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  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,981
    dipping in and out of the latest edition (only 1,600 pages...) 
     
    Manchester 04.06.00, Leeds 25.08.06, Wembley 18.06.07, Dusseldorf 21.06.07, Shepherds Bush 11.08.09, Manchester 17.08.09, Adelaide 17.11.09, Melbourne 20.11.09, Sydney 22.11.09, Brisbane 25.11.09, MSG1 20.05.10, MSG2 21.05.10, Dublin 22.06.10, Belfast 23.06.10, London 25.06.10, Long Beach 06.07.11 (EV), Los Angeles 08.07.11 (EV), Toronto 11.09.11, Toronto 12.09.11, Ottawa 14.09.11, Hamilton 14.09.11, Manchester 20.06.12, Manchester 21.06.12, Amsterdam 26.06.2012, Amsterdam 27.06.2012, Berlin 04.07.12, Berlin 05.07.12, Stockholm 07.07.12, Oslo 09.07.12, Copenhagen 10.07.12, Manchester 28.07.12 (EV), Brooklyn 18.10.13, Brooklyn 19.10.13, Philly 21.10.13, Philly 22.10.13, San Diego 21.11.13, LA 23.11.13, LA 24.11.13, Oakland 26.11.13, Portland 29.11.13, Spokane 30.11.13, Calgary 02.12.13, Vancouver 04.12.13, Seattle 06.12.13, Trieste 22.06.14, Vienna 25.06.14, Berlin 26.06.14, Stockholm 28.06.14, Leeds 08.07.14, Philly 28.04.16, Philly 28.04.16, MSG1 01.05.16, MSG2 02.05.16
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,993
    Amazoncom The Cry of the Owl Patricia Highsmith 9781784876807 Highsmith Patricia Books
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    23scidoo said:
    Amazoncom The Cry of the Owl Patricia Highsmith 9781784876807 Highsmith Patricia Books

    I hear she is a good writer.  Let us know how you like this one.

    After finally finishing a book I intentionally slowly savored because I like it so much (Bone's memoir, Surrender), I finally dove into Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken.  Quite an engaging story!
    Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,993
    brianlux said:
    23scidoo said:
    Amazoncom The Cry of the Owl Patricia Highsmith 9781784876807 Highsmith Patricia Books

    I hear she is a good writer.  Let us know how you like this one.

    After finally finishing a book I intentionally slowly savored because I like it so much (Bone's memoir, Surrender), I finally dove into Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken.  Quite an engaging story!
    Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

    That's the third book I've read from her and i can tell you definitely she is a good one 😉 
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    23scidoo said:
    brianlux said:
    23scidoo said:
    Amazoncom The Cry of the Owl Patricia Highsmith 9781784876807 Highsmith Patricia Books

    I hear she is a good writer.  Let us know how you like this one.

    After finally finishing a book I intentionally slowly savored because I like it so much (Bone's memoir, Surrender), I finally dove into Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken.  Quite an engaging story!
    Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

    That's the third book I've read from her and i can tell you definitely she is a good one 😉 

    Good to know, thanks!  :plus_one:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,892
    edited May 10
    Been on a reading kick recently. Favorite has been Martyr!, followed by Nickel Boys and There’s Always This Year. 

    Started Razorblade Tears yesterday after finishing The Trees by Percival Everett. 
  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    Before the coffee gets cold… tales from the cafe.   
  • Attaway77
    Attaway77 Posts: 3,771

    1998 Dallas (7/5) 2006 San Fran (7/15,7/16) 2009 San Fran (8/28) 2010 Bristow (5/13) NY (5/21) 2011 Alpine Valley (9/3,9/4)
    2012 Missoula (9/30) 2013 Chicago (7/19) Pittsburgh (10/11) Buffalo (10/12) Baltimore (10/27) Dallas (11/15)
    2014 Austin (10/12) Memphis (10/14) St. Paul (10/19) Milwaukee (10/20) Denver (10/22)
    2016 Ft. Lauderdale (4/8) Miami (4/9) Hampton (4/18) Philly (4/28,4/29) NY (5/1,5/2) 2018 Seattle (8/10) Missoula (8/13) 2022 Nashville (9/16)
    E.V. - 2008 Berkeley (4/8) 2012 Austin (11/9,11/12)
    Temple of the Dog - 2016 Upper Darby


