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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 29, 2018 16:31:59 GMT -5
Here's one I picked up, in gloriously leatherbound hardcover, at Costco of all places.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 2, 2018 15:08:22 GMT -5
Got some lite TC reading for the monthly challenge with my group. The required subject was "gangs," a subject I find pretty dull, but this was a different take on it:
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Apr 3, 2018 5:06:25 GMT -5
Another thread I kept meaning to start and kept putting off. I was going to call it 'Mr. Bookman Is Out on a Case'.
Completely on impulse, I have been making my way through a whole bunch of Graham Greene. So far I've read The Human Factor, The Honorary Consul, and A Burnt-Out Case, I'm halfway through The Captain and the Enemy, and I have The Power and the Glory, A World of My Own and Our Man in Havana in the house. Not hard to see why he's so highly thought of. Very smart writing and yet very easy reading as well. If I didn't know going in that he was a practicing Catholic, I might have guessed that he was at least agnostic. What I've read so far doesn't paint a very flattering picture of the religion. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 6, 2018 17:05:42 GMT -5
Currently in the middle of both
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 12, 2018 21:58:54 GMT -5
Another thread I kept meaning to start and kept putting off. I was going to call it 'Mr. Bookman Is Out on a Case'.
Completely on impulse, I have been making my way through a whole bunch of Graham Greene. So far I've read The Human Factor, The Honorary Consul, and A Burnt-Out Case, I'm halfway through The Captain and the Enemy, and I have The Power and the Glory, A World of My Own and Our Man in Havana in the house. Not hard to see why he's so highly thought of. Very smart writing and yet very easy reading as well. If I didn't know going in that he was a practicing Catholic, I might have guessed that he was at least agnostic. What I've read so far doesn't paint a very flattering picture of the religion. and The Quiet American are periodic re-reads for me. |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 12, 2018 21:59:49 GMT -5
Curious. Has anybody here read Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun tetrarchy?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 13, 2018 16:31:48 GMT -5
Never heard of it, sorry!
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Post by Deeky on Apr 14, 2018 18:20:40 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 17, 2018 11:59:34 GMT -5
An interesting true crime case. The man on the cover -- born Eugenia Falleni but passing as Eugene Falleni -- was tried for killing his first wife.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 17, 2018 12:30:40 GMT -5
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Apr 18, 2018 5:18:45 GMT -5
"50 Shades of Grey is to literature what candy corn is to vegetables."- Bill Maher
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 18, 2018 16:30:15 GMT -5
I finally caught some of James Comey's interview with Stephen Colbert, and after initially deciding I wasn't willing to read another single word about the Great Pumpkin, decided I wanted to read his memoir, just because he comes across as a voice of reason amid all the nuttiness.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 19, 2018 1:26:00 GMT -5
I am seriously (finally) considering getting a subscription to this fine magazine. It feels like a fair chunk of change, but I've really enjoyed the issues I've picked up through the book dealers here. Problem is, they sometimes seem to carry it, and sometimes seems they don't. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 26, 2018 11:24:54 GMT -5
Not the true crime fan that Goldfish is, but this one is on my radar:  |
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Post by Deeky on Apr 26, 2018 11:42:19 GMT -5
Especially after yesterday's news.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 26, 2018 12:14:37 GMT -5
Betcha folks think twice about laughing off that grumpy neighbor who yells "Keep your damn dog out of my flowerbeds!" from now on.   |
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Post by Deeky on Apr 26, 2018 12:47:13 GMT -5
There is legit nothing scarier than an old white man.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 26, 2018 18:26:00 GMT -5
Not the true crime fan that Goldfish is, but this one is on my radar: I downloaded it to my Kindle Fire and started reading it an hour after they announced the capture of that bastidge. The tripleheader of catching the East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker and Golden State Killer all at once appear to have turned into a quadrupleheader. They think he may also be the Visalia Ransacker. Christ, did the guy ever sleep??? |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 26, 2018 18:39:20 GMT -5
There is legit nothing scarier than an old white man. 
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 26, 2018 20:52:42 GMT -5
There is legit nothing scarier than an old white man. Amen. |
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