Hi Reggie,reggiesimpson wrote:Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
You must be having an enjoyable read. I've always thought "Adventures" was among the best and
especially like The Five Orange Pips.
Fallible
Hi Reggie,reggiesimpson wrote:Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Excellent story indeed.Fallible wrote:Hi Reggie,reggiesimpson wrote:Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
You must be having an enjoyable read. I've always thought "Adventures" was among the best and
especially like The Five Orange Pips.
Fallible
Thanks, I won't panic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Live Free or Diehard wrote:Don't Panic! Did you know that Eoin Colfer published the sixth book of the Hitchhiker's trilogy in 2009? It's called And Another Thing...Fallible wrote:Also sadly finished the fifth and last novel in the one-volume The Ultimate Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Favorite characters throughout, except for Ford Prefect and maybe Slartibartfast, are machines: Marvin the desperately unhappy android, Colin the desperately happy robot, Eddie the jovial shipboard computer, and the existential, talking elevators so bored with up and down they try sideways.
Also, there are the Dirk Gently books (by Douglas Adams). I really liked them.
Did any of you read And Another Thing? Comments on it??Fallible wrote:Thanks, I won't panic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Live Free or Diehard wrote:Don't Panic! Did you know that Eoin Colfer published the sixth book of the Hitchhiker's trilogy in 2009? It's called And Another Thing...Fallible wrote:Also sadly finished the fifth and last novel in the one-volume The Ultimate Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Favorite characters throughout, except for Ford Prefect and maybe Slartibartfast, are machines: Marvin the desperately unhappy android, Colin the desperately happy robot, Eddie the jovial shipboard computer, and the existential, talking elevators so bored with up and down they try sideways.
Also, there are the Dirk Gently books (by Douglas Adams). I really liked them.
Actually, I'm mostly just sad that I'll never read those five books again for the first time, if you know what I mean. I do know of the other works and will be getting to them soon.
I just finished The Cuckoo's Calling. It had a very good ending. I liked Cuckoo's Calling much better than The Casual Vacancy.chaz wrote:"The Cuckoo's Calling" is a wonderful murder mystery. I hope the author continues in this genre.
Next is "Be Cool" by Elmore Leonard.
I thought "Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History" might be a sexy book. But you supplied the missing link(in a very clever way).nisiprius wrote:I am currently alternating gulps of The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling with nibbles of Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History, by William J. Bernstein.
Riddle: What does Masters of the Word have in common with Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Naked Lunch?
Click cursor and drag from hereThe publisher, Grove Press. to here for answer.
I've read most of the Lee Child novels. Did you like Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher?Ricola wrote:After seeing the Jack Reacher movie I had to read one of the Lee Child novels. Finished Killing Floor, then 61 Hours and Worth Dying For. Very entertaining and will be adding some more of this series.
Not having read the book prior to seeing the movie, I did like Cruise in the movie. However after reading the books I can understand why some people didn't, but Cruise did convey the traits of singleness of mind and focus. I believe the author indicated that those traits were more import to convey than just physical presence. Granted thou, when reading the book I don't visualize Reacher much like Cruise.chaz wrote:I've read most of the Lee Child novels. Did you like Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher?Ricola wrote:After seeing the Jack Reacher movie I had to read one of the Lee Child novels. Finished Killing Floor, then 61 Hours and Worth Dying For. Very entertaining and will be adding some more of this series.
Interesting. I thought she stopped writing. What is the target audience?nisiprius wrote:FInished The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling, and I'm glad I did. Better than I'd thought. I thought it was a sort of mean-spirited black-humor piece. It is not. She is doing something rather interesting that doesn't become clear unless you read the whole book; it is comparable to an artist who is willing to paint almost all of a canvas in dark colors in order to make just one little part of it look as if it is glowing.
Adults.protagonist wrote:Interesting. I thought she stopped writing. What is the target audience?nisiprius wrote:FInished The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling, and I'm glad I did. Better than I'd thought. I thought it was a sort of mean-spirited black-humor piece. It is not. She is doing something rather interesting that doesn't become clear unless you read the whole book; it is comparable to an artist who is willing to paint almost all of a canvas in dark colors in order to make just one little part of it look as if it is glowing.
That book has made you into a Tycoon.Tycoon wrote:A Concise Logic William H. Halverson
A very old college textbook I just can't get rid of.
I just finished "I suck at girls" by Halpern. One of the funniest books I've read in a long time.chaz wrote:For a change of genre, "Sh#t My Dad Says" by Justin Halpern. Humor instead of crime, though some comedians are criminal.
Re Amazon reviews, there are certain categories of book you pretty much have to ignore the reviews, especially the negative ones.gkaplan wrote:I'm just finishing up Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case: United States v. Oliver North by Jeffrey Toobin. Toobin was fresh out of Harvard Law School and had not yet sat for the bar exam when he applied for, and was hired by, the Office of Independent Counsel. Led by Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, the Office of Independent Counsel investigated and tried the leading figure in the Iran-Contra affair, Oliver North. Toobin served some twenty-eight months on Walsh's staff. (He passed the bar on his first try shortly after his appointment to the Office of Independent Counsel.)
