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Postby dodint » Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:40 am

This week's new arrivals:

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Spoiler alert: It's African food.

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Postby Silentom » Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:50 am

@NAN's black friend.

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Postby NAN » Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:54 am

Oh ****.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:39 pm

The Plot Against America was a fun read.

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Postby Gaucho » Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:43 pm

I own the "special" German edition.

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Postby columbia » Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:45 pm

hmmmm...interesting.

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Postby Gaucho » Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:49 pm

Yes. British publisher. As far as I can tell, the depiction of a swastika would not be unlawful in this scenario.

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Aug 30, 2017 6:28 pm

Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... are_btn_tw

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Postby dodint » Wed Aug 30, 2017 6:34 pm

Well done.

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Postby obhave » Wed Aug 30, 2017 6:59 pm

Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... are_btn_tw
I'm happy that they did this, since he has said so many times he wanted it. We are blessed with so many of his novels, I don't need his unfinished work.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:09 pm

Hmmm...maybe it is time to get into the Discworld series.

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:24 pm

I, for one, am thankful that Max Brod did not follow Kafka's wishes. Selfish, I know.

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Postby eddy » Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:58 pm

Hmmm...maybe it is time to get into the Discworld series.
I've thought about this many times and every time look where to start I get confused and end up doing more reading about the different paths and order than it would just to read them all from start to finish.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:34 pm

Hmmm...maybe it is time to get into the Discworld series.
I've thought about this many times and every time look where to start I get confused and end up doing more reading about the different paths and order than it would just to read them all from start to finish.
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Postby Robot B9 » Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:00 pm

He's a king of the Airport spy novel. Great stuff.
Just finished it. Enjoyable. Moved very quickly, though possibly too quickly in spots twss, but will check out others by him. Found the Harvath character intriguing to the point where I want to learn more about him.
Picked up Use of Force, his new one. Looks like all his books are the Harvath character. Almost done, it's pretty similar to the previous one. I'll probably try a couple of the early ones to see if there's something different.

Edit: Finished it. Pretty lame ending.

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Postby eddy » Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:22 pm

finished a few books:

Ararat by Christopher Golden. this was pretty cool. Search for Noahs Ark meets The Thing.

Slade House by David Mitchel I very much enjoyedit, what a great haunting house book. He's a great writer and I think it may finally get me to read Cloud Atlas and Bone Clocks.

In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle. I've never read The Last Unicorn before, but remember liking the animated movie. I wasn't sure where this was going in the first 20 or 30 pages, but then it payed off big time by the end. It's like A History of Violence with Unicorns. I loved it, it was very moving!

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Postby columbia » Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:30 pm

recent purchases....


Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
by Anatole Broyard

The Vintage Mencken: The Finest and Fiercest Essays of the Great Literary Iconoclast

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by Gore Vidal

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Postby eddy » Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:45 pm

I also picked up some recent books at a church book fair:

The Stand. Finally getting close to sitting down and tackling this.

Roger Zelazny's 1967 book Lord Of Light Anyone ever read this?
Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rule their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons, Lord of Light.

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Postby Shyster » Wed Sep 20, 2017 9:11 pm

Hmmm...maybe it is time to get into the Discworld series.
I've thought about this many times and every time look where to start I get confused and end up doing more reading about the different paths and order than it would just to read them all from start to finish.
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As a big fan who has read all of the Discworld books, I'd recommend just reading them in the order they were written. The repeat groups of characters (e.g., Rincewind/the wizards , the City Guards, Granny Weatherwax/the witches, Death (WHO ALWAYS SPEAKS IN CAPITAL LETTERS)) do overlap at a few points, and there is a fairly consistent progress in time throughout all of the books, so I think it's better to read them as they were written.

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Postby eddy » Thu Sep 21, 2017 11:49 am

Happy 80th to The Hobbit: A lot of very cool art here

https://www.tor.com/2017/09/21/picturin ... malltweets

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Postby Gaucho » Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:48 pm

I did not know that HP Lovecraft was a terrible human being.*

http://lithub.com/we-cant-ignore-h-p-lo ... supremacy/

*maybe because I never actually read anyting by him. I think.

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Postby eddy » Tue Sep 26, 2017 1:10 pm

oh, wow, how about that. I've only ready At The Mountains of Madness and really dug it.

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Postby Gaucho » Tue Sep 26, 2017 1:35 pm

Well, a lot of great artists happen to be terrible human beings.

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Postby Gaucho » Tue Sep 26, 2017 6:14 pm

Salman Rushdie's new novel The Golden House is very good and oddly comforting. I have a feeling he's not impressed with the Donald.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:13 pm

I am just wrapping up The Colour of Magic. If you go on Terry Pratchett's website, it gives you a recommended reading order and that is the first. Wow...how did I miss this series for so long? The writing is brilliantly funny, sharp, and witty. The characters are rich, and horrifying yet humorous. I'll definitely be reading this whole series at some point.

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