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Post by Andrew on Feb 9, 2014 12:46:50 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Feb 9, 2014 13:33:17 GMT -5
 A wonderful, heartfelt memoir by Linda of her extraordinary life, done in typically modest fashion. Although she only touches momentarily on her ultra-popular 1975-1980 period, this is otherwise quite the compelling book from arguably the most musically influential female pop singer of the last 50 years. She doesn't touch on her Parkinson's condition, but then, she really doesn't need to.    The three definitive books detailing the life and often controversial career of director Sam Peckinpah, from his rustic Central California upbringing, to his years in TV, and eventually to a stunning and frequently jarring film career that included such violent but complex films as THE WILD BUNCH and STRAW DOGS. |
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Post by Andrew on Mar 9, 2014 15:22:04 GMT -5
I've been reading mostly comics/graphic novels lately. Not much recent "super hero" stuff, though the current Moon Knight (which JUST started) and Hawkeye comics are really decent and inventive. I found this book at the flea market yesterday and will probably start it soon:  |
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Post by profblues on Apr 2, 2014 20:07:57 GMT -5
Robert B Parker's "Lullaby: A Spenser Novel by Ace Atkins  Lullaby is the 41st novel featuring Robert B. Parker's fictional detective Spenser. It is also the first official Spenser novel not penned by the noted author, but by Ace Atkins. Atkins was asked to write the novel after the death of Parker in 2010. This novel follows Spenser as he tries to determine the murderer of a teenager's mother some four years earlier. I had put off reading this book since I was a huge fan of Robert B. Parker and this series (I have read all of the previous 40). So far Atkins has kept true to form including the way the regular characters interact with each other. All of the main characters return Spenser, the love of his life psychiatrist Susan Silverman as well as his friend and trusted sometimes partner Hawk, as well as several familiar secondary characters. Ace Atkins is from the South and graduated from Auburn University where he played football and lives on a farm outside Oxford, Mississippi. I was particularly interested in how a fella from Faulkner country wrote about Boston and it's environs. |
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Post by egoodstein on Apr 3, 2014 0:25:28 GMT -5
I also tend to read several books at once, though for the moment very busy and just finishing up this light and fun one by Laura Levine, Killing Cupid. She writes comic mysteries set in LA (& used to be a writer for several successful TV sit coms). Most are well plotted, and involve a lowly ad jingle writer Jaine Austin  skirting clumsily around the edges of various trendy and 'high=powered' LA scenes.This one involves the death of the nasty head of a dating service. More insightful about LA than many serious novels IMO. www.amazon.com/Laura-Levine-Killing-Cupid-11/dp/B00HTK2N1S/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396502876&sr=1-2&keywords=laura+levine+killing+cupidAlso just got & barely started a long historical novel by Helen Hollick about the conflict between William the Conquerer and Harold leading up to the Norman Conquest. It's called I Am the Chosen King, and written from POV sort of of Harold's queen & that of the Saxons. She wrote a very good one of earlier Saxon England, The Forever Queen. So I look forward to this. www.amazon.com/Am-Chosen-King-Helen-Hollick/dp/140224066X |
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Post by profblues on Apr 5, 2014 14:02:27 GMT -5
 the second book this week in the Robert B. Parker "Spenser" series and the second by the estate's replacement chosen to write them Ace Atkins... the third one will be titled Cheap Shot and is due out in May. |
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Post by jhar26 on Dec 13, 2014 4:34:47 GMT -5
 I'm currently reading this trilogy. I'm halfway through the second one. Very good! Better than the movies? I don't know. Of course the books are more detailed, but then books always are. Movies and literature are just two different mediums but I love both. |
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Post by egoodstein on Dec 14, 2014 12:12:32 GMT -5
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Post by jhar26 on Mar 1, 2015 12:39:17 GMT -5
 The latest (and according to many) most important book from conspiracy crazie/genius David Icke. 900 pages plus of it. We are all holograms living in a holographic universe. We are living in a virtual reality - a matrix that is broadcast from Saturn and the moon (the latter of which is not a natural body but a giant spaceship). The entities behind this conspiracy and manipulation are an inter dimensional reptilian race that the gnostics used to call the Archons, the zulus the Chitauri, muslims the Djin and the Christians Demons. These creatures also possess the 13 illuminati families that pull the strings of our leaders in politics, religion, business, banking, etc. All of them are satanists, paedophiles and even serial child killers......And all this just for starters.  Even so, Icke's book is extremely well researched and his narrative of even the most outrageous stuff is so persuasive that it's at least worth consideration and it never gets boring. True or not - this is either the most important news you'll ever hear or a science fiction masterpiece. 10/10 |
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skirting clumsily around the edges of various trendy and 'high=powered' LA scenes.This one involves the death of the nasty head of a dating service. More insightful about LA than many serious novels IMO. 
