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Post by jbone on Dec 29, 2019 10:00:18 GMT -5
Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes
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Post by whitefang on Dec 29, 2019 10:28:51 GMT -5
Just got done reading today's paper.  Whitefang |
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Post by jbone on Dec 29, 2019 14:25:44 GMT -5
Read some of the Sunday funnies.
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Post by earleg on Dec 29, 2019 17:20:01 GMT -5
I'm finishing up "Far From True" by Linwood Barclay. There are multiple crime mystery situations going on in Promise Falls for PI Cal Weaver
and Detective Barry Duckworth to work through with a bunch of characters in the mix.
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Feb 27, 2020 13:00:45 GMT -5
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Post by jbone on Mar 2, 2020 22:37:23 GMT -5
Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose".
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Post by whitefang on Mar 3, 2020 10:18:49 GMT -5
I read that back in the late '80's. Good read. Whitefang |
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Post by jbone on Mar 3, 2020 11:57:15 GMT -5
They guy is SO long winded. His typing hands must be like vises! Fascinating look into a very weird time in European culture. Very dark.
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Post by earleg on Mar 3, 2020 20:02:28 GMT -5
The Wailing Wind - Tony Hillerman. It is a mystery suspense type in a Arizona and New Mexico setting with Navajo Tribal Police persons
working on a couple homicides. a missing person tied to an alleged historical gold mining vein. I'm about 3/4 through the story on this one.
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Post by jbone on Mar 3, 2020 20:38:43 GMT -5
I've read most if not all of Tony Hillerman's works. To me they are such an eye opener. His daughter is carrying the tradition with Chee, Leaphorn, and Manuelito. And doing a fine job of it!
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Post by earleg on Mar 6, 2020 17:44:12 GMT -5
I've read most if not all of Tony Hillerman's works. To me they are such an eye opener. His daughter is carrying the tradition with Chee, Leaphorn, and Manuelito. And doing a fine job of it! I really like the settings and the characters. In The Wailing Wind a lot of the story involves an abandoned munitions facility with many storage bunkers, Fort Wingate. It is an actual place and most of the storage bunkers are still there along with some other buildings. It is just southeast of Gallup, NM and occupies a very large land mass. It is off the old Rte 66 which apparently is now I-40. Gallup - Fort Wingate NM |
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Post by jbone on Mar 6, 2020 22:31:39 GMT -5
That 4 corners region is desolate but intriguing. I have yet to visit there but see it in my mind's eye thanks to Tony H.
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Post by jbone on Mar 10, 2020 20:58:24 GMT -5
I picked up a book for waiting on laundry. By Daniel Suarez, "Freedom". Near future very technically hip apocalyptic scenario ala the cyberpunk wave of the 90's.
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Post by earleg on Mar 15, 2020 16:43:59 GMT -5
Bloody Genius - John Sandford, Virgil Flowers in a different environment for this one. One main murder mystery surrounded with several
other crimes somewhat related with a bunch of clues, some suspects, but all difficult to put together to find the murderer.
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Post by whitefang on Mar 16, 2020 9:21:31 GMT -5
Just as I watch the same movies more than once, or listen to the same music regularly, I too, read certain books on an annual or more basis.
I'm waiting for my new specs to come in so I can get started on my annual re-readings of KEN KESEY's SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION and Lisa Alther's KIN FLICKS.
Other oft read favorites are Gary Paulsen's WINTERDANCE and Robert Fulghum's ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN.
Whitefang
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