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pdurrant · 01-31-2014, 08:41 AM

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Now back to Crocodile on the Sandbank (which I'm enjoying a lot), and then back to the Kelly short stories.

I finished Crocodile on the Sandbank, which I enjoyed a lot, although the villain and motives were obvious from about half way through. I'm looking forward to reading the rest over the next few years.

Now to finish up my anthology of short stories.

HarryT · 01-31-2014, 09:48 AM

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I finished Crocodile on the Sandbank, which I enjoyed a lot, although the villain and motives were obvious from about half way through. I'm looking forward to reading the rest over the next few years.

Yes, as I said when you initially asked, it's really not the mysteries which make this an enjoyable series - you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out "whodunnit"

. It's the atmosphere and characters that make them worth reading.

CRussel · 01-31-2014, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Yes, as I said when you initially asked, it's really not the mysteries which make this an enjoyable series - you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out "whodunnit"

. It's the atmosphere and characters that make them worth reading.

FWIW, I was just able to buy the first four books in the series, as an omnibus, from Kobo. The price was $13.04, and it was Coupon-able with a 50% off coupon. Making the price per book ~$1.51. The Canadian price was a few cents more, but also accepted coupons. The omnibus was NOT available from Amazon.

benham · 01-31-2014, 12:24 PM

I was checking out Kobo the other day, for Rick Murcer. They didn't have any of his books. I haven't bought anything from them in a couple years and forgot why I stopped. Do they usually have the books you are looking for?

CRussel · 01-31-2014, 12:30 PM

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I was checking out Kobo the other day, for Rick Murcer. They didn't have any of his books. I haven't bought anything from them in a couple years and forgot why I stopped. Do they usually have the books you are looking for?

Both Rick Mercer books are there. The key is spelling his name correctly.

I checked both the US and the Canadian sites, and both have him.

Generally, I find Kobo has some books that Amazon doesn't have, and Amazon has many that Kobo doesn't have. Some of that is Geo-restrictions. My ebook account on Amazon is purely US. But I have both US and Canadian Kobo accounts. Currently, the Olivia Chow autobiography is not available in the US, so I can't buy it from Amazon. And it's still quite expensive at Kobo in Canada.

HarryT · 01-31-2014, 01:06 PM

Neither I nor Amazon UK have ever heard of Olivia Chow

.

alansplace · 01-31-2014, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by CRussel

Both Rick Mercer books are there. The key is spelling his name correctly.

Which 'both books'?

leanansidhe · 01-31-2014, 01:58 PM

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Neither I nor Amazon UK have ever heard of Olivia Chow

.

Canadian politician. I think she's going to run for mayor of Toronto.

leanansidhe · 01-31-2014, 01:59 PM

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Which 'both books'?

These 2:

http://www.amazon.ca/Rick-Mercer-Rep.../dp/0385665199

http://www.amazon.ca/Nation-Worth-Ra...ds=rick+mercer

xg4bx · 01-31-2014, 02:02 PM

Plugging away at Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings. It's good but 1200 pages, yikes.

leanansidhe · 01-31-2014, 02:04 PM

Reading Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia: http://www.amazon.ca/Monster-Hunter-...=larry+correia

Really enjoying it so far. Very reasonably priced as well.

orlok · 01-31-2014, 03:05 PM

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Reading Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia: http://www.amazon.ca/Monster-Hunter-...=larry+correia

Really enjoying it so far. Very reasonably priced as well.

It's a really fun series. Can't wait for the next, Monster Hunter Nemesis, due out in the summer.

Now reading Visually Disturbed by V.M. Fahy. An interesting premise (though hardly original) about a psychiatrist whose patient passes on the gift of foresight which he activates by touching someone. It's a first novel, and highly rated (5 stars on Goodreads), but the more I read the more frustrated I am becoming - too many typos (sometimes more than one a page), and the narrative and dialogue is getting a bit hysterical.

ucfgrad93 · 01-31-2014, 03:21 PM

I am currently reading The Two Towers on my Kindle Paperwhite 2.

DMcCunney · 01-31-2014, 04:05 PM

I seem to be reading (or re-reading) mostly non-fiction at the moment.

The current book in progress is a re-read - Seymour Martin Lipset's Political Man. Lipset was a sociologist, and his work explored the underlying social bases behind various political movements. It makes some points that seem to be forgotten in today's political environment. A minor one is that Left, Right, and Center all derive from the French First Republic, where delegates to the assembly sat in a semi-circle, with the lower classes at the left, the upper classes at the right, and the middle class in the center. A more interesting one is that Fascism (embodied by by Peronism in Argentina, Mussolini in Italy, and De Gaulle in France) is a middle-class movement. The supporters are farmers, small businessmen, lower level government employees and the like, who see themselves threatened by things like trade unionism on the Left and Big Business on the Right. I see "Fascist" tossed around frequently as an epithet, and all I can say is "I don't think that word means what you think it does."

I was delighted to find Political Man at archive.org. (https://archive.org/details/politicalmansoci00inlips)

The Mobi version is readable here, but it needs substantial cleanup to be a proper eBook. Among other things, it makes extensive use of footnotes, which the scanning process drops in-line in the page where they appear, and they need to be moved elsewhere and turned into proper hyper-links.

