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Sat Jun-19-10 10:56 PM
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What are you reading the week of June 20, 2010? |
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Bitter Recoil by Steven Havill
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Sat Jun-19-10 11:01 PM
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1. The Book of God and Physics |
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by Enrique Joven.
It's a novel about the Voynich manuscript, which has been around at least 400 years, is written in a completely undeciphered, apparently undecipherable language or code. Quite fascinating.
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Sat Jun-19-10 11:16 PM
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Wilkinson and Pickett/ Recommended by Thom Hartmann.
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Sat Jun-19-10 11:20 PM
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This Body of Death. The White Queen, Phillipa Gregory. Slow Death by Rubber Duck, Rick Smith. Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford. I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish. Nomad by Ayaan Hirslali (I have read Infidel, and may re-read that, too). A Most Wanted Man, Joh Le Carré. I also have A Brief History of Tea, Quantum Leaps, and A Brief History of the Crusades. And yes, that's about 10 days worth of reading. And yes, I've always been that kind of reader.
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Sat Jun-19-10 11:38 PM
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4. Gorky Park. It was good. What a horrible place Moscow must have been to live in back in the 1980s. |
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Edited on Sat Jun-19-10 11:39 PM by applegrove
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Thu Jun-24-10 11:56 PM
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26. (part) of the point of the book was the affection the main character had for moscow |
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Edited on Thu Jun-24-10 11:58 PM by pitohui
i won't comment further (than this one post) because of family member, business/academic interests there at that time but...
i love gorky park but my takeaway isn't how ugly moscow was, it's the sense of place and how hard it is to give up where you're from
the whole series (of which gorky park is the first) is pretty much predicated on how he's not willing himself to flee to the west
is your takeaway from "to kill a mockingbird" how ugly mississippi is? i doubt it!
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Sat Jun-19-10 11:59 PM
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5. Making serious progress on The Passage by Justin Cronin |
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still unputdownable, still kinda scary.
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Sun Jun-20-10 11:24 AM
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10. Waiting for that from the library |
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I've heard so many good things about it.
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Sun Jun-20-10 12:15 AM
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6. "Stalking the Red Bear" by Peter Sasgen |
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Sun Jun-20-10 12:26 AM
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7. Can anyone rec a book involving the lobbying industry (preferably |
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fiction, otherwise, it might be too dry for my tastes.) Thanks.
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Sun Jun-20-10 12:52 AM
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Sun Jun-20-10 01:44 AM
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9. Econometric Analysis by William Greene. |
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Just some light bedtime reading.
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Sun Jun-20-10 11:28 AM
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11. The Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand |
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And I'm waiting for "The 900 Days" by Harrison Salisbury
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Sun Jun-20-10 09:37 PM
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12. Still working on The Remains of an Altar (Phil Rickman) as my bedside book, but |
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my new purse book is Peter Robinson's Close to Home.
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Mon Jun-21-10 12:26 AM
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13. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz |
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Mon Jun-21-10 12:18 PM
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16. An interesting character, I thought. |
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Although I didn't care much for the second book.
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Tue Jun-29-10 01:01 AM
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It was a bit corny and a little too preachy at times but it was entertaining enough. I'll continue reading this series. Koontz' books seem to be becoming increasingly spiritual in nature. I hope he doesn't pull an Anne Rice and go downhill with the quality of his writing.
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Mon Jun-21-10 09:48 AM
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Mon Jun-21-10 11:19 AM
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15. EVEN by Andrew Grant (eom) |
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Wed Jun-23-10 08:35 AM
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21. Quit after 200 pages (out of 330 or so) |
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Too many paragraphs describing in too great detail things I don't think I need to know to enjoy the story. Could be more dialogue and less thought on the part of the main character. Story sounds somewhat familiar - maybe a Bourne book, not sure.
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Mon Jun-21-10 12:27 PM
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17. The Winter of Our Discontent--Steinbeck |
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Edited on Mon Jun-21-10 12:31 PM by JitterbugPerfume
this is my summer for re reading Steinbeck
It is the story of a deeply conflicted man
I am also reading The Clinton Tapes, wrestling with History by Taylor Branch , it is a fascinating accounting of the Clinton years
the story of another deeply conflicted man
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Tue Jun-22-10 10:03 PM
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18. "The Somnambulist" by Jonathan Barnes |
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Tue Jun-22-10 10:32 PM
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19. P.D. James, The Private Patient |
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So far I am really enjoying it.
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Fri Jun-25-10 07:23 PM
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But I love all the Dalgleish novels. (Not sure I spelled that right.)
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Wed Jun-23-10 04:59 AM
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opening up that familiar box of treasures again.
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Wed Jun-23-10 05:58 PM
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22. I just finished Circumference of Darkness |
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Edited on Wed Jun-23-10 05:59 PM by RamboLiberal
I bought it for $6 on my Nook to check how closely it paralled that piece of dreck Beck claims to have authored The Overton Window. The writer of Circumference Jack Henderson was one of Beck's ghost writers. While there were elements and characters that were a bit similiar and a plot of a nuke being detonated in Las Vegas the books were dissimiliar enough that I don't think Henderson completely plagiarized himself. I was surprised that Circumference was actually a decent thriller. Certainly a good summer read. The bad guys in this one were a RW militia looking to overthrow the Bush Govt. In this book they engineered 9-11 only it was supposed to be much more extensive. Only bad part was Bush came out decently though he didn't play that big a role in the book. The computer geek in me liked this book. Synopsis This electrifying debut thriller delivers a gripping tale of Big Brother gone mad amid a modern world on the verge of endless war. Brimming with high-powered suspense, here is the brilliant, frighteningly believable story of three masterminds locked on a breathtaking collision cours—the outcome of which will determine the fate of the United States.
