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Taffin

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1500 on: January 05, 2022, 08:05:25 AM »
Quote from: Taffin on May 22, 2021, 11:59:46 AM

Gentle nudge - what did you think and should I go for it?  Which translation were you reading?  I'm thinking of the Diskin-Clay version for myself, but there's the Hays or Robertson versions - interested to know which way you went

Thanks in advance
Taf

Forgot about this until recently - finally decided to pick up a fairly recent translation (Scribner/Hicks) that's been getting some decent reviews.  At 145 pages it's a pretty slim tome but I'm going to try to take my time with it and savour it a little

I don't do new year resolutions, but for what it's worth this year I'm going to go back to stoic basics - the Western World has gotten far too soft for its own good!  (Now where did I put those coconut matting underpants..? ;D)





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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1501 on: January 05, 2022, 11:30:26 AM »
Quote from: Taffin on January 05, 2022, 08:05:25 AM
Forgot about this until recently - finally decided to pick up a fairly recent translation (Scribner/Hicks) that's been getting some decent reviews.  At 145 pages it's a pretty slim tome but I'm going to try to take my time with it and savour it a little

I don't do new year resolutions, but for what it's worth this year I'm going to go back to stoic basics - the Western World has gotten far too soft for its own good!  (Now where did I put those coconut matting underpants..? ;D)



Good choice!
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1502 on: January 05, 2022, 02:45:13 PM »
Read the whole Walt Longmire series by Graig Johnston.



…all in all very entertaining  8)
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1503 on: January 22, 2022, 06:45:09 AM »
Reading the Charles Box series about Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.

...is ok nothing fantastic but good for winter reading.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1504 on: April 14, 2022, 12:42:10 AM »
Great book ...........about pedo religion
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1505 on: April 14, 2022, 01:10:37 PM »
Quote from: CalvinH on January 22, 2022, 06:45:09 AM
Reading the Charles Box series about Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.

...is ok nothing fantastic but good for winter reading.

I read maybe the first 5 or 6 books in that series then I got kind of bored with it

After that I got into the Doc Ford novels by Randy Wayne Wright and liked those better.  I'm working my way through them:  https://www.fantasticfiction.com/w/randy-wayne-white/doc-ford/
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1506 on: April 17, 2022, 12:50:28 AM »
Dancing Wu Li Masters

Gary Zukav
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1507 on: May 25, 2022, 06:29:39 PM »
Quote from: Straw Man on April 14, 2022, 01:10:37 PM
I read maybe the first 5 or 6 books in that series then I got kind of bored with it

After that I got into the Doc Ford novels by Randy Wayne Wright and liked those better.  I'm working my way through them:  https://www.fantasticfiction.com/w/randy-wayne-white/doc-ford/


Thanks I'll check it out.
I started with the Quin Colson books by Ace Atkins ,which I liked better, then started on the Charles Box series.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1508 on: July 16, 2022, 02:53:06 PM »
All the books I read end up being made into movies or tv series
The Last Kingdom
The Terminal List
The Old Man
The Greyman
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1509 on: August 09, 2022, 11:40:06 AM »
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Dangerous Rhythms - Nice bit of writing on the the history of the Mob, Night Clubs, Jazz and how they all intertwined for decades. 

Also starting this -

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It's a prequel and post novelization of the movie, gave it a quick scan, it's wordy, and not in the way a good noir novel should be, but we'll try it out.

Edit - Happy to report the book did pick up and turned out a nice read. It could use a little editing, and some of the prose didn't flow that well for a sentence here, and a sentence there. But it worked all things considered. Also some of the plot comes together a little too easily. Characters escape too easily, run into each other too easily, etc..... But I've seen established writers do worse.

Rating - 3.75/5.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1510 on: September 18, 2022, 04:01:42 PM »
Ryan Stecks's Fields of Fire
 
...Very good start to a series.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1511 on: November 22, 2022, 07:50:55 AM »
Started First Blood from David Morrell.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1512 on: November 23, 2022, 12:45:43 AM »
Quote from: falco on November 22, 2022, 07:50:55 AM
Started First Blood from David Morrell.
Is it as good as the movie?
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1513 on: January 11, 2023, 04:52:42 AM »
Quote from: Audioslave on May 22, 2011, 10:23:28 PM
Figured it was time for a "What are you reading?" thread.

What's on your bookshelfs or kindleS?

Im not so much into redaing but reading some web novels.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1514 on: February 10, 2024, 07:45:26 PM »
Re-reading some of the Stephan Hunter books about Bob Lee Swagger.
I didn't realize how many throw off lines about music and movies he put in the books.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1515 on: February 11, 2024, 06:10:45 AM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1516 on: March 07, 2024, 12:58:34 PM »
reading is for fags
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1517 on: March 08, 2024, 12:46:30 AM »
Ramtha: The White Book
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1518 on: March 08, 2024, 12:20:27 PM »
Quote from: falco on November 22, 2022, 07:50:55 AM
Started First Blood from David Morrell.

Excellent choice - amazing book - blew me away


Quote from: Humble Narcissist on November 23, 2022, 12:45:43 AM
Is it as good as the movie?

Tough question - no spoilers, but apart from the basic premise of a highly skilled Vet being pursued by the authorities they are very different propositions - both brilliant in their own ways - so no way to pick just one of them - for me anyway

Would totally recommend it though - just don't expect it to feel like the Stallone version
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1519 on: March 08, 2024, 12:23:54 PM »
I'm still nibbling away at this



It was recommended to me a couple of months ago by joswift, and it is an interesting conceit behind the whole thing - that the author is playing a role - but it's like a collection of small chewy pieces... it's taking me some time! ;D
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1520 on: March 09, 2024, 01:17:43 AM »
Quote from: Taffin on March 08, 2024, 12:20:27 PM
Excellent choice - amazing book - blew me away


Tough question - no spoilers, but apart from the basic premise of a highly skilled Vet being pursued by the authorities they are very different propositions - both brilliant in their own ways - so no way to pick just one of them - for me anyway

Would totally recommend it though - just don't expect it to feel like the Stallone version
They had to keep him alive for the sequels.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1521 on: March 12, 2024, 04:58:52 AM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1522 on: March 12, 2024, 06:10:54 AM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1523 on: March 12, 2024, 08:36:00 AM »
In the last 2 months..


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King Shizzo

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1524 on: March 13, 2024, 07:33:46 AM »
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