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Robbie Parry
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| Posted: 19 October 2016 at 11:14am | IP Logged | 1
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Halfway through this:
Great stuff so far, including facts such as Sam Wannamaker rebuilding the Globe Theatre, and that the name of Shakespeare could be a French distortion of Jacques-Pierre.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 20 October 2016 at 11:31am | IP Logged | 2
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Biting my typing fingers.......
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Thom Price
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| Posted: 24 October 2016 at 1:21pm | IP Logged | 3
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Looking for some Halloween reading, I gave THE AMITYVILLE HORROR a shot. Even approaching it as a work of fiction, I found it unconvincing and silly. Moved onto Richard Matheson's I AM LEGEND, which I've been meaning to read for a while.
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Thom Price
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| Posted: 26 October 2016 at 7:40am | IP Logged | 4
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Stephen King's CARRIE. I wasn't sure if I had read this previously but now that I'm into I know I haven't. I don't recall the differences between the novel and the film.
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John Popa
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Reading a book called 'This Book is Full of Spiders' which I literally bought because the title is funny. It's a sequel to 'John Dies at the End' which I've never read but so far I've never felt like I'm missing something.
It's black comedy/horror and fun so far. The writer is part of the Cracked team and certainly has a flair for comedy in his prose.
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James Best
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| Posted: 26 October 2016 at 11:29am | IP Logged | 6
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Now starting the 20th novel in the Nate Heller mystery series by Max Allan Collins...
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Joe S. Walker
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Bruce Robinson's THEY ALL LOVE JACK. Atrociously written and ill-organised.
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Matt Clouser
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David Brin's "Existence"
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Robbie Parry
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Reading this:
Alastair Campbell was the Press Secretary for Prime Minister Tony Blair. These are his diaries from 1994 to 2003.
I'm struggling. About 240 pages in - and there are over 700 pages. Thing is it's getting repetitive. He's describing the mundane semantics of government, the plotting by the cabinet, etc, etc. All the diary entries are merging into one. Government plans this, cabinet secretary says that, cabinet secretary plots against government, meeting with heads of state, etc. All very tedious.
I like to finish a book, but this is hard.
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Thom Price
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Finished reading Stephen King's CARRIE. I like the (original) movie better than the book; I found the novel to be a narrative muddle that constantly undermined itself. The film told the story in a much more efficient manner.
Onto King's SALEM'S LOT, my favorite of his novels.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 30 October 2016 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | 11
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Just finished Kevin Cook's KITTY GENOVESE. The book tells quite a different story from the one that terrified me in newspapers and on TV in 1964.
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James Best
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| Posted: 30 October 2016 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | 12
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Now starting:
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