One new read is Joseph Schumpeter's Captialism, Socialism, and Democracy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital..._and_Democracy)

Schumpeter was an Austrian economist (and briefly Austria's Minister of Finance), and a contemporary of John Maynard Keynes. He was inspired by Marx, but thought "Marx asked all the right questions, and got all the wrong answers." He was a friendly critic of Keynes, who thought that Keynes got the wrong answers too, but recommended Keynes' work that talked about money.

See http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/10/sch...chumpeter.html for a good overview on the pair by Peter F. Drucker. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker)

Speaking of Drucker, another re-read is his Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. Drucker is credited with inventing modern management, starting with his 1947 work The Concept of the Corporation, by analyzing and codifying what management was and what managers did. Drucker's work underlies a good deal of my own thinking, and I consider it crucial.

Other re-reads of critical stuff include Edward T. Hall's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_T._Hall) books, The Silent Language, and The Hidden Dimension. Professor Hall was an anthropologist at the University of New Mexico, doing research on comparative culture. He and his research partner, linguist Norman Trager, discovered they would have to create a comprehensive theory of culture to define and classify what they were comparing. The theory is laid out in those books, and a third volume, Beyond Culture. Hall's theory treats culture as communication, and makes the critical point that 90% of it is handled on an unconscious reflex level. Many things fell into place when I first read Hall.

Upcoming in the queue are Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Jared Mason Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, and Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Conscoiusness in the Breakdown of the Bi-cameral Mind.

So many books. So little time.

CRussel · 01-31-2014, 04:17 PM

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Neither I nor Amazon UK have ever heard of Olivia Chow

.

Widow of Jack Layton, who was head of the NDP party here. And very much a force in Canadian politics on her own. Both were Members of Parliament in their own right. A woman I respect a good deal, and I'd be interested to read more about/from her. But $16 is just more than I can justify for a single book.

Her book is available in Amazon.ca, but I don't have a Kindle account for that store. And it's the same price as at the Canadian Kobo store.

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benham Guru Posts: 882 Karma: 5565888 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Townsend, WI Device: Palm TX, PRS-505 (BLUE)	I was checking out Kobo the other day, for Rick Murcer. They didn't have any of his books. I haven't bought anything from them in a couple years and forgot why I stopped. Do they usually have the books you are looking for?

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DMcCunney New York Editor Posts: 6,384 Karma: 16540415 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: PalmTX, Pocket eDGe, Alcatel Fierce 4, RCA Viking Pro 10, Nexus 7	I seem to be reading (or re-reading) mostly non-fiction at the moment. The current book in progress is a re-read - Seymour Martin Lipset's Political Man. Lipset was a sociologist, and his work explored the underlying social bases behind various political movements. It makes some points that seem to be forgotten in today's political environment. A minor one is that Left, Right, and Center all derive from the French First Republic, where delegates to the assembly sat in a semi-circle, with the lower classes at the left, the upper classes at the right, and the middle class in the center. A more interesting one is that Fascism (embodied by by Peronism in Argentina, Mussolini in Italy, and De Gaulle in France) is a middle-class movement. The supporters are farmers, small businessmen, lower level government employees and the like, who see themselves threatened by things like trade unionism on the Left and Big Business on the Right. I see "Fascist" tossed around frequently as an epithet, and all I can say is "I don't think that word means what you think it does." I was delighted to find Political Man at archive.org. (https://archive.org/details/politicalmansoci00inlips) The Mobi version is readable here, but it needs substantial cleanup to be a proper eBook. Among other things, it makes extensive use of footnotes, which the scanning process drops in-line in the page where they appear, and they need to be moved elsewhere and turned into proper hyper-links. One new read is Joseph Schumpeter's Captialism, Socialism, and Democracy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital..._and_Democracy) Schumpeter was an Austrian economist (and briefly Austria's Minister of Finance), and a contemporary of John Maynard Keynes. He was inspired by Marx, but thought "Marx asked all the right questions, and got all the wrong answers." He was a friendly critic of Keynes, who thought that Keynes got the wrong answers too, but recommended Keynes' work that talked about money. See http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/10/sch...chumpeter.html for a good overview on the pair by Peter F. Drucker. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker) Speaking of Drucker, another re-read is his Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. Drucker is credited with inventing modern management, starting with his 1947 work The Concept of the Corporation, by analyzing and codifying what management was and what managers did. Drucker's work underlies a good deal of my own thinking, and I consider it crucial. Other re-reads of critical stuff include Edward T. Hall's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_T._Hall) books, The Silent Language, and The Hidden Dimension. Professor Hall was an anthropologist at the University of New Mexico, doing research on comparative culture. He and his research partner, linguist Norman Trager, discovered they would have to create a comprehensive theory of culture to define and classify what they were comparing. The theory is laid out in those books, and a third volume, Beyond Culture. Hall's theory treats culture as communication, and makes the critical point that 90% of it is handled on an unconscious reflex level. Many things fell into place when I first read Hall. Upcoming in the queue are Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Jared Mason Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, and Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Conscoiusness in the Breakdown of the Bi-cameral Mind. So many books. So little time.