What Are You Reading? (July 2017)
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Re: What Are You Reading? (July 2017)
Finished this in 2 days over the 4th - 25th entry in the series and JS successfully manages to keep things fresh and compelling as ever.
Just started this:
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Re: What Are You Reading? (July 2017)
Finished:
Meh. I guess I like Joe Ledger stories better as novels than short stories. This is an odd collection in that it gives away huge novel spoilers, so it seems targeted to fans of the series. But every story wastes time reintroducing everyone and everything. Nothing great, but those that read the series will probably want to check it out at some point.
Meh. I guess I like Joe Ledger stories better as novels than short stories. This is an odd collection in that it gives away huge novel spoilers, so it seems targeted to fans of the series. But every story wastes time reintroducing everyone and everything. Nothing great, but those that read the series will probably want to check it out at some point.
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Re: What Are You Reading? (July 2017)
Finished 1968 by Joe Haldeman. I enjoyed it. non-sci-fi story of a guy's time in vietnam and afterwards. Also follows his girlfriend back home's story.
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Finished:
The twists and turns in the last third really pushed it over the top for me, elevating it from a standard riff on the old "alternative universes" story.
Anyone know the status of the movie adaptation of this? I can see this story working really well in that format, and it shouldn't take a really big budget to do it justice:
The twists and turns in the last third really pushed it over the top for me, elevating it from a standard riff on the old "alternative universes" story.
Anyone know the status of the movie adaptation of this? I can see this story working really well in that format, and it shouldn't take a really big budget to do it justice:
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Re: What Are You Reading? (July 2017)
I imagine this book resonates better with those that lived at prep school or those that lived in a college dormitory, the latter of which I did. You certainly meet and live with odd and quirky characters like Leper and despots like Brinker. Sometimes you meet someone like Phineas with a different way of looking at things and is so out there that you don't know what to think about them until after many years of reflection. This was the case for Gene in the novel.
Even though I kinda saw it coming I had to put the book down when I read
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Re: What Are You Reading? (July 2017)
Read:
This preface was as far as I got reading The Sea Egg from a yard sale long, long ago. It did inform me on British currency at the time. Two boys on summer holiday that hatch a triton or merman from a sea egg. Looks like the original edition had some illustrations.
Reread:
Rereading:
English money is used in this book. In dollars and cents it equals:
Pound: about $2.40
Shilling: a coin, not used now, worth about 12 cents.
Bob: slang for shilling
Crown: a silver coin, worth about 5 shillings, now minted only on special occasions.
Pence: 1 cent.
2/- means 2 shillings.
Pound: about $2.40
Shilling: a coin, not used now, worth about 12 cents.
Bob: slang for shilling
Crown: a silver coin, worth about 5 shillings, now minted only on special occasions.
Pence: 1 cent.
2/- means 2 shillings.
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Re: What Are You Reading? (July 2017)
Just Finished:
I Lost it at the Video Store: A Filmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era by Tom Roston
Just Started:
Emmett & Gentry by John Locke
I Lost it at the Video Store: A Filmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era by Tom Roston
Just Started:
Emmett & Gentry by John Locke
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Re: What Are You Reading? (July 2017)
Finished:
Probably a mistake to not read this right after Wool. My memories fuzzy of the details, and by the end of the book (and the start of the book, Dust), it's clear that's something the author is not accommodating of.
Probably a mistake to not read this right after Wool. My memories fuzzy of the details, and by the end of the book (and the start of the book, Dust), it's clear that's something the author is not accommodating of.