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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2020 22:40:20 GMT
500 pages into Tombland. A great read. Its 800 pages long. Just as convincing as a historical novel as it is convincing as a whodunit and why. I bought it just for chance.... That was one of my luckiest chance buys ever!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2020 19:09:18 GMT
Finished Tombland and dived head first into Dissolution by the same author, C.J. Sansom. Its the first in the same series. It was also good. Finished it this afternoon. Now i'm starting Dark Fire which is the second in the series about Matthew Shardlake. I have high hopes!!
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Post by edwardjohn on Nov 12, 2020 19:20:44 GMT
500 pages into Tombland. A great read. Its 800 pages long. Just as convincing as a historical novel as it is convincing as a whodunit and why. I bought it just for chance.... That was one of my luckiest chance buys ever!! Have you read any Bernard Cromwell, Kurben?
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Post by mary on Nov 13, 2020 5:52:47 GMT
Hi Tet, I usually read fiction "who done it's". Yesterday I read a non-fiction memoir by Joseph McMoneagle who was an Intelligence NCO and officer in the US Army. He was recruited from within for a special operation which involved remote viewing. Remote viewing is described as a human ability to produce information about a targeted object, person, place or event, while being completely isolated from the target by space, time and other forms of shielding. This took place in the 1970's. I love the "Twilight Zone" type subjects, especially if it really happened. The whole book was interesting. Remember in 1979 when Americans were kidnapped in Tehran, Iran and held in a building. It was TV news for days and before all the cable news stations. The author was one of the team members trying to free the Americans. The title: The Stargate Chronicles. Memoirs of a Psychic Spy.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2020 11:52:02 GMT
500 pages into Tombland. A great read. Its 800 pages long. Just as convincing as a historical novel as it is convincing as a whodunit and why. I bought it just for chance.... That was one of my luckiest chance buys ever!! Have you read any Bernard Cromwell, Kurben? Some. Perhaps 2-3 books. He is, in my opinion, solid but not more.
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Post by mary on Nov 13, 2020 16:22:31 GMT
Have you read any Bernard Cromwell, Kurben? Some. Perhaps 2-3 books. He is, in my opinion, solid but not more. edwardjohn, Is Bernard Cromwell the one who writes about an English King who is almost always using his army to fight battles and one of his fighting leaders is actually a Scot? The time frame is hundreds of years ago. I read 2 or 3 of those, but can't remember the King's name.
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Post by mary on Nov 19, 2020 20:31:55 GMT
This week I read The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult. She makes her books too long but sometimes they have a good story. This was so-so and was about a woman with two lives, one with an Egytologist man digging up a an ancient mummy and the other with a physicist whose job is in Boston. It was a little better than computer solitaire. lol Actually, I really the Freecell game best.
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Post by osnafrank on Nov 19, 2020 20:35:01 GMT
The Green Mile and some Perry Rhodan novels.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2020 23:51:07 GMT
Some. Perhaps 2-3 books. He is, in my opinion, solid but not more. edwardjohn, Is Bernard Cromwell the one who writes about an English King who is almost always using his army to fight battles and one of his fighting leaders is actually a Scot? The time frame is hundreds of years ago. I read 2 or 3 of those, but can't remember the King's name.
The closest i can think of in Cornwells books (yes, that his real name, not Cromwell) is his numerous books from Saxon times (the king at least in the biginning is Alfred the great of Wessex) where the main protagonist is named Uthred. The tv-series the last kingdom is based on these books. He is from Northumbria in northern england (think York of todays england) but is not a scot. But hes also written series from Arthurian times, the Napoleonic wars and during the hundred years war in the 14,th century.
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Post by mary on Nov 22, 2020 20:14:42 GMT
I just finished reading The Night Fire by Michael Connelly. He is easy to read and it's all cops. I like his Bosch character and he also included the Lincoln Lawyer in this story. His stories don't run on too long and he usually gives a good conclusion. You could read this one in two sittings or one long sitting. I also like to read Baldacci stories, but really hoping the "Master" will turn out another UTD type story.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2020 9:45:43 GMT
Finished with Sovereign by C.J. Sansom. Really good historical novel/mystery set in 1541. The lawyer Matthew Shardlake is the, rather unwilling, problemsolver. It is of course difficult to solve problems when the high and mighty, for some reason, doesn't seem to want the problem solved and is more than willing to accept faulty explanations. But Shardlake can be obstinate and has a firm belief that wrongs should be righted which is the reason he became a lawyer. That can be dangerous in Tudor England.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 19:48:42 GMT
Finished The Second Sleep by Robert Harris (it was OK but there was no real connection, for me at least, to the protagonist but the story and the world he created were real interestin) and just started Revelation by Sansom. Its the fourth in his Shardlake series. The others i have read were excellent so i have high hopes.
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Post by muskrat on Nov 26, 2020 2:11:16 GMT
Trying to get myself into the holiday spirit, I dusted off an old chestnut, featuring this priceless line:
If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
Give you one guess what story.
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Post by annamarie on Nov 27, 2020 21:32:29 GMT
Trying to get myself into the holiday spirit, I dusted off an old chestnut, featuring this priceless line:
If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
Give you one guess what story. I don’t actually recognize the line, but it reminds me of Scrooge (Christmas Carol). Or my brother-in-law....but he’s not a character in a book.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2020 22:27:58 GMT
Trying to get myself into the holiday spirit, I dusted off an old chestnut, featuring this priceless line:
If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
Give you one guess what story. I don’t actually recognize the line, but it reminds me of Scrooge (Christmas Carol). Or my brother-in-law....but he’s not a character in a book.You're totally correct, Annamarie! It is Scrooge and A Christmas Carol. Is your brother actually Scrooge like??? I'm more like
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Post by Dizzy on Nov 28, 2020 3:09:42 GMT
I Just Started The Stand By Stephen King again because I Haven't Read it ina Long Times an I Forgot a lot of it. So Should Be Fun to Read again
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Post by annamarie on Nov 28, 2020 4:11:16 GMT
I don’t actually recognize the line, but it reminds me of Scrooge (Christmas Carol). Or my brother-in-law....but he’s not a character in a book. You're totally correct, Annamarie! It is Scrooge and A Christmas Carol. Is your brother actually Scrooge like??? I'm more like Brother-in-law. And no he isn’t really Scrooge-like. But do not tell him I told you that. He growls a lot.
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Post by annamarie on Nov 28, 2020 4:13:27 GMT
I love that book. Are you reading the original release, or the longer (and imo better) rerelease.
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Post by Dizzy on Nov 28, 2020 19:52:46 GMT
On The Cover it Say it is the "Complete an Uncut Edition" so idk if that's what You Mean but its a Really Long Story lol.
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Post by annamarie on Nov 29, 2020 18:36:44 GMT
On The Cover it Say it is the "Complete an Uncut Edition" so idk if that's what You Mean but its a Really Long Story lol. That’s the longer and better version. 👍
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