What book are you reading?

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  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 782
    edited December 2

    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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  • 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: 31,844
    VERY highly recommended!


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

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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,321
    PB In Cold Blood - CAPOTE TRUMAN -
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  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 782
    edited December 18
    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: 3,617
    edited December 19


    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: 43,855
    Another great one by the inimitable Mr. Charles Bowden!





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

  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,935
    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: 43,855
    edited December 22
    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: 1,935
    Going to start Lonesome Dove. I’ve heard lots of great things. It’s a chunky book!
  • ST66483
    ST66483 Posts: 931
    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: 1,935
    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: 30,405
    About 100 pages in:

    About 10 pages in:

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