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11-18-2019, 04:04 PM | #2747 | |
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Oddly enough, I just finished reading Space Cadet, one of Robert Heinlein's juvies from 1948. Let's just say that we don't quite have the faith in men of science that they did back then and certainly word word sexist comes to mind. It was just a different time. Wonderful about your hearing aid. Congratulations! |
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11-19-2019, 04:18 PM | #2748 |
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Julia Whalen is doing a terrific job reading Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation, which involves a brat scoring downers off her shady shrink to get through life. Great satire!
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11-19-2019, 08:04 PM | #2749 |
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Did you read Moshfegh's Eileen? I thought that had a pretty high ick factor, and I'm wondering if My Year of Rest and Relaxation is less gross.
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Put it this way - not sorry I dropped an Audible credit on it. |
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11-20-2019, 01:14 PM | #2751 | |
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11-20-2019, 03:11 PM | #2752 |
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I'm trying to think of what would be "gross" in the book? The gal lets herself and her apartment go, so that both can appear "squalid" at times I suppose; similarly, her quack of a shrink has issues with her office and personal appearance as well. All that is more sad than yucky to me though. It's becoming scary as she doesn't so much sleep, but black out more than a day at a time, waking up to evidence of having been out of the house interacting consciously with others, no memory of it at all.
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11-21-2019, 10:44 AM | #2754 |
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I'm listening to the Terror by Dan Simmons on Audible and the narrator is excellent so far. On Chapter 7. It's a long one.
I'm listening to Perry Mason's The Case of the Girl with the Lucky Legs on Scribd. Those are enjoyable, narrator is great and fun stories. |
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Are these read from books? I didn't know there were Perry Mason books. I have the tv series and the old radio series - my late SIL and I had literally nothing else in common except my brother and Perry Mason.
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11-21-2019, 11:08 AM | #2756 | |
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Gardner was actually a trial lawyer originally. The books are from the 30's, 40's and 50's. I think there were as many as 80. They were originally mostly published in pulp magazines if I remember correctly. Last edited by pwalker8; 11-21-2019 at 11:11 AM. |
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11-21-2019, 11:28 AM | #2757 | |
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11-21-2019, 12:07 PM | #2758 |
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@Apache: Thanks for that. I'd both watched the original TV series, and read many of the books in my youth, but knew little about the author.
I've just abandoned Laurie R. King's The Bones of Paris, her second Stuyvesant and Gray mystery. Nothing wrong with the narrator (Jefferson Mays), but I really was not enjoying the story or where it was going. WAY too dark for me. I enjoy her Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes books, and even her Kate Martinelli, but I'll be giving this series a pass from now on. Next up? I think a re-listen to Neogenesis by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (read by Eileen Stevens) to get ready for the release of Accepting the Lance, while I continue with Payment in Blood, the second in Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley series. Last edited by CRussel; 11-21-2019 at 02:13 PM. |
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Thanks Apache and PWalker8. I had no idea about the books. Can't understand how I missed them. I really only started reading this genre 15 years ago, but still - never came across a single book! Thanks so much!
I finished Snuff by Terry Pratchett. Wonderful book that deals with some serious issues. Two books left in the official series plus a novella. Currently listening to Unfettered (fantasy anthology) edited by Sean Speakman and narrated by a variety of narrators. I'm lukewarm on the first 3 stories so far. Last edited by Tarana; 11-21-2019 at 01:04 PM. |
11-21-2019, 01:37 PM | #2760 |
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In the early Perry Mason books Mason was very hardboiled and not above breaking the law. Gardner toned him down in later books. The first book didn't even have a court room scene.
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