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Curveball by Bob Drogin.

So what about those elusive biological WMD's in Iraq? Read all about it here. :cool:
 
Just Finished: All the lives he led by Frederik Pohl. A volcano in Yellowstone blows up, the scene switches to Pompeii for the two thousand year celebration of Mt. Vesuvius's 79 A.D. eruption. What a start! What's going to happen next? The answer is pretty much nothing.
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Serhiy Zhadan, Anarchy In The UKR

Not sure what to make of it. A semi-autobiography of Zhadan, a half-dreaming tumble through a life that began properly when the Soviet Union ended as he turned 18, with Western music and Eastern beer, giant Lenin paintings with tears in them to keep out the daylight, improvised football games against the soldiers who keep demonstrators in check, abandoned bus stations from where you hitch-hike through a country that doesn't know what it is... Poetic, often heart-stoppingly beautiful, but at times also unfocused, hit-and-miss, beendonebefore. I think I like it. I may like most of it a lot more than I don't like slightly less of it.

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Max Brallier, Can YOU Survive The Zombie Apocalypse?

Been a long while since I read a choose-your-own-adventure book. This was fun. Very much not for the kids, very much not for people who've never seen a zombie movie, but you can't help but love a zombie story that has ninjas in the Metropolitan Museum, Hell's Angels cleaning the streets, Comic Con cosplayers vs Comic Con cosplayer zombies, and a Japanese stripper with katanas. Plus, if you play your cards right, you get to decapitate a whole schoolyard of zombiefied children. Not to mention when you find out who the villain behind it all is... :star3:
 
The Sense of an Ending by Frank Kermode. A dense and erudite discussion by a noted lit critter of how "we try to make sense of our lives" in the various forms the novel has taken.
 
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Nicely written introspection by a first person narrator trying to make sense of his life -- the theme providing a closely parallel enough example of the general theme of Frank Kermode's book of the same title to perhaps justify the same title. Interesting. :cool:
 
Finished The Shadow of The Wind. It could have been my ultimate favorite book if it wasn't for some flaws in the plot and the lack of character development. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed reading it and could not put it down until the very last page .
 
Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by T. S. Eliot. Insightful appreciation of one noted poet by another, seeing what this average reader hadn't come close to seeing. Amazing!
Sixtieth book for the year, incidentally. :)
 
canuck said:
Hello brk 3: is this a Bosch book or a lawyer one? Forget the lawyer's name already, short memory.
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Tai_Mai_Shu said:
it's actually more about Terry McCaleb but does feature Harry Bosch. It doesn't feature Mickey Haller the lawyer's name your thinking of.
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sorry canuck I didn't see your post until now.
A Darkness More Than Night is considered the 7th book in the Harry Bosch series and is also the 2nd book in the Terry McCaleb series.
Tai is right the book is more a Terry McCaleb novel but Bosch has a major role. I really enjoyed this one and I rated it right up there with The Concrete Blond (a five star page turner)
 
Stephen King, 11.22.63

Well, it's unmistakably a Stephen King novel, and you learn more than you ever wanted to know about the difference between Maine and Texas dialects, but at the same time it's probably one of the cleverer novels he's written, sneakily undermining itself bit by bit unitl it gets to one of his better endings in recent years. Liked it.

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beer good said:
Stephen King, 11.22.63

Well, it's unmistakably a Stephen King novel, and you learn more than you ever wanted to know about the difference between Maine and Texas dialects, but at the same time it's probably one of the cleverer novels he's written, sneakily undermining itself bit by bit unitl it gets to one of his better endings in recent years. Liked it.

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Glad to hear you enjoyed it. I plan to snag it at the library this week as Mr.Abc and I both starred it in the lastest Bookmarks Magazine.
 
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