Pit by A. L. Kennedy, the first in a new Time Trips e-story series (each by a different author, much like the recent Doctor Who 50th anniversary series, but aimed probably at a somewhat older audience and not in strict order; this story, kicking off the series, starred the Fourth Doctor). It was... okay. I didn't particularly dislike it, and there were some bits I enjoyed (and I thought the Forth Doctor's characterisation was pretty decent), but I also didn't really love it all in all. |
12-16-2013, 05:25 PM | #18345 |
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I recently finished Dalek I Loved You by Nick Griffiths. It's an autobiography of a British writer focused largely on his lifelong love of all things Doctor Who. Being more of a casual fan of the franchise, I wasn't sure if I would get lost with any of the potential references. The writer fortunately wrote his memoirs with an eye towards non-Who fans, and helpfully provided short episode and character descriptions as needed.
Doctor Who is a recurring theme, but the book does a particularly good job evoking the author's childhood in 1970's England. I thought the description of the author's later years wasn't quite as gripping. I enjoyed the read but am uncertain how someone completely unfamiliar to Doctor Who would take it. |
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