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Tom Corbett Omnibus
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02-27-2013, 02:23 PM | #15783 |
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Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
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02-28-2013, 02:26 AM | #15784 | |
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Carey Rockwell & Dana Stabenow
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This time, instead of the next Nancy Drew Mystery, I'm going to try the first novel in the Tom Corbett Omnibus, Stand by for Mars! by Carey Rockwell. Also I'm reading Dana Stabenow's 18th Kate Shugak Mystery, Though Not Dead. |
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02-28-2013, 08:28 AM | #15785 |
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Just finished The Reality Dysfunction - need a break from that so now reading Oryx and Crake
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02-28-2013, 11:28 AM | #15786 |
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I've just finished "At Home" by Bill Bryson. This is a very interesting book. In it, Bill Bryson basically explores the history of why our homes are the way they are, and looks at the interesting and often unexpected history of every room in the house, and why it ended up the way it did. Highly recommended.
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02-28-2013, 11:37 AM | #15787 |
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02-28-2013, 12:02 PM | #15788 |
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I enjoyed it, not quite as much as the KS books, but well enough. I will look into continuing the series at some point. For now it is on to Second Star to get back into some science fiction.
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02-28-2013, 07:30 PM | #15789 | |
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02-28-2013, 09:25 PM | #15790 |
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Just finished up Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson. This was a very good book on the causes and fighting of the Civil War.
I'm going to switch it up and read The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker. |
02-28-2013, 09:30 PM | #15791 | |
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03-01-2013, 06:55 AM | #15792 |
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I finished "Impact" by Douglas Preston last night. This is the third book in his "Wyman Ford" thriller series, and it's one to be avoided. Mr. Preston writes excellent "techno-thrillers", but this one is just silly. An alien space weapon, hundreds of millions of years old, buried in one of the moons of Mars, is awakened by a modern space probe, and threatens to destroy the Earth. Can Wyman Ford and a young girl (who just happens to be a genius) defeat it? I knew this was going to be a bad one when the aforementioned girl set up a telescope, looked at Orion, and saw... the Andromeda Galaxy! (The reason it's called "the Andromeda Galaxy", Mr Preston, is that it's in the constellation of Andromeda, which is nowhere near Orion.)
Mr Preston's written some excellent thrillers (including the two previous book in this series), but this one's just silly. Don't waste your time with it. In case you're ever faced with the problem of having to stop an alien super-weapon from destroying the Earth, by the way... Spoiler:
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03-01-2013, 08:51 AM | #15793 | |
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03-01-2013, 03:21 PM | #15794 |
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Last night I finished Jack & Jill by James Patterson. It's the 3rd book in the Alex Cross series. Very good. Highly recommended.
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03-01-2013, 04:46 PM | #15795 |
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I enjoyed it a lot. Maybe not as much as I had hoped, but it was worth the time and money. It was descriped as horror, but it's more fatasy/adventure. There was nothing scary about this book, and I'm scared easily . Next up: Paaz by Myrthe van der Meer. It's about time that I was going to read a Dutch author again .
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