Circumference of Darkness
Twenty-two-year-old Jeannie Reese is a computer wunderkind—and the top architect of next-generation security for the Department of Defense. Her latest brainchild is IRIN, the most powerful surveillance technology ever developed. To date, IRIN has remained ultraclassified and inactive. But on the day a shocking act of terrorism strikes U.S. shores, the presidential order comes to launch Jeannie’s creation against the dark forces behind the attack.
Known only as Phr33k, forty-one-year-old John Fagan is a legendary, reclusive computer hacker. For years he has expertly hidden himself while operating freely within the shadows of the Internet’s background noise. He has remained in complete seclusion despite his infamy as the author of a slew of massive electronic crimes—and despite his long-ago, now eerily prophetic, scenarios of terrorist warfare against America.
Under Jeannie’s direction, IRIN gathers and analyzes endless data—and unearths Phr33k. If she is to stop the next stage of a terror campaign clearly begun years before, Jeannie will have to find the überhacker; but that is only the beginning. For she soon discovers that Phr33k is being held by the leader of a vast terrorist network, who now plans to use this unique genius toconceive and deliver his final, fatal blow: a devastating nationwide wave of unparalleled destruction.
For his part, Phr33k is used to working alone. But all that will have to change.
He has a new challenge, one unlike any he’s faced before: how to provide Jeannie Reese with one outrageous, impossible shot to short-circuit the perfect, unstoppable scheme he so masterfully—and so unwillingly—helped to create.
From the Hardcover edition.
Publishers Weekly
Henderson's uneven debut marks another addition to the growing list of post-9/11 thrillers in which home-grown radical elements within the United States, not Islamic fundamentalists, pose a terrorist threat. Jeannie Reese, a 22-year-old Department of Defense computer genius, has developed a powerful surveillance technology she hopes can thwart an impending attack. The terrorists, led by racist Edward Latrell, who ran for president in 1976, are holed up in a compound in Colorado, though their tentacles of sympathizers stretch all around the country. They plan to hit the U.S. all at once through a highly developed plan of coordinated attacks coast to coast. Reese, however, has assembled a crack team of techies intent on saving the nation and restoring order. Though well researched, Henderson's plot eventually crumbles into confusion and overly technical detail. Along the way, too many silly asides-including the notoriously chaste Reese's fumbling romance and eventual drunken sex with a navy lieutenant-tend to break the otherwise admirable tension. (June 26)
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Circumference-of-Darkness/Jack-Henderson/e/9780553589801/
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Thu Jun-24-10 04:00 PM
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23. "Computer Connection" by Alfred Bester. |
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Thu Jun-24-10 07:37 PM
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24. A STOLEN SEASON by Steve Hamilton (eom) |
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Thu Jun-24-10 09:51 PM
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25. Have you read HEARTSHOT? |
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My library doesn't have it, and I see that it's the first one and it comes just before BITTER RECOIL. Is it any good? http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/H_Authors/Havill_Steven-F.htmlThis site has them all listed. I can get the ones my library doesn't have through inter-library lending. Is it worth the trouble? I'd rather start with the very first one if it is.. Thanks..
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Fri Jun-25-10 05:37 PM
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27. I just read the summary of this book on Amazon. |
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Sounds like some good reading even though I'm not a big mystery reader. I also found this one at your link, which I think I may like better: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0312380712/stopyourekilling:hi:
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Fri Jun-25-10 10:07 PM
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31. I like the idea of the old sheriff, Bill Gastner |
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because I like weird characters and he seems like one. I think I'll order the HEARTSHOT to learn his beginnings.
I will probably avoid the book, RACE FOR THE DYING, because of cataract and knee surgeries and other good stuff, that I try to avoid anything with a doctor in it :) :)
Who needs reminders - I need forgetters when I read :)
Thanks for looking it up tho.
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Sun Jun-27-10 04:47 PM
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I liked it okay. I like the reoccuring character Estelle Reyes Guzman
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Mon Jun-28-10 11:22 AM
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Will start this series soon - just got SHOOT TO THRILL and 61 HOURS (Lee Child) from the library and have finish them before I order any more...
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Thu Jul-01-10 06:34 AM
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35. I just ordered thru interlibrary loan... |
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HEARTSHOT and TWICE BURIED. My library doesn't have them, and I like to go the beginning of a series to find out how the characters got together and how they got so screwed up..
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Fri Jun-25-10 05:39 PM
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28. I purposely did not stop at the library |
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on the way home. I have so much work to do around here this weekend that the last thing I need to do is stick my nose in a book. It would be nice to have one to read at bedtime but I know the temptation would be too great if I had them in the house right now. x(
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Fri Jun-25-10 07:23 PM
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30. "Spies of the Balkans" by Alan Furst |
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