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Post by bibboid on Jun 25, 2023 20:21:43 GMT -5
“The Caves of Steel” by Asimov. The first of his Lije Bailey /Daneel Olivaw stories where human and robot detectives join forces to solve crimes. I had not read this one before but it follows Asimov’s basic formula. A little bit of action and a lot of people sitting around talking about what makes robots robots.
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Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 25, 2023 21:32:48 GMT -5
Winter of the World by Ken Follet.
the 2nd generation of 5 families Forrest Gump their way through history.
Onto the 3rd book now and if you've read it, no spoilers, because I really like these Jack and Bobby Kennedy characters who are alive in 1961.
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Post by Hurbster on Jun 26, 2023 5:14:46 GMT -5
Delta Green Players handbook.
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Flo360
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Post by Flo360 on Jun 26, 2023 5:44:30 GMT -5
Since I always read two Books at the same time,
Last Train Book: Wittgenstein: Tractacus (Re-read and mostly prep for finally getting to read Wittgensteins misstress)
Home Book: Hollywood Babylon (Never got around to that. Kinda regret reading it. Hateful little Book)
Currently: Train: Feist: A Darkness at Sethanon. (Girlfriend got me into the Riftwar books. Not deep, but excellent little pallete-cleansers. Some content aged like shit though) Home: Judith Holofernes: Träume anderer Leute. (Hi Germans!)
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 26, 2023 15:32:08 GMT -5
Since I always read two Books at the same time, Last Train Book: Wittgenstein: Tractacus (Re-read and mostly prep for finally getting to read Wittgensteins misstress) Home Book: Hollywood Babylon (Never got around to that. Kinda regret reading it. Hateful little Book) Currently: Train: Feist: A Darkness at Sethanon. (Girlfriend got me into the Riftwar books. Not deep, but excellent little pallete-cleansers. Some content aged like shit though) Home: Judith Holofernes: Träume anderer Leute. (Hi Germans!) Read Hollywood Babylon in 2020. Had heard about it for years,betting first in the Misfits song with that title. Fun read but so much of it has been proven to flat out false. Oddly after I finished it I had left it laying on the table next to my chair. My mother saw it picked it up. "Oh when did you get this?" Turns out she had heard about it and always wanted to read it. Last few books,cause I read 3 or 4 books at once. 13 Ways to sink a sub by Jamie Gilson-3rd grade class attempts ot make their sub cry. Not as mean as it sounds. Read it back when it came out and I was in 4th grade. Learned recently it was part of 6 or 7 books. Tracked them all down. 4b Goes Wild-Kids from the previous book move into 4th grade. And go spend a weekend at outdoors ed. Hobie Hanson You Are Weird-Book 3,summer after 4th grade. Our lead Hobie is stuck bored during summer cause all his friends are at camp. Double Dog Dare-Start of 5th grade. And the first just not good book in the series. Hobie Hanson Hero of the Mall-Town floods. The kids school needs repairs so Hobie and the rest of the school move into a giant abandoned store in a near by mall. Sticks,Stones and Skeleton Bones-Not long before Xmas Hobie and his best friend get into a fight. Now they gotta resolve it or Santa won't bring their new schhool 10 free computers. I just wanted some easy reads. And before now I had only read the first 5 of these.
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Post by Instant Classic on Jun 26, 2023 18:03:03 GMT -5
Life as we knew it. Read it 10 years ago. It’s a trilogy but a fourth book came out a while ago that I never knew about so I’m rereading it all again.
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Lardlad
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Post by Lardlad on Jul 1, 2023 17:53:12 GMT -5
There's Just One Problem...: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, 7th Most Powerful Person in WWE by Brian Gewirtz
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champchumpchange
Don Corleone
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Post by champchumpchange on Jul 1, 2023 18:16:17 GMT -5
First tome of Count of Monte Cristo
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Post by bibboid on Jul 4, 2023 16:14:35 GMT -5
“Beyond the Blue Event Horizon” by Frederik Pohl. Book two of his Heechee saga. An expedition to a Heechee artifact leads to some amazing discoveries and makes Robin Broadhead the richest man in the world.
