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Old 01-13-10 | 02:03 PM
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Old 01-13-10 | 05:51 PM
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Empire of Illusion - The End of Literacy and The Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
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Old 01-13-10 | 09:48 PM
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Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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Old 01-14-10 | 08:40 AM
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Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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What did you think of it? Does it come off as too terribly Victorian?
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Old 01-14-10 | 09:10 AM
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What did you think of it? Does it come off as too terribly Victorian?
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Old 01-15-10 | 05:59 PM
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What did you think of it? Does it come off as too terribly Victorian?
Not really. It's an easy read. I've read it a couple times before - has some pretty good atmosphere, but some of the medical ideas may come off as 'quaint' unless you already read that era.

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Old 01-16-10 | 10:16 AM
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Just finished Born To Run and really enjoyed it. So far, I'd read three great books this year, and hope to keep the trend going with:

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Finished Wambaugh's Hollywood Station.

Next up:

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Old 01-18-10 | 09:13 AM
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Old 01-18-10 | 09:43 AM
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Old 01-18-10 | 06:00 PM
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Great horror novel, one of my favorites.

I feel like Stephen King's Pennywise from IT came from the influence of this book (A.M.). Which is ok, because Straub's Floating Dragon is like a retelling of IT.
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Old 01-19-10 | 09:47 AM
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I just started:



Hopefully this maintains the momentum from Echo Park, which I felt was one of the strongest entries in the series.
That's crazy, I just finished Echo Park and was thinking the same thing. One of my favorites in the Bosch series (My favorite from Connelly is still The Poet). I was surprised at how good Echo Park was; it seemed like the Bosch books were starting to get bogged down. The part where
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Kiz got shot had me turning the pages like crazy. I thought she was going to be a goner. I also liked the little twist on how the DA up for election turned out to not be in on it.
I'm about to start The Overlook, too.
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Old 01-19-10 | 11:03 AM
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The book uses the only fatal reactor explosion in America as the starting point of a history of the development of atomic reactors. The author is a Naval Nuclear Engineer, so he knows his stuff. The uneasy intersection of politics, military planning, and big science. It is easy reading and it's fascinating.
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Old 01-19-10 | 11:38 AM
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Book #4

Great book. Thrilling from start to finish. Let us know what you think when you are done.
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