This is a terrific book, and Jeffrey Toobin is an excellent writer. If the book tends toward legalese, this is no way detracts from its can't-put-down readability. (Don't be misled by the two reviews on Amazon, both of which are negative.)
Card is a very controversial author-- big debate over his personal beliefs and his plans for the movie royalties. (I have not yet decided whether I will see the movie).rjsob58 wrote:For fiction (sci-fi actually), just finished The Ender Quintet and The Shadow Series by Orson Scott Card. Very entertaining.
Non-fiction: Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes by Jack Challem, Ron Hunninghake. I didn't really use the recipes or do the supplements they recommended, but lost 30lbs in 3-4 months and it took my Cholesterol down from over 400 to 150 in the same time frame. Got a gold star from my Dr.
The major criticism I read of the book, and given the title you could argue that it's not a valid criticism, is that it tends to treat everyone else in the Korean war as an afterthought (but the title does say 'America's war'). It was a huge multinational operation on the UN side, involving Canadians, British, Turkish and many other countries. There is also a new book told more from the Korean perspective, and that too is fairly horrifying: the sacrifices of the Republic of Korea troops (many of whom were integrated with US units) and also the appaling behaviour of the dictator Singman Rhee's military police. One British commander went so far as to tell his superiors he would order his men to fire on Rhee's MPs, if they conducted another mass execution of civilians within visibility of his camp.ofcmetz wrote:The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam.
I find it to be very easy to read and interesting. As well as telling the history of the war it also goes into the politics surrounding the war. I'm about 1/5th through it and it has gone into a lot of history about McArthur and Truman as well. I can tell it's really building towards their struggle and McArthur's eventual firing.
Was this the one Saccho and Vanzetti were done for-- almost certainly erroneously? A horse drawn cart full of explosives, killed a number of people on Wall Street? And Emma Goldman's associate tried to shoot Henry Clay Frick?nisiprius wrote:Finished 90% of Everything, Rose George's book about the container shipping industry, and it is sensational, and very relevant to maintaining a vague crude understanding of something that is of gigantic global economic importance.
Just read Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale. Shrug. It kept me reading, but I can't say I liked it much. The characters all seemed cartoonish, although you do sympathize with and feel quite sorry for Stevie, the exploited, mentally retarded boy. I did not find his explanation of why terrorists would choose to bomb the Greenwich Observatory to be at all convincing, and was going to complain of being unable to suspend disbelief, until I learned that he based it on a real incident--a real incident for which no coherent motive or explanation has ever been found. Along the way I found a New York Times review that explained to me something I hadn't understood, that there really had been a huge number of "anarchist," terrorist, bombing attempts in that era.
I do remember seeing at a museum a replica of some specific "anarchist" bomb. The traditional iconic comic-book image of the spherical bomb with the fuse is actually a stylized representation of one, specific, real-life design.
If you like sci-fi (especially cyberpunk), LG, read "The Long Run" by Daniel Keys Moran. It's one of the best sci-fi books ever. Really. Published in the late 80s, it has been in and out of print, very hard to find, and used copies have sold for over $200. But now you can get the e-book version for $5.99, and Amazon has some used copies of print versions at reasonable prices.LadyGeek wrote:I'm back to Sci-Fi: "Hellhole" - The Hellhole Trilogy (Volume (1 of 3)), Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
A corrupt government sends someone in exhile to another planet. While he's plotting ways to get even, the colonists discover an alien civilization.
(So much for my attempt at book overviews. I liked the writing style and it keeps you wanting to read more.)
If you have a Nook, checkout the Barnes & Noble link. (They don't carry this one.)Wiki wrote: * AbeBooks
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Emerald Eyes is the first of the Continuing Time series (sort of), and very interesting, very worth reading, but (IMHO) not nearly as good as The Long Run (which is why I suggested TLR first to get you hooked). I read The Long Run before Emerald Eyes (it took me nearly five more years to find Emerald Eyes, as this was all pre-ebay-amazon era!) and I didn't feel at a terrible loss reading them in that order. as there is much in The Long Run that recaps the events of Emerald Eyes without ruining it. But if you are a purist, and committed, yes, by all means start with Emerald Eyes. If you are buying it as an e-book, please buy directly from the author via his website. Friends don't let Friends shop at Amazon. I haven't read these books in over 20 years, but I imagine they probably would withstand the test of time (esp. based on recent reviews).LadyGeek wrote:^^^ Thanks!! As soon as you mentioned Cyberpunk, I instantly thought of Snow Crash and several William Gibson novels (I have a few...). Then, I read your 2nd paragraph.
OK, it's on my list (right after I finish the Hellhole trilogy), but I've got to do these series in order. I'll start with Emerald Eyes. From Wikipedia: Daniel Keys Moran
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We use the same software as Wikipedia and do the same thing in the wiki here (several wiki articles have ISBN links): Book sources - just enter the ISBN number and hit Go.
Here's the one for Emerald Eyes: Book sources - BogleheadsIf you have a Nook, checkout the Barnes & Noble link. (They don't carry this one.)Wiki wrote: * AbeBooks
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