New Kindle book: I'm re-reading the anonymously-written [I]Beowulf[/I] (8th century) almost 40 years ago after I first read it.
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New Kindle book: I'm re-reading the anonymously-written [I]Beowulf[/I] (8th century) almost 40 years ago after I first read it.
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[B][U]Lady, Lady, I Did It![/U][/B] by Ed McBain
<[I]87th Precinct[/I] series>
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[B][U]The Empty Hours[/U][/B] by Ed McBain
<[I]87th Precinct[/I] series>
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Washington Black - Collapsed in the final third, but otherwise a good story. Shame it fell apart.
On my Kindle, now reading [I]The Bandbox[/I] (1912) by Louis Joseph Vance.
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I've only read one 87th Precinct novel, but I loved it and intend to read more eventually.
Re-reading Moby Dick. Always loved the humor in that book.
[QUOTE=Starter Set;4362691]Re-reading Moby Dick. Always loved the humor in that book.[/quote]I was suppose to read [B][I][U]Billy Budd[/U][/I][/B] back in 9th grade English.[SIZE=1] (I only sorta half-read it.)[/SIZE]
Never had any desire to try anything else from Melville ever again.
[QUOTE=Starter Set;4362691]Re-reading Moby Dick. Always loved the humor in that book.[/QUOTE]
I agree. You wouldn't think so if you only saw one of the films based on it, but Melville did put a few jokes in there.
[QUOTE=FluffySheep;4322583]I've just started reading Bram Stoker's Dracula.[/QUOTE]
I have also just picked this up. I was surprised to learn that (at least for the beginning) it uses the story-telling technique of a journal. Changes the story a bit, I think.
[QUOTE=Starter Set;4362691]Re-reading Moby Dick. Always loved the humor in that book.[/QUOTE]
I tried doing it by audio book a few years ago. Made it about 6 hrs into the 30 or so hrs it was and they still hadn't introduced Ahab or even gotten onto a boat. I was so bored and gave up.
I'm kinda grateful though that I tried because I'd been on a kick back then that for every "fluff" book I read I'd try to do one classic I'd never read before. Moby Dick made me realize how stupid that idea was and now I just read stuff I enjoy and avoid so called classic altogether.
I just finished the Star Trek The Next Generation novel [I][U]Takedown[/U][/I] by John Jackson Miller.
[QUOTE=TriggerWarning;4363277]I tried doing it by audio book a few years ago. Made it about 6 hrs into the 30 or so hrs it was and they still hadn't introduced Ahab or even gotten onto a boat. I was so bored and gave up.
I'm kinda grateful though that I tried because I'd been on a kick back then that for every "fluff" book I read I'd try to do one classic I'd never read before. Moby Dick made me realize how stupid that idea was and now I just read stuff I enjoy and avoid so called classic altogether.[/QUOTE]
Well, you know what Mark Twain said about classics: "A classic is a book that everyone talks about but no one has ever read."
Finally getting to read [I]Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty[/I] (2015) by Charles Leerhsen, which shows The Georgia Peach [B]wasn't[/B] the racist psychopath we have been saddled with for close to 60 years. Maybe not to the point of Lucretia Borgia, but not many people have received the character assassination Cobb has had since his death. Hopefully this book changes that.
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Just about to start reading [U]Duma Key[/U] by Stephen King.