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John Byrne
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Started Asimov's FOUNDATION trilogy (single volume edition). Probably the fourth time since I first read it in high school. Revisiting Asimov I find he has a taste for big dates -- these stories are set some 10,000 years in the Future -- without the accompanying technology. His vehicles and the like seem more appropriate to a few centuries hence, rather than a few millennia.
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Robbie Parry
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Revisiting Asimov I find he has a taste for big dates -- these stories are set some 10,000 years in the Future -- without the accompanying technology. His vehicles and the like seem more appropriate to a few centuries hence, rather than a few millennia.
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This is sort of why I prefer vague or unspecified dates in sci-fi (sometimes!).
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Peter Hicks
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After reading the first Foundation book, I had zero desire to read anymore.
I am currently reading I, Robot. There is some interesting stuff, but all the characters talk like clichéd figures out of 1950s movies. I guess everything is a product of its time.
Also reading:
These Are the Voyages, Season 3
Beatles Anthology
The Pythons: Autobiography
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William Costello
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Hillbilly Elegy - J. D. Vance
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James Best
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| Posted: 20 January 2018 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | 5
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Now starting:
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Ed Aycock
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Had a disappointing start to the year so far
The much blurbed new thriller "The Woman in the Window" by A.J. Finn which again proves that blurbs are not worth the money they are printed upon. And I need to stop reading books that are still riding the Gillian Flynn wave. (For the record, I liked "Gone Girl" and liked the "Vertigo"-style twist of having the mystery break in two midway.) "Window" one is a screenplay in novel form, right with a villain who explains every last detail of their plan.
After that, "Eileen" by Otessa Mosfegh that drew praise and awards and I honestly have no idea why.
Now am reading "The Beguiled" by Thomas Cullinan. I have not seen either film adaptation yet so am going into it with a fresh pair of eyes.
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Robbie Parry
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Reading this:
Learning a lot, including whether "Union Flag" or "Union Jack" is the appropriate terminology, what to refer to the flag as depending on context, etc.
The first chapter was about the US flag; the second chapter covered the Union Flag; and now I am at chapter 3, the EU flag.
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James Best
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Continuing the trend...
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Shane Matlock
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Reading this for the first time after recently purchasing it at Ollie's Bargain Store and enjoying it quite a bit.
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Wallace Sellars
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THE FANGS OF FREELANCE
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Brian Miller
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I got that one, too, Shane!
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Robbie Parry
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Second-hand bookstore in the market had this, I can't wait to get stuck in:
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