What are you reading? (January 2010)
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Re: What are you reading? (January 2010)
Just finished:
![](http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/vintage-books/2132-1.jpg)
I was sufficiently inspired that I bought the 5-volume set of short stories by Philip K. Dick.
Started:
![](http://jacketupload.macmillanusa.com/jackets/high_res/jpgs/9780312979270.jpg)
It's amazing how despicable John Robinson was before he was a serial killer. He'd start businesses, steal hundreds of thousands from investors, and give them nothing. He was just so smooth and convincing that he sounded like an expert in any field he wished. When the police came after him, he'd use expensive lawyers to get himself off. He was also involved in prostitution, baby-selling, and murder. The Kansas City Star did multiple exposes on him, but it was 16 years before he got sent to prison. He only started the serial killing after he got out.
![](http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/vintage-books/2132-1.jpg)
I was sufficiently inspired that I bought the 5-volume set of short stories by Philip K. Dick.
Started:
![](http://jacketupload.macmillanusa.com/jackets/high_res/jpgs/9780312979270.jpg)
It's amazing how despicable John Robinson was before he was a serial killer. He'd start businesses, steal hundreds of thousands from investors, and give them nothing. He was just so smooth and convincing that he sounded like an expert in any field he wished. When the police came after him, he'd use expensive lawyers to get himself off. He was also involved in prostitution, baby-selling, and murder. The Kansas City Star did multiple exposes on him, but it was 16 years before he got sent to prison. He only started the serial killing after he got out.
Last edited by Nick Danger; 01-10-10 at 11:52 AM.
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Re: What are you reading? (January 2010)
This is a passage directly from the book (spoilered for length):
Spoiler:
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Re: What are you reading? (January 2010)
Wasnt one of them banging a 20+ year old? I thought it was Dylan
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Out of order due to a slight purchase mix-up somewhere along the line....
.... Jim Butcher's "Proven Guilty".
This page-turner of an "urban fantasy" series, recommended by fellow Book Talkers, has served as a great encouragement when it comes to making time for regular reading again. My fiction reading had tailed off alarmingly and I'm now (at last!) enthused to start catching up with my book debt.
This page-turner of an "urban fantasy" series, recommended by fellow Book Talkers, has served as a great encouragement when it comes to making time for regular reading again. My fiction reading had tailed off alarmingly and I'm now (at last!) enthused to start catching up with my book debt.
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Re: What are you reading? (January 2010)
The picture of your bookshelf is one of the reasons why I switched to ebooks. I loved the ease of purchase, and the lack of space constraints. My bookshelf is still pretty cluttered, but I find that I am like a hoarder went it comes to books, always keeping them even if I never plan to read them again (or in the case of books lent to me by friends, read them at all). Some day I plan to gather up my books and either sell them or give them away to friends, charities, or whoever wants them.
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Book # 3
![](http://content-0.powells.com/cgi-bin/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9780307472120)
Finally got through it after 3 failed attempts. Really grabbed me by the shorthairs around 80 pages in and didn't let up. Have no idea where to go next.
Finally got through it after 3 failed attempts. Really grabbed me by the shorthairs around 80 pages in and didn't let up. Have no idea where to go next.
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Re: What are you reading? (January 2010)
Just finished Under the Dome, one of the best Stephen King works I've read in a long time.
Currently reading:
![](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2Bel2k0F4L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
and
Currently reading:
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and
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