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Brian Floyd
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Just finished The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek, by Rhett McLaughlin & Link Neal.
Next up is either Razzmatazz by Christopher Moore or Grim Reaper by Steve Altern. I haven't decided which I'm in the mood for yet.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 11 December 2024 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | 2
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GOD - AN ANATOMY by Francesca StavrakopoulouA lengthy exploration of the evolution of what we think of as the Christian God, from but one among a pantheon, and from a very corporeal being into the very noncorporeal entity worshipped today.
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Michael Penn
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I love that her last name translates as "child of the Cross."
This is a worthwhile watch.
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James Best
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| Posted: 11 December 2024 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | 4
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Now about halfway through BLACK SUN by Owen Matthews, a murder mystery novel set in the real-world secret city of Arzamas (now Sarov) in Russia in October 1961. The scientists who lived there designed, built, and tested what is known as the Tsar Bomb, the most powerful thermonuclear device ever detonated (50 - 58 megatons).
It's been a good read so far. And it sort of makes me want to read DARK SUN by Richard Rhodes which covers the history of how the hydrogen bomb was developed.
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Peter Hicks
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| Posted: 11 December 2024 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | 5
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Just started the classic All Quiet On The Western Front, and I can immediately see why Hitler banned it before starting WWII.
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Joe Smith
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| Posted: 11 December 2024 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | 6
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Almost finished with ENTRANCES AND EXITS by Michael Richards.
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Wallace Sellars
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THE WHISPERING ROOM by Dean Koontz
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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 21 December 2024 at 1:38pm | IP Logged | 8
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Starting AIRFRAME by Michael Crichton.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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I read a lot of Discworld books in 2024. To paraphrase Pratchett, they filled a hole in my life I never even knew I had. I believe Terry Pratchett’s general outlook on people is spot on, and I find his stories have had a significant impact on my own personal life philosophy. In many ways, he reminds me of writers like Twain and Vonnegut.
My wife has been reading Katherine Rundell. I’d strongly recommend Impossible Creatures to anyone reading this - Rundell’s use of language is stellar and inspirational.
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Peter Martin
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Doug Centers wrote:
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That book accompanied me in 1999 when I went from London to Australia via Japan. The flight left on a Sunday night, included an 8 hour stop in Osaka, a change in Brisbane, and I got to Sydney on Tuesday morning. My entertainment on the flights was that novel, the then-current issue of Q magazine and a mini-disc version of The Man Who by Travis.
Here's also a bizarre thing: unless my memory is faulty (and I don't think it is on this matter), the only in-flight entertainment provided by JAL for the flight to Osaka was projecting a movie on to one moderately-sized screen for everyone and that movie was 'The Dish'. Now, online sources say that film is a 2000 Australian film. But I definitely saw it on that flight in November 1999.
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James Best
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Now starting SHADOW PASS (2011) by Sam Eastland (pen name of novelist Paul Watkins), the second novel in his mystery series featuring Inspector Pekkala, who was the special investigator for Tsar Nicholas II prior to the Russian Revolution only to be released from the gulag in order to work in the same capacity for Joseph Stalin.
The first book in the series dealt with Pekkala looking into the execution of the Romanovs in the basement of the Ipatiev house in the town of Yekaterinburg. This second book is linked to the development of the T-34 battle tank, which became the work horse for the Red Army during WWII.
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