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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #45 on: July 22, 2003, 11:04:16 PM »
One woman has put me on to Laurie R. King's Mary Russell adventures.  The concept: in 1915 a precocious young girl befriends Sherlock Holmes, and we follow a kind of second career of his through the eyes of a not-quite-so-bumbling heir to Watson's role of companion.  I've seen many perfectly good extensions of the Holmes mythology, but this is more than just a neat idea; it positively liberates our sense of Holmes.  The first book, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, was very cool.  I don't quite know how I feel about my current reading project, O Jerusalem, but I greatly look forward to Justice Hall and hope to be able to report on both in the not too far future.
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #46 on: July 22, 2003, 11:30:28 PM »
Cherry, P. P. The Western Reserve and Early Ohio. Akron, Ohio: R. L. Fouse, 1921.

 
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #47 on: July 22, 2003, 11:32:15 PM »
The Pinball Effect by James Burke. An entertaining read about the interconnectedness of technological developments during the past several hundred years.  
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #48 on: July 22, 2003, 11:36:41 PM »
Oh, yes. Book thread. Must jump on it!

Things I Have Read and Enjoyed... in the past two days.

Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
The Free Lunch, by Spider Robinson
and... um.... Fox in Socks. Dr. Suess. I have a toddler, though, so that excuses a lot.

Even if he was asleep. I was... practicing. Yeah.
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #49 on: July 23, 2003, 12:44:52 AM »
A few excellent books i've just read (or reread)

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon by Robert Rosen
strangely enough, Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, was obsessed with The Catcher in the Rye, and he was carrying a copy of the novel on that fateful day, Dec. 8, 1980...  
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #50 on: July 24, 2003, 12:03:24 AM »
Currently reading  John Adams  by David McCullough.  
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #51 on: July 24, 2003, 05:25:46 AM »
Off with Their Heads : Traitors, Crooks & Obstructionists in American Politics, Media & Business by Dick Morris

His discussion of the New York Times is awesome!

 
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #52 on: July 24, 2003, 06:08:03 PM »
I'm in Sci-Fi mostly (some Fantasy, too...)

I just read  Consider Phlebas by Ian Banks - it's quite good.
Best book I read in the last months:  Diaspora by Greg Egan.
I read them translated german, though.

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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #53 on: July 24, 2003, 09:04:07 PM »
Most of you will probably think that I'm a redneck (BTW, I'm not) but the most recent book that I have read is The Guns of the South and I am currently reading How Few Remain both by Harry Turtledove, the king of alternate history. Now, I don't wish the south had won the civil war, but it's interesting to see how things may have turned out differently if key events had or had not taken place. The next books on my list are The Great War Series: American Front, Walk in Hell and Blood and Iron, three books about World War I with the CSA allied with the British and French and the USA allied with Germany. I wonder how that turns out.  
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #54 on: July 30, 2003, 02:58:38 PM »
I just stumbled across the best author I've read in years...   David Gemmell , right now I'm reading through 'Sword in the Storm'.  It's damn good, I stayed up all night last night reading, I just couldn't pull myself away.... I guess this guy has like 20 books out there... I can't wait to read them.



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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #55 on: October 31, 2003, 11:39:14 PM »
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"Color - A Natural History of the Palette" by Victoria Finlay.

A truly fascinating history of the major colors (black, white, red, orange, etc.).

Finlay travels the world to seek out the places where the pigments & dyes originated, in the hope that she can find them still being produced. The chapter that most impressed me was Blue. She went into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, and trekked over mountains to get to the lapis lazuli mines (the vivid blue stone is used to make the pigment ultramarine), where she was the first woman to visit in six months. She also got to climb on the top of one of those Buhdda statues that were subsequently destroyed to see one of the oldest examples of ultramarine paint.

Oh, you can taunt your vegan friends by letting them know that one of the most widely used red pigments (Color Additive E120, which is used in Cherry Coke, for one) comes from crushed beetles.

Lots of wonderful anecdotes, and the photo section is - of course - in color.

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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #56 on: October 31, 2003, 11:44:16 PM »
 Bolo Strike  by William H. Keith, Jr.

It looks like I need to go make a couple of corrections on the "death robot" thread.  
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #57 on: November 01, 2003, 12:19:08 AM »
rtpoe's book about color sounds fascinating... I always want to know WHY and HOW things came to be as they now are. A recent read I absolutely loved was "Rural Studio" about the architect Sam Mockbee: http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/compare/isbn/1568982925/isrc/b-home-search Another book on Mockbee's amazing work bringing economical, effective and even noble architecture and shelter to folks not able to afford such things: http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/compare/isbn/093139452X/isrc/b-home-search

 
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #58 on: November 06, 2003, 09:22:19 AM »
Jack Higgins  In the Hour Before Midnight  
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Re: Read any good books lately?
« Reply #59 on: November 06, 2003, 04:16:51 PM »
"The Stone Cold Truth" as told by Steve Austin  
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