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JC Kazama
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Joined: May 2017
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Friday, February 19, 2021 11:27 PM | |
I finished The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa today & have started a book I've wanted to read for years, William Gibson's Neuromancer. I read a bit of everything, but love sci fi.
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jlcre2003
Posts: 169
Joined: Jul 2015
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Friday, February 19, 2021 11:55 PM | |
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
clever fella
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jlcre2003
Posts: 169
Joined: Jul 2015
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Friday, February 19, 2021 11:56 PM | |
The Shining...one of the few books that kept me up at night
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capsboy
Posts: 64
Joined: Feb 2012
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Friday, February 19, 2021 11:58 PM | |
I will add Yoko Oawa to my to read list Yes definetly continure with Gibsons necromancer series.
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spazmatastic
Posts: 5,905
Joined: Dec 2014
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 2:13 AM | |
Okay, this thread is gaining ground so I'll put in my 2 cents (or 2 picks). Two of my favorite authors are Anne Rice (who also wrote books under the name Anne Rampling) and Louis L'Amour. Two totally diiferent styles and storylines, but both were great storytellers! Rice did more fantastical stories with vampires and witches and some other seemingly random tales (mainly The Vampire Chronicles and The Witches of Eastwick) . L'Amour did mostly Old West type of stories (mainly the Sackett Series). Both authors entertained me greatly while I was reading their books. I'd recommend all of their books to any avid reader.
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glennchannell
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Joined: Aug 2017
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 3:33 AM | |
Most recent book I've read is a coming of age tale about a child struggling to survive alone in an unfeeling world while he tries to mature and reach his full potential.
It's called the Very Hungry Caterpillar...
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BigDog13
Posts: 208
Joined: Mar 2015
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 3:44 AM | |
I’m currently reading Confess by Rob Halford, the lead singer of Judas Priest. Great read.
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Lugnut80
Posts: 731
Joined: Oct 2017
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 3:57 AM | |
I'm currently reading The Pitcher and the Dictator by Averell Smith. It's about the season Satchel Paige and several other Negro Leaguers spent in the Dominican Republic. It's a fascinating story. Also reading Blood In the Water by Heather Thompson about the 1971 Attica prison uprising. It's a very depressing story. Good luck with your goal!
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sandyrusty
Posts: 4,616
Joined: Dec 2014
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 4:08 AM | |
Canaris by Heinz Hohne.
I've also read in the past good books such as Julius Striecher, Goering, Paulus and Stalingrad, The Memoirs of Field Marshall Kesselring, Dr. Goebbels: His LIfe & Death, Guderian:Creator of Blitskrieg, Hess: The Fuhrer's Disciple, Himmler, Inside the Third Reich, ok, you get the theme. Yes, I also have read many biographies on the Allied side recently finishing the 4 volumes of George Marshall by Pogue (I hate to say it but it was a tough read, should probably have been 2 volumes) before starting on Canaris.
C2Cigars - I still have my whole collection of Hardy Boys and have most of the Nancy Drew books as well. As a teen, I must have read each one at least 5 times over.
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abide
Posts: 412
Joined: Dec 2019
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Saturday, February 20, 2021 4:09 AM | |
Haven't read anything in a year, but before that I was on a 5 year run of about 20-25 per year, so over 100 from 2015-2019.
Was reading from various reading lists, including the 100 best fiction novels, and then I would go off on a tangent.
Tangent example - I reread "Rabbit Run," by John Updike, and then decided to read the whole 4 novel series. "Rabbit Redux" + "Rabbit is Rich" + "RAbbit at Rest."
Tangent example 2 - I read "Slouching Towards Nirvana," a Chareles Bukowski posthumous poetry book, and then read "Ham on Rye," + "Post Office" +"Women" + "Factotum"
If I can recommend one book of the 100+, that others might not have come across, it is "Shalimar the Clown" by Salman Rushdi." Absolutely beautiful writing. Rushdie is much more than "The Satanic Verses" and the Iranian Fatwa against him.
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." - John Wooden
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