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Post by osnafrank on May 28, 2020 16:19:17 GMT
I started reading Splinter Cell by Tom Clancy (yet written by a completely different guy - sigh). Realized quickly that it's definitely not my thing.
Started All By Myself, Alone by Mary Higgins Clark. We shall see...
I know a lot of people love his work but i don`t.
Clive Cussler is even worse..Gaaawd. 
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Post by edwardjohn on May 28, 2020 23:43:17 GMT
I started reading Splinter Cell by Tom Clancy (yet written by a completely different guy - sigh). Realized quickly that it's definitely not my thing.
Started All By Myself, Alone by Mary Higgins Clark. We shall see... |
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Post by edwardjohn on May 29, 2020 1:16:53 GMT
Excellent interview. Brilliant
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Post by neesy on Jun 1, 2020 22:11:00 GMT
I'm starting Four Past Midnight for our discussion group on the SKMB. First up is The Langoliers for next Wed. Join us next Wed if you like.
Thanks for that heads up - I am not sure if I own this book but apparently a few of our libraries are starting to open again at last! Yay!
I was just at WallyMart and got a copy of "If It Bleeds" so I might start that one soon.
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Post by muskrat on Jun 8, 2020 20:11:30 GMT
The Life and Art of Lemmon Spreading Jefferson: part IV, gGCclooOOMmmss, (as in Coming Of The) episode 1B, Breath Of The Inhibitors; or, How Willie Went Home Again
No...wait, not that one. Hang on, it's here somewhere...Right:
Mosquito Bridge ; True Stories of the Hawkins' Fourth Brigade at Nantuck
As told by Foster Holme, from seventy-two hours of authentic interview transcripts.
"Perhaps the finest piece of war documentation since Ugene Liston's epochal sensation, Left Turn To Right (copyright 1935, Harcourt), nay, even better. Slice off your eyelids and ingest massive quantities of amphetamine, you'll wanna read all 2400 pages in a single setting..."--Vladimir Miraculous, Diller's Dime
"Having served under Hawkins' cruel command four six ghastly years, let me assure you, every word is a god's gift to the Christian Reading Coaltion and a balm upon chaffed inner thighs..."--Sgt. S.S. Reere, ret.
But when the listing beams hold unbewailed their gait, their wait has come to pass
The gate at last has opened upon a lawn of shaven hair
Shares divided and distributed, contributing illusions, confusion to the bleary eye and widening Heaven's gape
Tape a baboon's blue behind and wind another watch, my crotch a'crawl with mulberry lice twice the size of fleas, from knees to naval terrorizing my irritated nerves
Serves me right, sir knight, you were right of course
--Pistol Pete and his Heat Packing Crew
1972
All Rights Refused
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Post by Steffen on Jun 15, 2020 20:26:47 GMT
A legend takes his retirement.
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Post by morgan on Jun 17, 2020 1:03:41 GMT
Think I'm going to start Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris. I've read Hannibal twice, but not the other three. I don't own Red Dragon, so I won't be reading in chronological order. Already messed that up by starting with the last one first. 
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Post by muskrat on Jun 17, 2020 17:30:09 GMT
Swamp Thing Bronze Age Omnibus vol.1, re-presenting all 24 issues of the muckman’s original series, 1-19 of the second series, and Saga of the Swamp Thing annual #1 (an adaption of the Wes Craven flick), all in one massive, 700+paged hardback. Basically everything up to Alan Moore’s brilliant run on the character. Long live the late, great Berni Wrightson!
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Post by Wicked Esther on Jun 17, 2020 19:55:10 GMT
Jeez...I just quickly scrolled through this thread and found about a million books I’d like to read.
Lately I’ve developed a weird fascination with old paperback mysteries— the kind with the pages that have bright colored edges.
They’re usually fairly short books and don’t require any deep thought, just fun stuff.
The one I’m reading now is Easy to Kill by Agatha Christie...which is also “Easy to Read” 😁. Could probably read the whole thing in 4 hours if I could sit still that long.
