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Shaun Barry
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Posted: 05 April 2018 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply


My other "making of" book about 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY turned out to be a little less substantial than I'd remembered, so I went ahead and ordered:

SPACE ODYSSEY: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece, by Michael Benson [2018]

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Looks to be a much more detailed account... cracking it open tonight!




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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 08 April 2018 at 6:39am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

DIAL D FOR DEADMAN
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Robbie Parry
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Posted: 08 April 2018 at 6:54am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

JUDGE DREDD: THE COMPLETE CASE FILES 14:





This mainly features the "Necropolis" storyline as Dredd and Mega-City One deal with supernatural enemies and Judge Death. A highlight of Dredd's ongoing era! 
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James Best
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Posted: 10 April 2018 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Now sampling the third Easy Rawlins mystery by Walter Mosley. I enjoyed the first two in the series and thought it was time I revisited it.
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James Best
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Posted: 14 April 2018 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Now starting a new thriller series by one of my favorite British writers.
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 14 April 2018 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Just casting my eyes up a few posts and James' mention of Billions and Billions... James, beware of chapter 19 'In the Valley of the Shadow' and the Epilogue.

Those two entries just had me in tears the first, second and third times I read them. They'll wrench your heart out. 


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Fred J Chamberlain
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Posted: 14 April 2018 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Excelsior, the Amazing Life of Stan Lee. Finally reading, after having
purchased it back is 2002.
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James Best
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Posted: 14 April 2018 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Those two entries just had me in tears the first, second and third times I read them. They'll wrench your heart out. 

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Peter, I shed a few tears as well... Mr. Sagan left this mortal coil far too soon. I remember watching COSMOS on TV back when it first aired and then reading the book about a year later. Then when I was sixteen I read BROCA's BRAIN, which further kindled my interest in science. Sagan had a gift of communicating scientific ideas and melding it with history that few writers have ever matched. It is hard to believe he has been gone for over twenty years now.

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Michael Penn
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Posted: 15 April 2018 at 6:27am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History, by Ulrich Raulff 
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Robbie Parry
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Posted: 19 April 2018 at 10:27am | IP Logged | 10 post reply

Better tackle this book, although the title and description on the cover seems a tad unwieldy and cumbersome (not exactly eye-catching):


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James Best
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Posted: 20 April 2018 at 8:55am | IP Logged | 11 post reply

Now starting the latest in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child... After this I am going to the library to track down some non-fiction material :-) 
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Wallace Sellars
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I’m rereading Joe R. Lansdale’s MUCHO MOJO.
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