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Matty01
·Just finished Slayground by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake)
Hardboiled crime fiction and superbly written... taut prose
Hardboiled crime fiction and superbly written... taut prose
WRUR (Reading) Today?
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kidkimura
·https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths-Past/dp/0765377063
Working on this. Has been quite good so far
Working on this. Has been quite good so far
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Tubber
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Unfortunately the greater majority of the younger generation in the UK associate the name Churchill with a nodding dog in an insurance advertisement on the television. In stark contrast to the Great statesman and prolific writer that he undoubtable was.
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ulackfocus
·I just finished reading the floor plan for our new store a few days ago, and have spent all of my time since ordering point of purchase materials, making price & specification tags, setting up the file system, and getting our desk displays together.
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Jking
·I just finished reading the floor plan for our new store a few days ago, and have spent all of my time since ordering point of purchase materials, making price & specification tags, setting up the file system, and getting our desk displays together.
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ulackfocus
·Sounds riveting!
Yes, it was. When you're required to read something as part of your employment, it's forcedly riveting. 😜
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Mouse_at_Large
·Just finished this - enjoyed the trilogy 👍
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ahartfie
··The black sheep in the Spee-ee-eee-eedmaster flockI've been very much looking forward to reading this book by an FB acquaintance since I learned it was coming out. I was a major Tetris addict my freshman year in college when I got my first PC.
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noelekal
··Home For Wayward WatchesIt's a two-fer this week.
"Serving Victoria" by Kate Hubbard
And slogging through "The Beatles Anthology" which has been around the house for years, but I've only perused its photos up to now.
"Serving Victoria" by Kate Hubbard
And slogging through "The Beatles Anthology" which has been around the house for years, but I've only perused its photos up to now.
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Vitezi
·A rather creepy story. Appropriate, I suppose, for the Halloween season.
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peatnick
·The first few chapters were exciting, the prep and eventual demise of Endurance but had to set this down as the trek across Antarctica slogged on
About a third thru this now and enjoying, while I remember the eruption was preoccupied with university and too self obsessed at that age to learn the details
About a third thru this now and enjoying, while I remember the eruption was preoccupied with university and too self obsessed at that age to learn the details
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peatnick
·Given the election excitement recently completed Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard. I enjoyed here tale of TR's near fatal post presidential adventure in the Amazon "River of Doubt". Garfield was only in office four months before being shot though he bravely hung on 2 more months on his death bed.
Now reading a watch related story of the original marine chronometer
Although her claim that "it was by dint of the chronometer that Britannia ruled the waves" is a reach Ms. Sobel has an entertaining writing style
Now reading a watch related story of the original marine chronometer
Although her claim that "it was by dint of the chronometer that Britannia ruled the waves" is a reach Ms. Sobel has an entertaining writing style
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kkt
·About a third thru this now and enjoying, while I remember the eruption was preoccupied with university and too self obsessed at that age to learn the details
I should look for that book. I climbed Mt. St. Helens a few years ago. (Worth doing once, but wouldn't do it again. It's a long slog, and safety prevents going to the very crest, as it's packed snow overhanging the crater below.)
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kkt
·I'm enjoying this one:
An eyes-open comparison of 1st world societies and hunter gatherer societies that survived long enough to be documented by 20th century anthropologists. Both what the traditional societies do better than we do, and what we do better.
An eyes-open comparison of 1st world societies and hunter gatherer societies that survived long enough to be documented by 20th century anthropologists. Both what the traditional societies do better than we do, and what we do better.
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fnfz4
·whats RURW?
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Tubber
·The first few chapters were exciting, the prep and eventual demise of Endurance but had to set this down as the trek across Antarctica slogged on
About a third thru this now and enjoying, while I remember the eruption was preoccupied with university and too self obsessed at that age to learn the details
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Jking
·I'm enjoying this one:
An eyes-open comparison of 1st world societies and hunter gatherer societies that survived long enough to be documented by 20th century anthropologists. Both what the traditional societies do better than we do, and what we do better.
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kkt
·I've had Guns, Germs and Steel on my list for years but something else always ends up ahead on the list. Have you read that yet? If so any feedback?
I liked Guns, Germs, Steel very much. Why did the European societies (and their colonies) end up dominating almost all of the world? Why didn't, say, China end up dominating? Older civilization, even had gunpowder first. Thoroughly researched and convincingly argued, and well written.
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