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Post by Wicked Esther on Jun 24, 2020 19:56:05 GMT
This is a multi-purpose post to show you what I just finished reading, which also happens to have a nice retro cover. And behold...my beloved Spock bookmark that one of my kids gave me for Christmas decades ago.🖖❤️ Attachment Deleted |
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Post by Anthony on Jun 25, 2020 21:52:46 GMT
I'm still reading if it bleeds. I've not read much over the past few weeks with returning to work and now playing the last of us 2
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Post by Anthony on Jun 25, 2020 21:59:25 GMT
This is a multi-purpose post to show you what I just finished reading, which also happens to have a nice retro cover. And behold...my beloved Spock bookmark that one of my kids gave me for Christmas decades ago.🖖❤️ View Attachment
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Post by Wicked Esther on Jun 25, 2020 22:15:44 GMT
This is a multi-purpose post to show you what I just finished reading, which also happens to have a nice retro cover. And behold...my beloved Spock bookmark that one of my kids gave me for Christmas decades ago.🖖❤️
Nice! I love it! Yeah, I have a habit of just picking up anything that's laying around and using it for a bookmark-- pieces of mail, gum wrappers, gift cards, etc.... Just recently I picked up a book I started months ago but didn't finish (I do that with non-fiction) . I found a credit slip for 15 bucks from a used bookstore, which I was using as a bookmark, apparently. smilie_girl_freude |
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Post by morgan on Jun 26, 2020 6:26:48 GMT
Hope your book credit is still redeemable and you can score some good reads Wicked Esther ! 
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Post by Wicked Esther on Jun 26, 2020 14:29:28 GMT
Hope your book credit is still redeemable and you can score some good reads Wicked Esther ! Thanks, I hope so, too! Plus I have about 20 more books to trade in,so maybe they’ll take some of those off my hands. |
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Post by muskrat on Jun 30, 2020 1:01:03 GMT
Jeeze...trying to get into reading. Anything. Caught an early batch of West Coast Avengers outta the fifty cent/10 for $3.50 box coupla days ago. Typically nifty Steve Englehart scripts—god awful Al Migrom pencils, ugh, like something drawn for kids coloring books, even the great inker Joe Sinnot cannot brush this crap into shape. But a decent coupla mindless newsprint hours.
Othern that, well...another re-read of Chandler ‘bout the only lit that’ll crack a smile on my lips these days. Big Sleep again, yeesh. Why not?
Can’t write a damn word right now. Nor draw. Doggone spineless little muse I have, she runs and hides at the first hint of trouble. Which sucks, because, hey, folks like me gotta scribble something during such times. But no, little miss muse gone poked her head in the sand. Typical.
Now what? More wine and old movies? Whew, half pickled myself last few days. Sweating it out all day.
Okay, we’re all caught up.
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Post by morgan on Jul 1, 2020 20:15:42 GMT
Still muddling through the Mary Higgins-Clark book. Might just give up on it for now. Haven't decided whether to read Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris or Intensity by Dean Koontz next. Going to try to read Snapshot (in Strange Weather) by Joe Hill for the discussion group first. I know I started to read it a while ago. Not sure if I finished.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2020 20:30:27 GMT
Jeez...I just quickly scrolled through this thread and found about a million books I’d like to read. Lately I’ve developed a weird fascination with old paperback mysteries— the kind with the pages that have bright colored edges. They’re usually fairly short books and don’t require any deep thought, just fun stuff. The one I’m reading now is Easy to Kill by Agatha Christie...which is also “Easy to Read” 😁. Could probably read the whole thing in 4 hours if I could sit still that long. That must be a US-title.... Or am i wrong? I remember Christies Murder is Easy but in those days titles often got changed between The UK and the US for some reason. Only made it confusing for the readers i think. Is it Murder is Easy?? Just wondering. |
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Post by Wicked Esther on Jul 1, 2020 20:34:45 GMT
Jeez...I just quickly scrolled through this thread and found about a million books I’d like to read. Lately I’ve developed a weird fascination with old paperback mysteries— the kind with the pages that have bright colored edges. They’re usually fairly short books and don’t require any deep thought, just fun stuff. The one I’m reading now is Easy to Kill by Agatha Christie...which is also “Easy to Read” 😁. Could probably read the whole thing in 4 hours if I could sit still that long. That must be a US-title.... Or am i wrong? I remember Christies Murder is Easy but in those days titles often got changed between The UK and the US for some reason. Only made it confusing for the readers i think. Is it Murder is Easy?? Just wondering. You're right! Somewhere on this forum, I posted a picture of the book cover because it's got some interesting artwork, and the original British title is in teeny tiny letters.  |
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Post by Wicked Esther on Jul 2, 2020 15:48:17 GMT
I could have sworn I had a copy of Duma Key and I was all excited to read that next, but I can’t find it anywhere.😩 So help me out, guys...pick one of these for me, please. I’ve never read anything by Dean Koontz before. I’m leaning toward The Husband, mainly because it has larger type and my eyeballs are tired. Attachment Deleted |
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