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  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 792
    edited December 2025

    last one finished - the puzzle plot was good for a page turner effect, but the story itself is rather too much a made up build



    110 pages out of 220 read - and no crime in sight!?!?, but it’s very enjoyable. I was interested in the movie years ago, maybe I’ll watch it soon.
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,506
    isn't that the person Penny Lane from Almost Famous is based on?
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,943
    VERY highly recommended!


    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
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    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,380
    PB In Cold Blood - CAPOTE TRUMAN -
    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..
  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 792
    edited December 2025
    There’s a mystery bit to solve in the Sherlock Holmes book mentioned above, but the „chase“ can be more exciting for the film version, if it’s in it like in the book.


    About 100 pages read… should be definitive worth the time. I haven‘t seen the movie (2000) before. But now + just with the poster Matt Damon (born 1970) looks like a serious miscast. The boy is 16 years young in the novel, luckily I don‘t „see“ the Hollywood actor with it!!
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  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,655
    edited December 2025


    Dark fantasy/horror set in an alternate history Macon, Georgia. The Klan is in power, but they are led by actual demons. Only 30 pages in but good so far.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,955
    Another great one by the inimitable Mr. Charles Bowden!





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

  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,944
    Just finished my 50th book of the year last night. Don’t think I’ve read that many books in my entire life until this year where I started reading end of March. 

    My two top read authors were Colson Whitehead and Percival Everett. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,955
    edited December 2025
    May 30th said:
    Just finished my 50th book of the year last night. Don’t think I’ve read that many books in my entire life until this year where I started reading end of March. 

    My two top read authors were Colson Whitehead and Percival Everett. 

    Wow!  Nicely done!

    I will have reached a 21 year low this year with having only read 14 books.  Several of them were four to five hundred pages, so that partially accounts for it, but also, some were so darned good I intentionally plodded through them because I didn't want them to end, especially David Browne's Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth, Peter Ames Carlin's The Name of this Band is R.E.M. and Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken.


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

  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,944
    Going to start Lonesome Dove. I’ve heard lots of great things. It’s a chunky book!
  • ST66483
    ST66483 Posts: 943
    Lonesome Dove is a fantastic read - enjoy. I went into thinking it may not be my thing, but I found it highly enjoyable.
  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,944
    I’m not usually a western fan but people have said this is just awesome with very memorable characters throughout. I’m excited. 
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,472
    About 100 pages in:

    About 10 pages in:

    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,380
    Gift book, not my type..
    The Emperor of Gladness
    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: 43,955
    I'm reading Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins.  I know... it's a kids book!  But I'd never read it and we have a nice illustrated version (also a hardcover copy signed by O'Dell to my wife's parents).  It's quite a good book and the illustrations in my copy are marvelous!

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

  • Malroth
    Malroth broken down chevrolet Posts: 2,568
    dealing with mental health during civil war... loving it so far
    Nostalgia by Dennis McFarland 2013 Hardcover 9780307908346 eBay

    The worst of times..they don't phase me,
    even if I look and act really crazy.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 32,140
    May 30th said:
    Going to start Lonesome Dove. I’ve heard lots of great things. It’s a chunky book!
    Enjoy it, great one
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • Attaway77
    Attaway77 Posts: 4,038

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 32,140
    Attaway77 said:

    So (so!) Bummed there are no others.
    Love this series.  So great.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,655


    Just started tonight. Read about 5 of his books. They are usually great! So far so good on this one.

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