New books for this week: The Boys in the Boat (2013) by Daniel James Brown.
For the Kindle, it's The Trail of the White Mule (1922) by B. M. Bower, the sequel to Casey Ryan (which I read a few weeks ago).
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03-22-2021, 05:27 AM #2926DC/Collected Editions Mod
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03-22-2021, 10:27 AM #2927BANNED
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The Long Walk, by Stephen King.
Hot damn, that sure was a short and very interesting read. Expecially impressing if really, as he claims, it was the first novel he ever wrote when he was something like 19 or 20.
Edit : kinda shows that **** ending is sadly nothing new with King though lol. Even back then already...even back then...Last edited by Starter Set; 03-22-2021 at 11:31 AM.
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03-22-2021, 09:30 PM #2928Astonishing Member
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Just finished the Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. Now I love the short story format!
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03-25-2021, 10:49 AM #2929DC/Collected Editions Mod
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Now reading on my Kindle Golden Fool (2003), the second volume from the Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb.
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03-25-2021, 11:57 AM #2930BANNED
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My favorite trilogy of Arthurian myths, Chretien de Troyes (the knight of the cart and other texts), Mallory (le Morte d'Arthur) and White. (the Once and Future King)
What can i say? I love me some classics sometimes.
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03-26-2021, 04:41 PM #2931Ultimate Member
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Authors Beverly Cleary and Larry McMurtry passed away today.
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"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
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03-30-2021, 12:53 AM #2932Fantastic Member
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Reading Dune again after years. I remember not liking it the first time, but I'm really enjoying it this time. I think because I know some more background on everything after seeing a bunch of youtube videos.
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03-30-2021, 11:22 AM #2933DC/Collected Editions Mod
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New book: [I]The Creators[: A History of Heroes of the Imagination/I] (1192) by Daniel J. Boorstin.
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04-01-2021, 08:41 PM #2934Astonishing Member
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Just wanted to let y'all know that my favorite author, Ernest Hemingway, will be featured in a multi-part PBS documentary starting on April 5, 2021. This one was produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. My favorite Hemingway novels are A Farewell to Arms and the Sun Also Rises.
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04-02-2021, 05:08 AM #2935DC/Collected Editions Mod
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I read those two, plus To Have and Have Not and all of his short stories, but I think I like The Old Man and the Sea the best.
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04-02-2021, 07:35 AM #2936Uncanny Member
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I hated reading Hemingway when I had to in a high school English class. However, when I read one of his books in a college English course, it was much more enjoyable. Go figure. Originally Posted by Albert1981
Also visited Hemingway's house in Key Largo, Florida when I was down that way on vacation back in October of 1989. (I was driving at night down through the Florida Keys when the California earthquake struck just before Game Three of the World Series was to be played at Candlestick Park, and I was having a hell of a time trying to get news in English on the rental car's radio. What few stations that did come through without too much static seemed to be in Spanish.)
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Just read The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums, both written by Jack Kerouac
I'm currently reading Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë"The Batman is Gotham City. I will watch him. Study him. And when I know him and why he does not kill, I will know this city. And then Gotham will be MINE!"-BANE
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04-02-2021, 04:37 PM #2938Ultimate Member
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I was pretty surprised and giddy to find out that pull quotes from reviews I wrote for a couple of books were used in said books.
The legal thriller BY WAY OF SORROW by Robyn Gigl saw the publisher use a small quote in an industry trade ad, then use a longer quote in their official press release and on the various order pages on sites like Barnes and Noble. Then on Tuesday, I saw that the longer quote made the back cover of the hardcover edition.
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Then today I discovered that the paperback edition of the Matthew Quirk thriller HOUR OF THE ASSASSIN, which was published in January of this year, used a quote of mine inside the book.
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04-03-2021, 12:34 PM #2939Mighty Member
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Jane Eyre is currently in my active 'to be read' pile. Have you read any other Bronte? Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) is one of my favourite novels. Originally Posted by Chubistian
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04-03-2021, 01:22 PM #2940Uncanny Member
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I enjoyed the semaphore version. Originally Posted by Enigma
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