11-20-2013, 10:13 AM | #18166 |
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I have finished Isaac Asimov's Caliban by Roger MacBride allen. It reads nicely as an Asimovian type of mystery set in the Settler/Spacer Cosmos and plays with the Tree Laws concept of Asimov. Allen does write in a similar style to IA, even to the point of some of the odd futuristic names.
It was enjoyable for the most part but there were certain sections where the action of the plot stalled while Allen filled in pages of expository material. I feel that all that exposition could have been handled more elegantly. There are two more novels in the series which might be worth taking a look at. |
11-20-2013, 10:48 AM | #18167 |
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I'm still reading William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, just past the point when Mussolini has fallen from power. There's a paradoxical feeling of having read a lot yet at the same time having rushed through World War II.
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11-20-2013, 11:15 AM | #18168 |
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Yes, any general book on WW2 is going to feel like the Readers Digest condensed version
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11-20-2013, 04:01 PM | #18169 |
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Done with World After. Really liked it.
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11-21-2013, 02:19 AM | #18170 |
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Just finished A House In The Sky by Amanda Lindhout, a girl who loves to travel. When she is starting out as a journalist, meeting up again with her ex-boyfriend photo journalist Nigel Brennan, they both were kidnapped just after they arrived in Somalia and held hostage for 15 months. Amanda has been tortured, raped, starved but Nigel was treated better since he is a man. After reading I did some research. They are not in touch together at all. Nigel wrote his side of the story.
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11-21-2013, 01:36 PM | #18172 |
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Currently reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
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11-21-2013, 03:33 PM | #18173 |
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Finished World After yesterday, which was excellent, although it didn't quite grab me the way I've been hoping. It's one of those cases where a book has nearly everything I want in it, and yet some final element of chemistry is missing.
Today I picked up Bruno, Chief of Police ... made it only ~15% into it for now. Maybe I'll be more in a mood for it tomorrow. I'm struggling a bit with the writing style, but I assume it's a case of getting used to it. |
11-21-2013, 08:34 PM | #18174 |
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Started reading Best Little Stories from the Civil War by C. Brian Kelly. I've been reading books of the history of the Civil War and decided to get a more personal touch.
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11-21-2013, 10:40 PM | #18175 |
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Cryptonomicon took me too long to be able to finish the book club read in time to discuss it, so I read the short story Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia by Rachel Swirsky which was nominated for a Nebula Award this year and available free on Tor.com.
It was much better than I thought from the blurb I had read and ended up really enjoying it. |
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11-22-2013, 06:28 AM | #18177 |
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Finished "Seeress of Kell", the 5th and final book in David Edding's "Mallorean" fantasy series. Wonderful story, and as always I finished it with a tear in my eye. Superb.
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11-22-2013, 07:21 AM | #18178 |
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Almost finished with Doris Lessing's "Memoirs of a Survivor," in Hardback American First Edition.
After that, I'll start with another literary author, one whom I love to read: "October Light," by John Gardner. (Note: Decidedly NOT the other John Gardner, the mystery writer.) Don |
11-22-2013, 08:36 AM | #18179 |
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Dr. Drib, October Light has been on my TBR list for too long. Please let us know what you think about it.
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