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Post by Dizzy on Nov 29, 2020 19:02:09 GMT
Yay!!! That's Great to Hear annamarie Thanks for Telling Me 
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Post by kurben on Nov 29, 2020 23:00:50 GMT
Finished Revelation by C.J. Sansom. Great Historical novel/mystery set in Tudor England (about 1540). Also finished Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay. Good thriller as long as you arent planning to take a ride in an elevator sometime soon.....
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Post by wayoftheredpanda on Dec 2, 2020 17:14:33 GMT
I just finished "Batman: The Long Halloween". Pretty good comic miniseries. Surprisingly a quick read for a book that looks decently thick on the outside. But of course, with it being a comic book that's also not as text or panel heavy as Watchmen was, there are a lot of panels with little to no text that display the events just as well as words do.
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Post by kurben on Dec 2, 2020 17:25:50 GMT
Finished Recursion by Blake Crouch. Written in his usual break neck speed. Here am i not sure if he hasn't done himself a disfavor. Explanations to why things happen slows the pace, agreed, but sometimes they are necessary. Here i think he should have just a tad more of that. A good read though.
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Post by muskrat on Dec 7, 2020 0:22:27 GMT
Savage Avengers #4...
Finally broke down and checked an issue out. This is a Disney—ahem—Marvel comic featuring Wolverine, Electra, Dr.Voodoo, Venom, Punisher, and...choke...Conan the Barbarian. Blasphemy or no, my inner geek had to check out at least ONE issue. This one featured Conan and Punisher leaving the Savage Land and venturing across Anarctica to civilization. That’s it. A one dump comic. In the time it takes to take one dump you can read this fragment of a ‘story’.
Worst part? Not one mention of Robert E. Howard’s Name.
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Post by wolf on Dec 7, 2020 1:23:09 GMT
Savage Avengers #4...
Finally broke down and checked an issue out. This is a Disney—ahem—Marvel comic featuring Wolverine, Electra, Dr.Voodoo, Venom, Punisher, and...choke...Conan the Barbarian. Blasphemy or no, my inner geek had to check out at least ONE issue. This one featured Conan and Punisher leaving the Savage Land and venturing across Anarctica to civilization. That’s it. A one dump comic. In the time it takes to take one dump you can read this fragment of a ‘story’.
Worst part? Not one mention of Robert E. Howard’s Name.
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Post by Tanith on Dec 7, 2020 13:10:01 GMT
At the moment... Steelheart, by Brandon Sanderson. I'm waiting for a couple of holds to come in at my library (one of them a SK rarity I didn't even know about until recently), and I wanted to start reading this guy's work. I listen to his "Writing Excuses" podcast and get quite a lot out of it. Steelheart is pretty engaging, so far. It's a YA book, but one of the perks of library work is that I can stroll around with a Dr. Seuss book under my arm and if somebody questions it, I can say I'm doing research.  |
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Post by kurben on Dec 8, 2020 0:31:22 GMT
 Big and small kingdoms of europe that has fallen and many are totally or only half forgotten. Sabaudia, Galicia, Aragon, Burgundy, Tolosan kingdom, and so on. Many interesting things in it and 800 pages long!! |
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Post by Anthony on Dec 8, 2020 3:00:38 GMT
Bit of a long shot but has anyone read Carnival of Shadows by R.J Ellory? I remember picking it up over a year ago because I was drawn to the cover and it has a carnival setting, and found it in a box yesterday, ha ha. I'm tempted to start it, its been a while since I've read a new (to me) novel.
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Post by mary on Dec 8, 2020 5:04:19 GMT
Our library is closed because of Covid. Looking at the home shelf and found Deliverance by James Dickey. Never read that one so decided to give it a try. What a WASTE OF TIME!!!! After reading tons of SK and other good writers, I realize you really can spot bad writing. If you printed all the dialogue in that book, i bet it wouldn't cover two pages.
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Post by morgan on Dec 8, 2020 6:05:29 GMT
Finished Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Quick, easy read. Dragged a bit in the middle, but overall a nice dip in escapism.
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Post by arcadevere on Dec 10, 2020 14:55:07 GMT
friend asked me what i am reading, told him i'm re-reading Rogue Lawyer (Grisham). idk why but i always think Atty Rudd (the MC) was actually Grisham's best main character. he's just based and badass. definitely my fave Grisham MC
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Post by kurben on Dec 10, 2020 17:56:53 GMT
Finished Heartstone by C.J. Sansom and started Lamentation by the same author. Part of his Shardlake series. Very good historical mystery/novel taking place in 1546 when Henry VIII is struggling to stay alive and the different factions of the court are preparing for a fight over who is to be the boss during the young 8.year old King Edward VI. In all this political intrigue a murder takes place. Noone important but it has to be solved and the perpetrator is likely to be someone important. Shardlake must tread carefully.
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Post by edwardjohn on Dec 10, 2020 18:57:20 GMT
Some. Perhaps 2-3 books. He is, in my opinion, solid but not more.
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Post by edwardjohn on Dec 11, 2020 13:09:03 GMT
I just finished "Batman: The Long Halloween". Pretty good comic miniseries. Surprisingly a quick read for a book that looks decently thick on the outside. But of course, with it being a comic book that's also not as text or panel heavy as Watchmen was, there are a lot of panels with little to no text that display the events just as well as words do. |
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Post by edwardjohn on Dec 11, 2020 13:10:44 GMT
Some. Perhaps 2-3 books. He is, in my opinion, solid but not more.
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Post by edwardjohn on Dec 12, 2020 2:47:56 GMT
wayoftheredpanda
Panda, check out Batman: Hush, there is an animated movie version as well, its another Loeb Batman book.
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Post by edwardjohn on Dec 12, 2020 2:52:33 GMT
Savage Avengers #4...
Finally broke down and checked an issue out. This is a Disney—ahem—Marvel comic featuring Wolverine, Electra, Dr.Voodoo, Venom, Punisher, and...choke...Conan the Barbarian. Blasphemy or no, my inner geek had to check out at least ONE issue. This one featured Conan and Punisher leaving the Savage Land and venturing across Anarctica to civilization. That’s it. A one dump comic. In the time it takes to take one dump you can read this fragment of a ‘story’.
Worst part? Not one mention of Robert E. Howard’s Name.
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Post by muskrat on Dec 12, 2020 3:14:51 GMT
Been diggin an early 90s DC/Vertigo comic called Sandman Mystery Theatre (snagged issues one thru eight from the fiddy cent box at the geek shop). No, this isn’t anything to do with Vertigo’s legendary Neil Gaimen Sandman, but it’s just as cool—1930s pulpish masked-man noir crime stuff well worth the four bones I spent on em.
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Post by edwardjohn on Dec 12, 2020 3:39:31 GMT
Savage Avengers #4...
Finally broke down and checked an issue out. This is a Disney—ahem—Marvel comic featuring Wolverine, Electra, Dr.Voodoo, Venom, Punisher, and...choke...Conan the Barbarian. Blasphemy or no, my inner geek had to check out at least ONE issue. This one featured Conan and Punisher leaving the Savage Land and venturing across Anarctica to civilization. That’s it. A one dump comic. In the time it takes to take one dump you can read this fragment of a ‘story’.
Worst part? Not one mention of Robert E. Howard’s Name.
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