04-10-2013, 04:45 PM | #16216 | |
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Carolyn Keene (Mildred A Wirt) & C.E. Murphy
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04-10-2013, 06:09 PM | #16217 | |
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04-10-2013, 07:53 PM | #16218 |
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He appears to have stopped writing the followon Wolfe books in 1994, but has now written a new one, the Archie Meets Nero Wolfe that Apache mentioned. I recently read it, and rather enjoyed it, though I'm not sure it was quite as good as the best of Rex Stout's. (FWIW, Goldsborough wrote a different series, with Steve "Snap" Malek, a police reporter, that is set in NYC in the 30's and 40's.)
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04-10-2013, 08:51 PM | #16219 |
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They are definitely good, but Rex Stout was better. What do you expect. Stout was a genius.
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Then I read Slow Life by Michael Swanwick while deciding which longer story to read. An excellent "novelette" as recommended above by fantasyfan a few days ago. I then continued my read of Randolph Lalonde's Spinward Fringe series with Broadcast 5: Fracture. I purchased this back in September 2011 and never got to it since it is part of an internal trilogy which wasn't ready at the time. I am really enjoying the story line in this series, but the timeline is too condensed for it to be believable. You can't get 1,000 people to all work together as an integrated team in less than 2 weeks and you can't train soldiers in that time and expect them to be effective. Still, the premise of the series is enough that I will probably continue, but I am going to take a break again. Next up is A Clean Kill in Tokyo by Barry Eisler, previously published as Rain Fall. I have been wanting to read some more action/thriller books for a while, so this should scratch that itch. |
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04-11-2013, 03:45 PM | #16224 |
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I was about to start reading: The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor but Kindlegen did a poor job converting the .epub format to .mobi.
The file ended up being unreadable in the Kindle. Might be that the layout was too complex or something. |
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Catching up on Dresden. Now at Turn Coat.
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I haven't read Moxyland yet, but I have read Zoo City too. It was good but not as great as it was made out to be. The Shining Girls is quite different from her previous work and should have a much larger appeal.
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04-12-2013, 05:17 AM | #16229 | |
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Next I read The Gods of War created by Christopher Stasheff. This is a series of short stores by various authors with a connecting narrative. It was OK, but no more than OK. Now: The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie. Back to one of my bargains from the Fictionwise Agatha Christie sale. Her 46th mystery book. |
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