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Originally Posted by CRussel
Still reading A League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout. This has been a slog -- not because it's a bad book, but because it's such a horrible conversion. I ended up deciding to read and correct as a single pass, using Calibre's editor. Fortunately, I have an OpenLibrary PDF version I can use to verify what it should be. But it has slowed me down somewhat 
While I'm slogging through that, I went ahead and started Michael Connelly's new book, The Late Show. This is the first of a new series featuring Renée Ballard, an LA detective. So far, it's a bit slow and not his best writing--rather choppy and stilted. But it is the first in the series and he's setting up a lot of back story, so it may improve. I'll give it a while longer. |
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Originally Posted by CRussel
Well, that was fun. Not. The number of errors in the version I had was truly astonishing. Really unusable. But I went through the process and cleaned it all up as I read it, but certainly it slowed down my reading!
As for the book itself? Very much enjoyed, despite the casual misogyny, bigotry, and racism that is inherent in pretty much any books written in this period, and perhaps even more so in the early Nero Wolfe books. (Goodwin's character uses words and expressions many found questionable then, and certainly none would use today.)
I'll be reading the rest of this series over time, one or two at a time. For now, I'll move on to The Rubber Band, #3 in the series. Hopefully it's a cleaner copy.
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Still reading
The Late Show, by Michael Connelly, and it's improving as we focus more on the story, and less on the back story. But I had to put it down for a bit, the eARC of
NeoGenesis, the 21st book in the Liaden Universe® released yesterday, and I'm well into that already.