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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2017 11:22:27 GMT -5
On an impulse buy, yesterday I bought Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. I've never read one of her books nor seen any movie based off of one of her books. I want to read it before I watch the new flick that just came out or is coming out.
Last five books I've read: Partner in Crime - J A Jance Origin- Dan Brown Poseidon's Arrow - Clive Cussler All the Missing Girls - Megan Miranda The Western Star - Craig Johnson |
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Post by Mr mastodon farm on Nov 11, 2017 11:42:24 GMT -5
Last books I've read
"Baseball Dads" - black comedy about baseball dads killing other coaches so their kids get more playing time
"Abused by the Yankees" - stories from a Yankee clubhouse attendant who says he was sodomized by a baseball bat, blown by Jeter and Posada and treated like shit
"Heroin Diaries - Nikki Sixx diaries from when he was a junkie
"My Appetite for destruction" - Steven Adler biography
working on "The Arm" during my shit breaks
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 9:08:38 GMT -5
Just finished reading The Visitation by Frank Peretti. Yeah, it sucked. 600 pages of suck. Now I'm reading Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
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Post by EWA Beach PGH Fan on Nov 16, 2017 15:13:07 GMT -5
Reading Howard Cosell's second autobiography now. Have Jim Ross's autobiography and Mick Foley's new Christmas book on tap next.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 17:46:06 GMT -5
Just finished Murder on the Orient Express. Meh, don't see what the big deal is. Agatha Christie is supposed to be some goddess on the crime mystery/suspense genre but I didn't think so.
Just started Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. Hawkins is the author who wrote The Girl on the Train which I also read. TGOTT was also made into a movie. Haven't seen it yet.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 8:44:20 GMT -5
Just finished up Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. Good book, odd writing style. Entertaining, but odd. She titles each chapter after the name of a character in the book and each chapter is written in first person narrative of the person the chapter title is named after. So about 10 different characters, at one time or another, was narrating the story.
Now I'm reading Exit Wounds by JA Jance. If a Paula Hawkins novel could be considered a gourmet hamburger, then in comparison, a JA Jance novel would be the equivalent of a whopper or a Big Mac. But, sometimes junk food is okay. You have to be in the right mood for it.
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Post by EWA Beach PGH Fan on Nov 28, 2017 9:57:30 GMT -5
Just finished Murder on the Orient Express. Meh, don't see what the big deal is. Agatha Christie is supposed to be some goddess on the crime mystery/suspense genre but I didn't think so. Just started Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. Hawkins is the author who wrote The Girl on the Train which I also read. TGOTT was also made into a movie. Haven't seen it yet. Read the book and then saw the movie for TGOTT. IMO both were pretty good. Won't say more cause spoilers and such... |
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Post by Harry Crack on Nov 28, 2017 15:57:16 GMT -5
Just finished Dr. Sleep - