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    Quote Originally Posted by Lopez View Post
    Our local library reopens today for unrestricted browsing; it was by appointment only for the past few months. I'll be heading out there soon. Looking forward to see what's available.
    Grabbed a couple of new books in the Hard Case Crime imprint.

    A day or two ago I started Lucifer's Lottery by Edward Lee. A would-be seminary student wins a once-every-666-years lottery for a free tour of Hell. Oh-my-soul (as Little Richard once sang), I'm only 60 pages in out of 280; if Ed Lee has any insider information, I'm already looking for loopholes and the opt-out instructions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lopez View Post
    Grabbed a couple of new books in the Hard Case Crime imprint.

    A day or two ago I started Lucifer's Lottery by Edward Lee. A would-be seminary student wins a once-every-666-years lottery for a free tour of Hell. Oh-my-soul (as Little Richard once sang), I'm only 60 pages in out of 280; if Ed Lee has any insider information, I'm already looking for loopholes and the opt-out instructions.
    If you want more of this by Lee, check out his Infernal series. Infernal House, Infernal City, Infernal Angel. Lee is amazing!
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    Currently reading "The Last Days Of John Lennon" by James Patterson.

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    Silas Marner, by George Eliot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lopez View Post
    Grabbed a couple of new books in the Hard Case Crime imprint.

    A day or two ago I started Lucifer's Lottery by Edward Lee. A would-be seminary student wins a once-every-666-years lottery for a free tour of Hell. Oh-my-soul (as Little Richard once sang), I'm only 60 pages in out of 280; if Ed Lee has any insider information, I'm already looking for loopholes and the opt-out instructions.
    This sounds really cool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by per anporth View Post
    Silas Marner, by George Eliot.
    Required reading in English class, my Senior year of High School. Every one else was bored to tears. I thought it was excellent.

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    Chipping away at A History Of Doubt by Jennifer Hecht, and The Faith Of A Heretic by Walter Kaufmann. Both great reads and very well written.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moecurlythanu View Post
    Required reading in English class, my Senior year of High School. Every one else was bored to tears. I thought it was excellent.
    I'm loving it! On a project, reading all her novels in order - so far, each one marks a significant step up from its predecessor(s). She is some writer!!

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    The Girl With Seven Names: My Escape From North Korea


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    Started reading a recent Dutch translation of a Japanese novel from 2015 by Natsu Miyashita, called Hitsuji to hagane no mori (The Forest of Wool and Steel). It's about a young piano-tuner.

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    Killing Floor - Lee Child

    This is the first book in the Jack Reacher series. I have had one of his books (the hard way) for a while(I got it for free somewhere many years ago). I decided to start at the beginning. It turns out this book, while it's the first one published in the series, is not the first one chronologically. I'm going to read it anyway then maybe check out the prequels later. So far so good(about 22 pages in at this point). I never did see the movie(s) and not sure I want to. The main character is supposed to be 6'5 and 250. Tom Cruise is five seven and how much does he weigh?
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    Romola, by George Eliot

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    Currently reading a book compiled by a couple of editors of the Dutch progressive rock-magazine iO Pages, called Prog2020 And Other Jubilee Years.
    It contains interviews with international musicians, partly about how their view on how Covid-19 changed their lives. Other nice features are tweets through the years from artists, labels, radio-programs etc., an overview of releases on particular days through the year, but also on that day on one of the jubilee years.

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    I am currently reading "The War For Late Night" by Bill Carter. Very interesting book about the late night talk show wars, specifically regarding when Conan O'brien replaced Jay Leno and they tried to move Jay to 10:00PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital_Man View Post
    Killing Floor - Lee Child

    This is the first book in the Jack Reacher series. I have had one of his books (the hard way) for a while(I got it for free somewhere many years ago). I decided to start at the beginning. It turns out this book, while it's the first one published in the series, is not the first one chronologically. I'm going to read it anyway then maybe check out the prequels later. So far so good(about 22 pages in at this point). I never did see the movie(s) and not sure I want to. The main character is supposed to be 6'5 and 250. Tom Cruise is five seven and how much does he weigh?
    I've read 5 or 6 of these, and they're consistently good. It's been a while. I should get back into it soon.
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    Beautiful Things by Hunter Biden

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    I'm currently working my way through the entire 87th Precinct police procedural series by Ed McBain prior to getting rid of the books in a downsizing exercise. McBain (aka Evan Hunter and born Salvatore Lombino) was a prolific writer producing around 100 books - 55 of them 87th Precinct titles. McBain started the series in the mid 1950s with the last one appearing in 2005. It's interesting to see the cultural changes over those 50 years reflected in his writing.

    At the same time I am reading the Vinyl Detective series by Andrew Cartmel. This is about a London record dealer/specialist who, while initially tracking down rare releases, finds himself involved in some previously unsolved mystery. PE members might get a kick out of its setting. I got onto Cartmel because I recently got the Rivers Of London series of graphic novels from my library, noticed that Cartmel was co-author and decided to try one of his novels. I can highly recommend the Rivers Of London books by Ben Aaronovitch (the graphic titles are short episodes taking place in between the events of the novels). The series is urban fantasy - give it a try if you like the idea of a London police constable - Peter Grant - being recruited into the small branch of the Metropolitan Police that deals with magic and the supernatural.

    https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/ed-mcbain/
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    https://www.fantasticfiction.com/a/ben-aaronovitch/
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    Daniel James Brown, Facing the Mountain. This is the guy who wrote The Boys in the Boat... Here he turns his eye to the Japanese-Americans in WW2. Primarily the 442 Regiment, the most decorated in US military historty, which was a segregated regiment of Nisei soldiers, but also their parents and sisters in the infamous "relocation", i.e. concentration, camps; and one brave conscientious objector who refused to go to the camps or sign loyalty oaths on the basis of the Constitution. (He was found guilty, and it took decades before the Supreme Court reversed their decision - or rather another Supreme Court did.) Well written, based not only on records but on interviews with the survivors. It is (so far) really good.
    Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.

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    Quote Originally Posted by per anporth View Post
    The Lifted Veil , by George Eliot - the first SF story ever written? - stunning, either way.
    I'll have to read that - I'm intrigued! Have never read Eliot, I hate to say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff O'Donoghue View Post
    I'm currently working my way through the entire 87th Precinct police procedural series by Ed McBain prior to getting rid of the books in a downsizing exercise. McBain (aka Evan Hunter and born Salvatore Lombino) was a prolific writer producing around 100 books - 55 of them 87th Precinct titles. McBain started the series in the mid 1950s with the last one appearing in 2005. It's interesting to see the cultural changes over those 50 years reflected in his writing.

    https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/ed-mcbain/
    This is another series I've been wanting to get into. I read a few in college, as one of my roommates had a bunch of them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by per anporth View Post
    The Lifted Veil , by George Eliot - the first SF story ever written? - stunning, either way.
    That honor is generally (though not unanimously) accorded to Frankenstein, published several decades earlier. Others go back to Lucretius; still others (and I have some sympathy with them, but hold for Shelley) claim that "SF" didn't exist until Hugo Gernsback invented it (calling it "scientifiction", which, thank Cthulhu, did not last).
    Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.

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    Herman Hesse - Stepenwolf. A wild ride.
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    Wonderful graphic novel edition of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men" with illustrations by Rébecca Dautremer: https://www.thepicturebookagency.com...t-des-hommes-1
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