What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Tue Mar 22, 2022 4:54 pm

Serial detective...Svedish style

Roseanna (1965)
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1966)
The Man on the Balcony (1967)
The Laughing Policeman / Investigation of Murder (1968)
The Fire Engine that Disappeared (1969)
Murder at the Savoy (1970)
The Abominable Man (1971)
The Locked Room (1972)
Cop Killer (1974 )
The Terrorists(1975)

Very engaging quick reads
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Sun Apr 03, 2022 12:55 am

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About Scott's Antartic expedition. Title seems correct. They were insane given their gear.
Mostly directly from the journals which makes the dire experiences very vivid yet spirits stayed high. Amundsen did much better with his gear and reliance on dogs instead of "motors", ponies and dogs plus man hauling. Beat Scott to the pole and lived to tell the tale.

I had not realized how much longer and tougher a journey than the race to North Pole. I do now.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Joe » Sun Apr 03, 2022 5:58 am

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Rereading this. It was thought provoking when I first read it and I wanted to revisit. After 10 years, it is no less thought provoking, although his riff on Smedley Butler made me LOL this time around.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Wisdom requires a flexible mind." - Dan Carlin
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Tero » Sun Apr 03, 2022 11:59 am

Very short book for teens on dinosaurs. His famous book I read a few years back.
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Dinosaurs-Wo ... 0176&psc=1

He has another good book coming out in June
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Reign-Mamma ... e+Brusatte
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Our case for survival before it's too late

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:32 am

Last in the series
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Mon Apr 11, 2022 1:40 am

Satisfying arc that Beck series
onward to something off the wall...
talk about mixed genres :what: - Up for the Nebula this year. :clap: deserved too.

https://www.denofgeek.com/books/donuts- ... mon-stars/

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fascinating ...learned a bunch, laughed a bunch and a few tears. What more can you ask. :coffee:
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Post by macdoc » Tue Apr 12, 2022 1:59 am

Fast paced and intensely interesting ( to me at least ).

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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Looking forward to this
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Joe » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:32 pm

It's an old children's book, but a fun read.

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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Enjoying it
55 hours of listening for about $11.40 US ( we buy a years worth at a time ) ....good narrator and similar to the four Bobiverse novels which are brillant and hilarious.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Sean Hayden » Fri May 13, 2022 2:30 pm

Joe wrote:
Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:02 am
Good book. Spike Lee's movie drew heavily from it.
It's a great read. Even Malcolm's bullshitting is outstanding. It's obvious he lived a great deal of his life in his head, both in the moment as a youth, and later in what must have been a life of near constant reflection.. :cheers:

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by laklak » Sat May 14, 2022 1:47 am

"Your Inner Fish", by Neil Shubin.

Our whole fucking heads are basically embryo shark gill slits. Who knew?
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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