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[archer]

Attack the Casino's Vulnerable Games --John Gallehon

 

Got it real cheap. About 20 cents. Taking me forever to finish it. It hasn't convinced me to visit the casino...yet. One chapter to go...

[Comic Closet]

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins.

 

Great book.

[Comic Closet]

Just finished Life by Keith Richards and now working on finishing (which I started reading back around Halloween) Alfred Hitchcock Tales of Terror. I'd call it Suspense, rather than Terror, but I guess that title has already been taken.

 

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[jimjum12]

Gideon's Sword by Preston and Childe...... not bad..... GOD BLESS....

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

[Comic Closet]

Wild Apples by Lucinda Franks

[delekkerste]

Just finished reading the 1932 quasi-science fiction novel The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan. Buchan was also the author of "The Thirty-Nine Steps" which was made into an Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name.

 

In Curtain, five guests at a party in the English countryside are chosen by a brilliant-but-eccentric scientist to take part in an experiment which will allow them a brief glimpse one year into the future. The rest of the novel follows the narrator and his interaction with the other subjects of the experiment over the ensuing year. Brilliant stuff, highly recommended.

[Unca Ben]

I just read a small stack (3 actually) of old Travis McGee novels by John D MacDonald. I read a few of his works back in the day so I decided to read a few more, for old times sake.

 

Great crime thriller writing with engaging introspection on the part of the protagonists and a neat perspective of 1960's to 1980's Florida.

Perhaps a bit formulaic since there were so many novels in the series, but MacDonald manages to keep it interesting.

Great entertainment.

 

[nearmint]

Just finished The Woman on the Train, a Gone Girl retread that suggests that you can never truly know your spouse(because they're probably a murderer!), and marriage is very, very bad.

 

Entertaining, yes, but pretty far removed from my reality.

 

But if I'm found dead, my wife did it.

[DavidTheDavid]

The Untold Story about Marvel comics, and The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Does the first one count? I mean, it's not a comic after all.

[Steviehuv66]

"Killing Patton" by Bill O'Reilly.

[rodan57]

[hspahr]

Just finished reading The Peripheral by William Gibson. Phenomenal book. First thing of his that I had read since the original trilogy. Makes me wonder what I missed so I have to go back and read the stuff he wrote between then and now.

[HouseofComics.Com]

Savage Canary, an amazing account of the Danish Resistance in WW II.

 

The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943.

[Steviehuv66]

Savage Canary, an amazing account of the Danish Resistance in WW II.

 

The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943.

 

Just ordered Hitler's Savage Canary's. (thumbs u

[Brandon Shepherd]

Edgar Allen Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

 

Because I don't have that many Bronze Age horror comics to read at the moment.

[dupont2005]

I just finished A Dance With Dragons, thinking of going to the bookstore tomorrow to buy that supplementary Game Of Thrones book. It's almost a coffee table book. A bunch of illustrations and explorations of the history hinted at in the main novels.

[capt hook]

Just finished "A Wrinkle in Time" for the first time. What took me so long?

[delekkerste]

Just finished The Woman on the Train, a Gone Girl retread that suggests that you can never truly know your spouse(because they're probably a murderer!), and marriage is very, very bad.

 

Entertaining, yes, but pretty far removed from my reality.

 

But if I'm found dead, my wife did it.

 

Just finished reading My Autobiography by former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. There are some sports books (like Andre Agassi's autobiography) that can be read and enjoyed by someone who is not necessarily a fan of the sport or the athlete/sports personality. This is not one of those books - you don't have to be a Manchester United supporter (I'm not) to enjoy this book, but you do have to be a fan of football (soccer) and familiar with the English Premier League to really enjoy it.

 

I'm now reading The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins as well.

[Davenport]

The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly and Deadline by John Sandford.

 

[CBT]

Most recent book I read was After The Wind

 

 

 

Most people only know Into Thin Air, which is again being turned into a movie this Fall, with big name Hollywood actors this time. This book tells the same story from the perspective of one of the survivors who turned back at the last minute. Focuses a lot more on the mistakes people made, as opposed to viewing it as bad luck.

 

If you read any of the book, expect to basically read the whole book in one sitting. Definition of a page turner.

Edited March 24, 2015 by CBT