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Old 02-11-2012, 08:47 PM   #12346
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Next up: Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker. I got a pointer to this from Dana Stabenow's site, and I'm roughly 40% into it already, and liking it.
Finished Bruno, Chief of Police, and enjoyed it very much indeed. This was an impulse buy, based on a recommendation from Dana Stabenow, and it has turned out to be very enjoyable. Bruno is the sole regular policeman in a smallish town (St. Denis) in the Périgord. Bruno knows everyone, and sees his job as keeping the peace and supporting the citizens of his town rather more than upholding the law. But a brutal killing brings down the forces of Paris, and leads to multiple conflicts. But, of course, in the end things basically work out. Kind of a Provence version of Louise Penny, but with a substantial bit of Miss Marple thrown in. A very enjoyable read, and one I was happy to return to at every opportunity.

Also read The Old Man and the Sea, for the first time in at least 45 years, so it was completely new to me. Obviously, it's a story that has stood the test of time, and I am grateful to The Terminator for uploading it. I hope some other Hemingways are uploaded now that he is out of copyright here in Canada (and other Life+50 countries).
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Old 02-11-2012, 09:01 PM   #12347
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Finished Bruno, Chief of Police, and enjoyed it very much indeed. This was an impulse buy, based on a recommendation from Dana Stabenow, and it has turned out to be very enjoyable. Bruno is the sole regular policeman in a smallish town (St. Denis) in the Périgord.
Sounds a bit like the Hamish Macbeth novels set in rural Scotland, also a good read.


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Old 02-11-2012, 09:06 PM   #12348
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Finished Bruno, Chief of Police, and enjoyed it very much indeed. This was an impulse buy, based on a recommendation from Dana Stabenow, and it has turned out to be very enjoyable. Bruno is the sole regular policeman in a smallish town (St. Denis) in the Périgord. Bruno knows everyone, and sees his job as keeping the peace and supporting the citizens of his town rather more than upholding the law. But a brutal killing brings down the forces of Paris, and leads to multiple conflicts. But, of course, in the end things basically work out. Kind of a Provence version of Louise Penny, but with a substantial bit of Miss Marple thrown in. A very enjoyable read, and one I was happy to return to at every opportunity.

Also read The Old Man and the Sea, for the first time in at least 45 years, so it was completely new to me. Obviously, it's a story that has stood the test of time, and I am grateful to The Terminator for uploading it. I hope some other Hemingways are uploaded now that he is out of copyright here in Canada (and other Life+50 countries).
Wow, I haven't read The Old Man and the Sea for about that long as well. Just where can I find this upload so I can download it?
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Old 02-11-2012, 09:23 PM   #12349
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Wow, I haven't read The Old Man and the Sea for about that long as well. Just where can I find this upload so I can download it?
The Patricia Clark Memorial Library, of course.

Note: it's ePub only at this point, so you'll have to do your own conversion.
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Sounds a bit like the Hamish Macbeth novels set in rural Scotland, also a good read.


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Better than the Hamish MacBeth novels, I think, though I did enjoy the first couple of them I read. More like Louise Penny, but with a local main character.
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Old 02-11-2012, 09:28 PM   #12351
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The Patricia Clark Memorial Library, of course.

Note: it's ePub only at this point, so you'll have to do your own conversion.
And unfortunately, I believe it is not out of copyright in the U.S.
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Old 02-11-2012, 09:35 PM   #12352
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The Patricia Clark Memorial Library, of course.

Note: it's ePub only at this point, so you'll have to do your own conversion.
Yeah, I found it and came back to update my other post.

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Old 02-11-2012, 11:29 PM   #12353
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Also read The Old Man and the Sea, for the first time in at least 45 years, so it was completely new to me. Obviously, it's a story that has stood the test of time, and I am grateful to The Terminator for uploading it. I hope some other Hemingways are uploaded now that he is out of copyright here in Canada (and other Life+50 countries).
I'm going to start working on A Farewell To Arms tomorrow.
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Old 02-12-2012, 01:13 AM   #12355
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And unfortunately, I believe it is not out of copyright in the U.S.
No, and the way things are going in the US, it may never be. Fortunately, I don't have to deal with US silliness nearly as much as I used to. Only when I have to go down there for travel of one sort or another.

For Mobileread, their servers are located in Canada, I believe, so the default is to follow Canadian copyright. Though they do have some books uploaded that are not out of copyright in Canada, but are in the US. Those are hosted on a different server.
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Old 02-12-2012, 03:43 PM   #12356
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Just finished Heat Rises by Richard Castle and it was an excellent police procedural. Not just the book, but virtually every chapter, had a surprise twist that I did not see coming. Now I'll have to get the others in the series and read them.

Next up The Drop by Michael Connelly.
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I'm still slogging through The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison. I had such high hopes for it but somehow I just don't feel compelled to read it. I'm so tempted to just look online and see who the killer is and then put it down for good.
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Just finished reading Contact by Carl Sagan. I have been a fan of the movie for a long time and never thought about reading the book until recently. It was fantastic! I won't state that it was better than the movie in every regard as I think they made some pretty interesting changes in the screenplay adaption. I also wonder how it would be received by a wide readership audience today as I think some Creationists might argue that the book makes an original argument for Intelligent Design (the book is fiction, of course, so I think this would be a bit nonsense).
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Just finished reading Contact by Carl Sagan. I have been a fan of the movie for a long time and never thought about reading the book until recently. It was fantastic! I won't state that it was better than the movie in every regard as I think they made some pretty interesting changes in the screenplay adaption. I also wonder how it would be received by a wide readership audience today as I think some Creationists might argue that the book makes an original argument for Intelligent Design (the book is fiction, of course, so I think this would be a bit nonsense).
Yes! I read Contact twice in high school and although I love the movie, the book is ten times better. That movie/book started me on my life as a skeptic, since after I read the book I also read Sagan's Demon-Haunted World, (a debunking of several paranormal and psuedoscientific topics) and from there started searching the Internet and found the James Randi Educational Foundation. I've been a skeptic ever since, all thanks to Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey.

I moved a few years ago and a box of books got lost in the mail. Among them was my movie-tie-in paperback of Contact. I've still never found another physical copy, but maybe there's an ebook now.
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A Dance with Dragons just showed up again in my inbox from the library, so I'm back to alternating chapters between that and A Feast for Crows. I only have 3 stories left in A Study in Sherlock so I'll try to finish those up at some point before it goes back to the library on Friday. I only finished two chapters in Quiet so I returned it to the library and put myself back on the waiting list (I'm #48).
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