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Edward Aycock
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Posted: 17 May 2025 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I just finished The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler.  This was the second Tyler I've read in the past year.  She is a very, very good writer but, after two novels, I don't find that I like her characters all that much.   It's not that they're very quirky, it's that they're annoying.  Maybe it's a Baltimore thing (she and John Waters are friendly as well) or maybe I am missing something.  

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Stéphane Garrelie
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Posted: 18 May 2025 at 11:07am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Essentially reading on a loop the two volumes of the Problèmes de linguistique générale by Emile Benveniste. The more familiar i am with it, the better it is. I used to be more familiar with the first volume than the second, so i remedied to that. 

Narrative works:
-Ivanhoe (Walter Scott), an all-time favorite.
-Nadja (André Breton), i don't like what i know of the man, but i like the writer and his books. (The few i read so far.)
-Chessmen of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Also rereading Les Langages de Rabelais, by François Rigolot.

That's a bit of too many books at the same time, it's still OK and manageable but none the less a lack of discipline on my part. I intend to quickly reduce it to one or two books. 



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James Best
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Posted: 31 May 2025 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Now starting DARK SUN: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes.

Published back in 1995, this is basically a sequel to his award-winning book on the making of the atomic bomb, which I read a few years ago and really enjoyed.

My interest in reading the book was kindled by reading a mystery/thriller novel last year that was centered around the Soviets designing, building, and testing the Tsar Bomb back in 1961, which was the most powerful thermo-nuclear (hydrogen) bomb ever detonated (~ 55 megatons).


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John Byrne

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Posted: 31 May 2025 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Excellent choice, James!
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