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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Land of Lincoln
Device: Kobo Sage. Ex Sony (PRS-500, -600, -650 and Nook)
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About 20% of the way through the new William Gibson novel, The Peripheral. Very good read so far, the narration is more reminiscent of his Sprawl series than anything he's done since. That also makes it slow going and having to go with the flow of Gibson's narration, accumulating details of the story and characters as one goes. It is akin to the Bridge trilogy of technology not-quite-arrived-yet but very plausible, combined with the standard Gibson elements of bleeding-edge technology and techno issues.
For those who started Gibson with the most recent Blue Ant trilogy the book may come as something of a shock, it's style and tone are different. But for someone who's read everything William Gibson's written, this reads like another leap forward while respecting his roots. Can't wait to finish it, but also trying to enjoy it slow as we only get a new Gibson novel every three to four years. |
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Norfolk, England
Device: Kindle Oasis
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Next up: A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie. Her 54th mystery book. Wow - I paid £3.99 for this one! It must have been one of the last ones missing from my collection. Bought back in December 2010. |
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#21108 |
Guru
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Device: Sony PRS-505, Kindle 3 KB, iPad2
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I'm nearing the 1/2-way point of The Paper Magician which I picked up as the Kindle First freebie in August. It's *really* good. The sequel, The Glass Magician was just released on 4 November, and I have it queued up to read very soon.
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#21109 |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Idaho, USA
Device: Various PalmOS PDAs, Android Phones, Sharper Image Literati
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Currently 51% through the 3rd book of John Ringo's "Black Tide Rising" series.
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: UK
Device: Kindle, Kobo Touch, Nook SimpleTouch
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I don't know what's next. Probably a heroic fantasy of some sort, although I have also been reading Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes intermittently, and might just bring that up to full speed. (I believe it was called something else in the US, since it's not that president. It's about a murder in an Oxbridge-style university college.) I need to catch up on my alphabetic detective challenge. This one is John Appleby, for A. |
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eBook Enthusiast
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6
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Just finished "Poirot's Early Cases", by Agatha Christie, originally published in 1974. A collection of 18 short stories featuring Hercule Poirot, most of which had originally been published in magazines. Very enjoyable.
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#21112 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Device: Kindle Scribe, Kindle Paperwhite
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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#21113 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Canada
Device: Kobo Clara BW, Kindle Paperwhite (11th Gen)
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I finished The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson. Very enjoyable book! It is YA, but there was a good mystery as well as an interesting magic system and likeable characters. Highly recommended!
Now going to read The Dresden Files book 3 Grave Peril by Jim Butcher. |
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#21114 |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Device: Sony PRS-505, Kindle 3 KB, iPad2
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I finished The Paper Magician this afternoon. Now I'm reading As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley, the 7th book in his mystery series featuring young Flavia de Luce. This is a review book scheduled for publication on 6 January 2015.
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: 33.9388° N, 117.2716° W
Device: Kindles K-2, K-KB, PW 1 & 2, Voyage, Fire 2, 5 & HD 8, Surface 3, iPad
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![]() program, Ticker [Kindle Edition] by Lisa Mantchev, a fantasy concerning the adventures of Penny Farthing who, despite having a brass timepiece for a ticker, manages to lead a very active life. I'm really looking forward to this one. ![]() ![]() |
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#21116 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ottawa Canada
Device: Sony PRS-T3, Galaxy (Aldiko, Kobo app)
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Just finished David Drake's "Dinosaur & a Dirigible". Time travel and TRex, what's not to like
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#21117 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Here on the perimeter, there are no stars
Device: Kobo H2O, iPad mini 3, Kindle Touch
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Since I'm mired in fixing my copy of Skeleton Crew as well as working on a new novel, I've taken up Space Captain Smith as my current "casual read." (I have to read SkCrew like I'm proofreading it - paperback here, ebook there, and the iPad handy for taking notes. Hardly casual. SCS still has a few formatting glitches, but only occasional ones.)
SCS is somewhere between steampunk, British colonialism, and wacky space opera. I think Arthur Dent would feel right at home here. |
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#21118 |
eBook Enthusiast
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6
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Just finished "The Defiant Agents", by Andre Norton; the third book in her "Time Traders" series, and the first half of the Baen "Time Traders II" omnibus. Typical Norton, by which I mean that it was a decent enough story, but didn't really draw me in to the story. Average.
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Location: Norfolk, England
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Next up: Shining Steel by Lawrence Watt-Evans. One of his stand-alones, as far as I know. |
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#21120 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ottawa Canada
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Finished "Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life" by Stanley Weintraub.
This book concentrates on 8 years in FDR's life, when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson administration. After reading it, I understood how critical this period was in preparing him for the trials of the Presidency. In this period he learned how the federal civil bureaucracy and the upper levels of the American military worked, how to run a large government enterprise, and how the legislative branch operated vis-a-vis the executive branch. Because of this, he was able to hit the ground running in 1933, at one of the critical points in history. |
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