  • Attaway77
    Attaway77 Posts: 3,771

    1998 Dallas (7/5) 2006 San Fran (7/15,7/16) 2009 San Fran (8/28) 2010 Bristow (5/13) NY (5/21) 2011 Alpine Valley (9/3,9/4)
    2012 Missoula (9/30) 2013 Chicago (7/19) Pittsburgh (10/11) Buffalo (10/12) Baltimore (10/27) Dallas (11/15)
    2014 Austin (10/12) Memphis (10/14) St. Paul (10/19) Milwaukee (10/20) Denver (10/22)
    2016 Ft. Lauderdale (4/8) Miami (4/9) Hampton (4/18) Philly (4/28,4/29) NY (5/1,5/2) 2018 Seattle (8/10) Missoula (8/13) 2022 Nashville (9/16)
    E.V. - 2008 Berkeley (4/8) 2012 Austin (11/9,11/12)
    Temple of the Dog - 2016 Upper Darby


  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,993
    May 30th said:
    Been on a reading kick recently. Favorite has been Martyr!, followed by Nickel Boys and There’s Always This Year. 

    Started Razorblade Tears yesterday after finishing The Trees by Percival Everett. 
    The Trees is on my list, good one??..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    Attaway77 said:

    I liked Henry V. I listened to the audiobook narrated by Dan Jones. I'm going to reread his book about the Magna Carta. Seems timely.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,993
    The Wager Amazoncouk Grann David 9781471183676 Books
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,481
    ^Good writer. Read his last two, but haven’t got to this one yet.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    I finished this one last night.  The horrors Louie Zamperini went through in this true story are almost unimaginable.  There were times when reading this that I would finish a particularly gruesome section that left me feeling almost sick.  The Japanese prison camps in WWII were beyond atrocious. The timing of this read for me was not good.  There always has been horrible brutality among humans, but with the state of the world as it is now, I really didn't need more misanthropic inducing horrors.  I wish I had read this one first AND THEN followed with Bono's hope filled Surrender.  But at least I'm a little further educated, and Hillenbrand is an excellent writer.

    Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival Resilience and Redemption Book


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,822
    Great book
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,892
    23scidoo said:
    May 30th said:
    Been on a reading kick recently. Favorite has been Martyr!, followed by Nickel Boys and There’s Always This Year. 

    Started Razorblade Tears yesterday after finishing The Trees by Percival Everett. 
    The Trees is on my list, good one??..
    I enjoyed it but I didn’t love it. Definitely get it from the library 
  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,892

    Reading this now. It’s going to be a trilogy supposedly. This is book two. 

    First book is called Harlem Shuffle. Really enjoyed it and this is off to a great start. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited May 28
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Great book

    It really is, for sure.  The timing was off for me, that's all.  I've read books by Charles Bowden that describe things that were even more horrific that what Hillenbrand describes.  I knew they would be and went into reading them with a fair idea of what they were going to be about.  Somehow I was thinking that Hillenbrand's book was going to be more along the lines of some of Hampton Sides work.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,822
    brianlux said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Great book

    It really is, for sure.  The timing was off for me, that's all.  I've read books by Charles Bowden that describe things that were even more horrific that what Hillenbrand describes.  I knew they would be and went into reading them with a fair idea of what they were going to be about.  Somehow I was thinking that Hillenbrand's book was going to be more along the lines of some of Hampton Sides work.
    I get that.  

    Just started Commanche Moon.  (Part of the Lonesome Dove run)
    I know I'm not getting too deep into things.  Been reading a lot of historical fiction and them a horror book.  Wanted to grab something lighter from the pile.  (Even if it is a heavy physical book!)
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,993
    CarryTheZero said:
    ^Good writer. Read his last two, but haven’t got to this one yet.
    Fascinating story!!
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..

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