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    Quote Originally Posted by Trish View Post
    This is my first read of Riddle. I wasn't sure if it was my type of story but I'm actually enjoying it so far.
    My preliminary review of this series is.............blahk (I just made that word up). The first book in the series is pretty good. Love the twists and turns albeit some are a little fantastical but the scientific references and descriptions are great. Overall it was a good read.

    Then I started on the 2nd book and found myself getting frustrated with the BS games that men and women play. Hiding information from each other because they don't want to stress the other person out. really? The world is ending FFS. I doubt there's anything that can top that in the stress department. My second major issue was with the AI. Did they learn nothing at the end of the last book about how the AI could be compromised. It made no sense to me how they could overlook the obvious and not correct that major defect. At that point I lost interest and put the book down. Maybe I'll pick it back up when the world is coming to an end.

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    I've been reading "old stuff" these past few months, by which I mean that I've been re-reading old favorites, at the expense of keeping up with the latest entries in the various series that I follow.

    I'm just finishing up a collection of obscure writings by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but starting tomorrow or Sunday I'm going to start getting caught up with some of my favorite current authors' books.

    Three of the authors always come to Scottsdale for a book signing when a new one comes out, but of course that's not happening now. Craig Johnson's latest Longmire novel, 'Next to Last Stand' is up first, then Ace Atkins' new Spenser novel, 'Someone to Watch Over Me', then Bonnie MacBird's latest Sherlock Holmes adventure, 'The Devil's Due'. In the past I always knew it was time to read the new one when they showed up here.

    Then I'll be reading the latest Holmes story by James Lovegrove, followed by Joe R. Lansdale's new Hap and Leonard book - which actually came out last Summer.
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    Reading some Jack Kerouac.





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    Just read a new Bio of John Steinbeck. Angry man the book points out. Gonna read his Winter of Our Discontent again.

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    Just getting around to reading Harry Harrison's 'Make Room, Make Room' - the basis for one of my favorite sci-fi movies, Soylent Green. They just used the bare bones of the story when they made the film; the protagonist is no Chuck Heston.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    Covid 19: The Great Reset

    I'm about a third of the way in now and it becomes more apparent all the time that this pandemic was planned in order to control humanity via fear.
    I may read that or at least hit the footnotes.
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    "I, Claudius" by Robert Graves





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    'Jungle Tales of Tarzan'. When I'm through with that, I may interrupt my re-reading of Burroughs' Tarzan and John Carter series and read a book I just received from Amazon on the making of the movie Tombstone. Books of that sort can be fascinating if they're well done. I've read excellent books on the making of Blade Runner and Waterworld.
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    Just finished "Charm School" by Nelson DeVille. Its a Cold War tale of a secret Russian school that trains Russian agents how to pass as Americans and infiltrate sensitive government programs. Of course Mr. Midcan5 will take exception to my choice of literature.

    Now I am working on "Wonderland" by Robert J. Parker. Its a Spenser for Hire novel and has no Russians or spies in the plot so it should be acceptable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Booman View Post
    "I, Claudius" by Robert Graves

    I first became acquainted with that book in 1977 when it was run as a series on PBS. It was fantastic. I then read both "I Claudius" and "Claudius The God" which actually made up the TV series. I couldn't put it down and as for the TV series I cut short a visit with an old friend in order to get home to watch another episode! I think Derek Jacobi, the actor who played Claudius just died. There were a few others in bit parts who went on to greater fame, the most notable was Patrick Stewart who played the Roman Sejanus and John Hurt who played Caligula, a most despicable character
    Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
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