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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
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    I started this one last night. It seems short for a novel but i've enjoyed what i've read so far.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,836
    intodeep wrote:
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    I started this one last night. It seems short for a novel but i've enjoyed what i've read so far.


    Let us know what you thought when you are done. It is on my list to read as I love his stuff.

    In the event you didnt see it, here is NG in 'action'
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w5vw9RTVky4
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    F Me In The Brain wrote:
    intodeep wrote:
    boko-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-neil-gaiman.jpg

    I started this one last night. It seems short for a novel but i've enjoyed what i've read so far.


    Let us know what you thought when you are done. It is on my list to read as I love his stuff.

    In the event you didnt see it, here is NG in 'action'
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w5vw9RTVky4
    sadly i missed it live and i was kciking myself because it was hilarious. I saw his Sunday panel at SDCC an that is what made me want to read this book he talked about it a lot during that panel.
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  • Jeff Murray
    Jeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    Picking up a new author, starting Thomas Perry's "The Butcher's Boy".... Outside of Michael Connelly praising the book like crazy in the new introduction, I'm not sure what to expect. It helps that this book won the Edgar Award for best first novel... their picks are usually spot on.
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  • Loulou
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    I just finished this:

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    She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes

    As someone who usually dislikes memoirs, I have to say that this is a remarkable story and excellently written. It's a quick read (under 300 pages). There is so much packed into this story that I hardly know how to describe it. Brockes knows little of her mother's early life and why she chose to leave South Africa for England as a young woman. After her mother's death, she visits South Africa and her mother's surviving siblings and learns the horrific things her mother lived through. I'm not giving anything away in saying that it's clear from the first pages that in spite of everything, she remained a strong and independent woman who raised a strong and independent daughter.
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  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    Blown through half of this (it's short anyway) in a day.

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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
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  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
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    Finished this up last night. Not bad. Human sacrifice stories are always fun.

    Now I'm reading this:

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    In my goal to read 60 books this year, I've only read 28. I'm hoping to get through all 11 of Burroughs' Mars books by the end of the month as that will help get me back on schedule. It's pretty good so far, if a bit archaic.
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  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    Finished up this...I really like the way Augusten Burroughs tells a story...he's had a crazy life.

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    Just started this...decided to try out King's wife...

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    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
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    Hawking's A Brief History of Time.

    How is this? I read a Briefer History of Time and enjoyed it, but I figured that was just an abbreviated (and dumbed-down) version of Brief.
    "Where's KW?"
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,836
    Have read about 20 of Cornwell's books...any historical fiction fans that may not know him should check it out. [I purposefully have avoided the Share Series, which he is most famous for, as that is 21 books long and it would f with my stack that I need to get through....but one of these days!]

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  • PJFAN13
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    Difficult Men a behind the scenes look at the "villains" of The Sopranos, the Wire, Breaking Bad - the Golden age of Cable TV - as well as the creators - picking their brains and such.
    Fantastic read, can't recommend it enough!
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  • gunter1976
    gunter1976 Posts: 587
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    Three novellas of squishy-noir from Jordan Krall.
    On the surface, Thompson looks like any other blue collar New Jersey town. But beneath the working class exterior lies a bizarro world of fetishistic crime, sleazy motels, and squid. In these three bizarro-noir novellas, the reader is thrown into a world of murderers, drugs made from squid parts, deformed war veterans, and a mischievous apocalyptic donkey...

    THE HABERDASHER

    Red Henry Hooper just got out on parole. He meets his friends, fellow small-time criminals Dix Hayden and Grant Minissi, in a cheap motel to drink a couple beers and perhaps plan another job. Things go sour when Grant takes some bad drugs. Meanwhile, in the next room, strange things are happening that will make Henry's day even worse: a woman is missing her feet and a notorious local gangster Robert Hapertas (aka The Haberdasher) is on his way. And he's not pleased...

    THE LONGHEADS

    Tommy Pingpong knew it was a mistake sending his partner Jake into the meeting with their boss. Now they were on the run from Peachy, a diaper-wearing gangster who would like nothing better than to kill the both of them. On top of that, the deformed war veterans called the longheads are buying up all the guns in town, planning something big that'll have severe implications for the town of Thompson.

    THE APOCALYPSE DONKEY

    When Simon Palmer took the black envelope from the tall man in the parking lot, he didn't know that this case of mistaken identity would make his day take such a weird turn for the worst. When the man finally realizes that he gave the envelope to the wrong guy, Simon is thrown into a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that finally leads to a sleazy carnival of squid violence...
    "...bring it back someway bring it back, back, back... to the clean form, to the pure form..."

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  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    kw18 wrote:

    Now I'm reading this:

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    In my goal to read 60 books this year, I've only read 28. I'm hoping to get through all 11 of Burroughs' Mars books by the end of the month as that will help get me back on schedule. It's pretty good so far, if a bit archaic.

    Thoroughly enjoyed this book! I was a bit surprised that a book more than 100 years old could hold up so well, but it really did. Now I'm about a quarter of the way through the next book in the series:

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    It's pretty good so far!
    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    I just finished Bad Monkey by Carl hiaasen. Took me awhile, but it was good. It s actaully a fast read, but I couldnt get focused on the second half.

    I've got three Neil Gaiman books that are up next. I dont know which one though. Im looking forward to them after a referral from this place. :)
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    F Me In The Brain wrote:
    intodeep wrote:
    boko-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-neil-gaiman.jpg

    I started this one last night. It seems short for a novel but i've enjoyed what i've read so far.


    Let us know what you thought when you are done. It is on my list to read as I love his stuff.

    In the event you didnt see it, here is NG in 'action'
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w5vw9RTVky4
    I just finished this at lunch time and i enjoyed it. Not his best but a cool read for sure. It reminded me of childhood and how we see the world as a child. Like all of his books i became imersed in the story. Its short maybe 200 pages. Neil just captures my imagination. I think i may need to read it again to catch all the symbolism but this is a well crafted story.
    I really liked this:
    "I'm going to tell you something important. Grown ups don't look like grown ups on the inside either. Outside they're big and thoughles sand they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is they aren't grownups. Not one, in the whole wide world."
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,836
    intodeep wrote:
    F Me In The Brain wrote:
    intodeep wrote:
    boko-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-neil-gaiman.jpg

    I started this one last night. It seems short for a novel but i've enjoyed what i've read so far.


    Let us know what you thought when you are done. It is on my list to read as I love his stuff.

    In the event you didnt see it, here is NG in 'action'
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w5vw9RTVky4
    I just finished this at lunch time and i enjoyed it. Not his best but a cool read for sure. It reminded me of childhood and how we see the world as a child. Like all of his books i became imersed in the story. Its short maybe 200 pages. Neil just captures my imagination. I think i may need to read it again to catch all the symbolism but this is a well crafted story.
    I really liked this:
    "I'm going to tell you something important. Grown ups don't look like grown ups on the inside either. Outside they're big and thoughles sand they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is they aren't grownups. Not one, in the whole wide world."

    Thanks, look forward to reading!
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  • don smith
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  • Pjzepp67
    Pjzepp67 Posts: 445
    Flesh Wounds by Christopher Brookmyre...he's a kinda Scottish Elmore Leonard...just finished it about 5mins ago. I have read everything he has ever written, and as much as I love his earlier work, this is his best yet... :D

    Kinda sad when you finish a book that's this good... :fp:

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