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Edward Aycock
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| Posted: 24 January 2025 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | 1
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I searched for this thread and am glad to see it's still here. I've been on a kick of reading M.R. James lately. Whew, his stories can get under my skin despite them being over a century old. I live in an unscary Brooklyn corner apartment directly above a busy, noisy intersection yet at night will hear a creak and think, "What's that??" and curse myself for reading him right before bed. Some of those stories are really damn scary. If you want some good tales, I recommend "O, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad", "Count Magnus", "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral", "A School Story", and "Casting the Runes". "Runes" was made into the 1957 film "Curse of the Demon" aka "Night of the Demon".
I am also reading 1988's "Fear Book" by our own JB. I just started it and I am a sucker for a "people move to the suburbs and things happen" story.
Edited by Edward Aycock on 24 January 2025 at 3:45pm
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Matt Reed
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Welcome back, Ed! Nice to see you around these parts again.
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John Popa
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WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix - I've loved a couple of Hendrix's books, been cool to a couple, so far this one is closer to the better category.
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William Costello
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Axiom's End - Lindsay Ellis (A Christmas Gift from our oldest daughter.)
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James Best
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Now in the homestretch of THEN WE TAKE BERLIN (2013) by British novelist John Lawton. I have sampled some of his other mystery novels over the years and enjoyed them so I thought I would give this new series a try.
Only about forty pages left to go and it looks like this new series is off to a terrific start. It is set in the early 1960s in Cold War Berlin but it has a lot of flashbacks to the end of WWII before the blockade & Marshall Plan kicked off. Expect that I will be hunting for the next three novels at my local bookstores and libraries.
Edited by James Best on 25 January 2025 at 3:01am
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Matt Reed
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| Posted: 25 January 2025 at 7:38am | IP Logged | 6
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On the cusp of finishing HOMICIDE: A YEAR ON THE KILLING STREETS, the book that put David Simon on the map. Simon, of course, was the mind behind THE WIRE and this book was the inspiration for the 90’s NBC series of the same name. It was written in the late 80s, so take that for what it is. It’s still an engrossing tale. At 700+ pages, it’s not for everyone, but I think it flys once you meet all the main characters…which takes a minute. Eloquently and beautifully written, it’s an important “moment in time” representation that is just as relevant now as it was in 1990.
Highly recommended.
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Rich Marzullo
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Not A Whole Boy by James Cole, a friend of mine born with a similar birth defect as myself. Tough to read at times just because of how close to home it hits for me. But quite well written and hopeful throughout.
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Joe Franklin
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THE FIREMAN - Joe Hill
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James Best
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Now working my way through LUCKIEST MAN: The Life & Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig.
A few years ago I read OPENING DAY, one of the author's other books about baseball (specifically Jackie Robinson's first year in the majors) and really enjoyed it. But since I am not (and never will be) a fan of the Yankees this Gehrig bio got put on the backburner while I read other baseball books that were on my radar screen.
I'm about a quarter of the way through it and it is an excellent read so far. The book was nominated for both the Seymore Medal and the Casey Award as the Best Baseball Book of 2005, winning the latter.
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