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Is that a sandwich?
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Next, is a free book from Harper Voyager, The Rogue Retrieval by Dan Koboldt. |
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Wizard
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Location: Jianghu
Device: PW1, PW5, iPhone SE 2016, iPhone 13 Pro, iPad Pro 9.7, iPad Pro 2021
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Location: Norfolk, England
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The Couch Potato
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Connoisseur
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I just loved Sharkchild's "The spirit Collectors", a dark fantasy. Certainly slow to start with, but it was a great read nonetheless. Maybe the online reader helped, since many words would have gone right over my head, but I could just click and see a short definition.
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Device: Sony PRS-505, Kindle 3 KB, iPad2
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I pre-ordered it and it showed up on my shelf this morning. Downloaded to my Kindle, but can't read it right away because I've got 4 books borrowed from the library that I need to read and return first.
Currently reading He Shall Thunder in the Sky, another Amelia Peabody archaeological mystery by Elizabeth Peters. And I'm listening to Citadel, the second book in John Ringo's Troy Rising trilogy. I anticipate finishing it toward the end of the year since I rarely listen to a book unless I'm the only person in the car. Next up are the other library books: Death of a Policeman and Death of a Liar by M. C. Beaton -- both part of her Hamish Macbeth mystery series. Also Dead Wrong, number 12 in the Sheriff Joanna Brady mystery series by J. A. Jance. |
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Wizard
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Mauritius
Device: Kindle Paperwhite 4
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As of now my to be read list has grown. I'm reading John Adams by David McCullough, two cozies (Vanilla Vices (Donut Shop Mystery #22) by Jessica Beck, Raspberry Revenge by Beck again, and the Thomas Hardy novel, Far From the Madding Crowd. At the same time I'm continuing my reading of Candy Corn Murder. Also I'm re reading A Dance with Dragons.
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Location: Sunshine Coast, BC
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It's sitting on my Kindle right now, but I must say the initial reviews are not encouraging. OTOH, I've started it, and at least it's not repeating the exact same scenes from an earlier book.
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And most of the time I don't mind reading the same scene -- it serves as a reminder, and can be enjoyable if the author takes the time to adapt the text to cover a different character's point of view or augment the description of the event with more information. Now, when the author simply copies & pastes from a previous book, it seems just a bit lazy and I may get piqued about it. (Depends on how long its been since I read the prior book.)
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Location: Norfolk, England
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I'm about half way through, and we're just about caught up with events from the last book, I think. |
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Just a Yellow Smiley.
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Location: Texas
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Finished through 21 of the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series.
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Perth Western Australia
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Nine Hundred Grandmothers, R A Lafferty (mine is an Ace paperback)
Fantasy short stories, some frequently anthologised including title story and "Narrow Valley". Lafferty is a prolific short story writer with his own unique and distinctive voice, (over 300 stories is my guess) and has had, so I believe, a convention, LaffertyCon, devoted solely to him and his works. 1: Nine Hundred Grandmothers 2: Land of the Great Horses 3: Ginny Wrapped in the Sun 4: The Six Fingers of Time 5: Frog on the Mountain 6: All the People 7: Primary Education of the Camiroi 8: Slow Tuesday Night 9: Snuffles 10: Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne 11: Name of the Snake 12: Narrow Valley 13: Polity and Custom of the Camiroi 14: In Our Block 15: Hog-Belly Honey 16: Seven-Day Terror 17: The Hole on the Corner 18: What’s the Name of That Town? 19: Through Other Eyes 20: One at a Time 21: Guesting Time Last edited by Pulpmeister; 11-03-2016 at 01:48 AM. Reason: typos |
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Home Guard
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Location: Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
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His wikipedia entry has links to several works online, including 900 Grandmothers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._...ailable_online The background is messed up at the SciFi.com Wayback links. You'll have to highlight the text to read it. Edit: Google Books may be a better option. It has sample pages of the collection, but Nine Hundred Grandmothers is intact. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_...NeABIQ6AEIVDAJ Last edited by BenG; 11-03-2016 at 12:36 PM. Reason: fixed quote tags |
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: PDXish
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I don't think that cyberpunk is my genre, I really want to enjoy it but I have not loved the two pillars of the genre that I have read (this and Snow Crash). These are supposed to be 2 of the best cyberpunk books* out there but neither one worked for me.
That said, I did really like Ready Player One, which shows up on some other lists and I think is a good fit, and I have liked many books by some of the top "cyberpunk" authors like Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon/Seven Eves), Charles Stross (Laundry books), and China Mieville (Kraken), and I enjoyed Boneshaker but that is not cyberpunk so I am not sure why it is on this list. Next up: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, book 2 in the Three-Body Problem/Remembrance of Earth's Past series. *Source: http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/b...ooks.php#crowd Last edited by Dazrin; 11-03-2016 at 12:19 PM. |
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Location: Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
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I finished Revenger by Alastair Reynolds. The story was good but I'm not sure I liked how the main character turned out. Is it supposed to be YA? It seems kind of violent for that.
Currently reading Sapiens for the book club and probably reading Arabella of Mars by David Levine or Fran Wilde's Updraft for my next fiction book though I may get sidetracked by Lafferty. |
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