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Post by SneakMan on Jul 5, 2023 9:31:50 GMT -5
“Adelaide” by Genevieve Wheeler. Not my usual genre but it was a Book of the Month choice so I figured I’d give it a shot. And I actually enjoyed it a lot - very fast-paced and felt very real in terms of emotions, situations, etc. My one complaint is that the fate of one character, and the title character’s reaction to that fate, felt unearned which caused the middle to drag a bit. Beyond that though it was very good.
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Post by animaniac on Jul 5, 2023 9:40:42 GMT -5
Been reading Lost Ballparks of New York lately. Apparently, ice Baseball was a real thing that happened in the early days of the game.
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champchumpchange
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Post by champchumpchange on Jul 5, 2023 9:54:08 GMT -5
First tome of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' (in french). Already 300 pages into the second tome.
Next will be The Three Musqueteers (again in french) and a YA book in Spanish (don't know which yet, I'm learning the language and think reading a book alongside daily Duolingo exercises will help)
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Jul 5, 2023 23:33:38 GMT -5
Currently listening to an audiobook of Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Last book I listened to was Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Post by 6pathsoftommy on Jul 6, 2023 12:31:00 GMT -5
Finished the first book of the Jedi Academy Trilogy Jedi Search. Now reading Dark Apprentice.
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Post by 6pathsoftommy on Jul 14, 2023 18:54:19 GMT -5
Finished the first book of the Jedi Academy Trilogy Jedi Search. Now reading Dark Apprentice. Just finished Dark Apprentice and getting to start Champions of the Force. I will say that out of all the Star Wars EU books I've read there's only two books I didn't like and that's Red Harvest and Knight Errant. I also didn't care for the last act of the first Lando Calrissian book too. But the rest of them I found quite enjoyable.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Jul 14, 2023 23:06:07 GMT -5
Currently listening to an audiobook of Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie Last book I listened to was Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Every few years I'll reread Heart of Darkness, and just get sucked into the world Joseph Conrad created, the insanity of it all.
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Post by JasonVoorhees1988 on Jul 15, 2023 1:06:38 GMT -5
Taking Shape by Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins. This is a must-read for anyone that is a fan of the Halloween series. I just started Taking Shape II, which is about the lost Halloween Sequels. The second book is so very good. I love it so much. It's so interesting to see the direction the series could have gone.
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Post by Treklubj on Jul 15, 2023 13:35:00 GMT -5
The last book I read was "American Spy" by Lauren Wilkinson. It was different than I expected, but still a good read.
I also just completed the entire run of Image Comics' "Chew" by John Layton and Rob Guilroy. It was a solid run. It lost a little steam around the seventh or eighth volume but found its footing and finished pretty strong.
I'm currently listening to the Autobiography of Malcolm X. I've read the book twice but it has been years and I wanted to check it out with Lawrence Fishburne as narrator. About halfway through and Furious Styles has given an incredible performance.
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Post by bibboid on Jul 18, 2023 19:22:26 GMT -5
“The Stars, Like Dust” by Asimov
It calls itself an Empire book but I’m not sure that is right. It’s definitely post-robot but nowhere near the formation of the Empire. It was more of a generic ‘people running through space trying to solve a mystery’ kind of story with a ‘bet you didn’t see that coming’ twist at the end. I wasn’t very impressed with it.
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Post by saneiac on Jul 19, 2023 22:06:13 GMT -5
Finished the first book of the Jedi Academy Trilogy Jedi Search. Now reading Dark Apprentice. Just finished Dark Apprentice and getting to start Champions of the Force. I will say that out of all the Star Wars EU books I've read there's only two books I didn't like and that's Red Harvest and Knight Errant. I also didn't care for the last act of the first Lando Calrissian book too. But the rest of them I found quite enjoyable. Man, I HATED the Jedi Academy trilogy. It pretty much killed my enthusiasm for Star Wars EU novels. The main storyline was OK-ish, but I found all the side plots either boring or awful. Everything involving Jacen & Jaina falls firmly in the awful category, like I'd actually get angry every time a novel went back to them. And then there's the blob race chapter. The f***ing blob race chapter. You'd think asking someone to name the worst CHAPTER they've ever read is silly, but Kevin J Anderson has given us the definitive answer.
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