01-07-2013, 04:30 PM | #15136 |
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I am currently reading How Christianity Changed the World on my Kindle.
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01-07-2013, 04:46 PM | #15137 |
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01-07-2013, 05:05 PM | #15138 |
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01-07-2013, 05:21 PM | #15139 |
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Oh just one more thing....
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01-07-2013, 07:00 PM | #15140 | |
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01-07-2013, 11:02 PM | #15141 |
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Just finished Charon's Claw (Neverwinter book 3), time for A Memory of Light!
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01-08-2013, 12:50 AM | #15142 |
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Add my name to the list. I used to love watching and reading all of the Columbo stories. I've got a couple of the old TV series stored away on a hard drive somewhere.
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01-08-2013, 11:31 AM | #15144 | |
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Brandon Mull and Blake Crouch
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Someone in another thread mentioned Pines by Blake Crouch, I investigated and found it in the Amazon Prime free library, so I grabbed it for my January book. Last edited by alansplace; 01-08-2013 at 05:03 PM. Reason: oops! |
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01-08-2013, 04:52 PM | #15145 | |
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Next up is my latest purchase Murder Most Holy by Paul Doherty. (As opposed to pdurrant who lets 5 years pass before reading, I read all my latest buys. ) My first with this author. |
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01-09-2013, 09:07 AM | #15146 |
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I read Frederik Pohl's The Cool War. Good, but a little cheesy at times. I don't think the mystillarce (mystery, thriller, farce) is a genre I like that much. This one read just a little too campy at times. 6 out of 9.
Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked into Doors was brilliant. Roddy's usual choppy and somewhat disjoint style to start, but this book drags you in and is a visceral and blunt view into an ugly and terrifying subject. 9 out of 9. I started Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. If first 25 biting, sarcastic, dark and scathing pages is any indication, I am going to love this book. |
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01-09-2013, 11:23 AM | #15148 |
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The Greater Trumps is by Charles W.S.Williams, a close friend of C.S.Lewis. He too was a member of The Inklings and he Lewis and Tolkien formed a triumvirate which has given memorable fantasy novels. Unlike the other two, Williams sets his novels in the everyday world and subjects his characters to an invasion of the Supernatural. In The Greater Trumps he deals with the Tarot and its religious and supernatural power.
His writing is impassioned, subtle, often powerfully subtle in tone--and sometimes poetic in beauty. His characterisation is more uneven and I don't think that some of his main characters are particularly sympathetic--though he intends them to be so. TGT is the fifth of his seven major novels and the next one, Descent into Hell, is considered his masterpiece, but TGT is well worth reading. Last edited by fantasyfan; 01-10-2013 at 12:52 PM. |
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Brandon Mull, Blake Crouch, M. Night Shyamalan and Dennis Batchelder
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I finished Pines and was blown away by it!! So suspenseful. A great book! And it's going to be a 2014 fox miniseries called Wayward Pines directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Just started Soul Identity by Dennis Batchelder. I downloaded it as a freebie [it still is a freebie] from Amazon over a year ago. I found a website called AuthorGraph where you can request a personalized page of any ebook you have from any registered author. I searched and found Dennis Batchelder, so I requested one from him. Here it is: In his short personal message he thanked me for reading it, so I thought I'd better read it soon, like now! |
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