06-30-2014, 07:08 AM | #20086 | |
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Next, another long-standing unread from Fictionwise, a short story: "The Fish Merchant" by Tobias S. Buckell A very good short story, although the SF aspect is secondary. And now, The Spartacus File by Lawrence Watt-Evans. |
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06-30-2014, 12:46 PM | #20088 |
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A very good SF/Dystopia/Revolution novel indeed. I like it a lot. Come to think of it, I think I like everything of his that I've read.
And now: Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison. The third in her Rachel Morgan series. Unless things improve I won't bother with the rest. Rachel's whininess about her boyfriend troubles is irritating. |
07-01-2014, 01:48 PM | #20089 | |
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
--Ron Ronson About one out of every 100 people is a psychopath. You probably know one. Or two. Quote:
Scary stuff. Now I'm stuck trying to analyze everyone around me to see if they are a psychopath. (And watching as the author hilariously points out psychopathic characteristics in himself.) Some interesting stories in the book. 'Tony', tries to get out of a modest prison sentence by pleading insanity. Twelve years later, and he is still being held indefinitely, and can't convince the psychiatrists he is sane. The psychopathic population or prisons runs about 15% vs 1% for the general population, and 3% for business management. I had to add another book, Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work, by Paul Babiak and Robert Hare, to my reading list. |
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07-01-2014, 04:22 PM | #20090 |
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Well, that was quite a pleasure. The protagonist, Bennie Cooperman, is a bit of a zshlub, but quite Canadian. No shoot-em-up, no car chases, and really no violence.
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07-01-2014, 04:51 PM | #20091 |
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I'm in chapter 69 of Dan Brown's Inferno, my first foray into the author's work. Builds up slowly and fully chichéd like a bad hollywood thriller, but it's gripping nonetheless. Part thriller and part tourist guide it's also partially a symbolic retelling of Dante's Inferno with Langdon almost in the same shoes of the poet... interesting.
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07-01-2014, 05:01 PM | #20093 | |
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07-01-2014, 09:49 PM | #20094 | |
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07-01-2014, 11:35 PM | #20095 |
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A very funny book by Adam Carolla, "In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks." Downloaded from the local Library. A good summer read that takes my mind off of the torrid weather we're having. Ought to be a great hurricane book too (Arthur).
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07-02-2014, 02:26 PM | #20096 |
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I finished B.J. Daniels' Rescue at Cardwell Ranch and Wedding at Cardwell Ranch. Nice light mysteries/romance.
Now reading a Star Trek novella, The More Things Change by Scott Pearson. It's about Christine Chapel and Spock! Reading some short books since I don't have much time to read while helping my Mom move. |
07-02-2014, 02:49 PM | #20097 |
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Reading "Everything They had: Sports Writing From David Halberstam". This is a collection of newspaper columns and magazine articles on various sports, written by David Halberstam over a span of 50 years, and selected for book publication by Glenn Stout.
I've loved his baseball book "Summer of '49" for years, admired as his political and history work ("The Best and the Brightest", "The Fifties", "The Coldest Winter"), and didn't know that he had written so widely about sport other than baseball. The organization of the book is by sport and theme, and all of the stories are short and stand-alone, so it is perfect for dipping into at random. Everything I've read so far is excellent - "The Basket-Case State" and "He Got a Shot in the NBA, and It Went In" about basketball, and "Homage to Patagonia" about fishing and watching "the Gigantes of New York play the Cuervos of Baltimore". It's a great loss that we will have nothing new from him; he died in 2007. |
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I'm stuck. I downloaded a batch of free e-Books from Kobo, and now that I've finished the Stephen Leather Hard Landing book, I don't know what to read next
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07-03-2014, 04:49 AM | #20099 | |
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Weird Tales Vol. I by E.T.A. Hoffmann is what I'm currently reading. It was uploaded to MobileRead's Patricia Clark Memorial Library by crich70. Very strange stuff.
Vol.1: ePub / Kindle Vol. 2: ePub / Kindle |
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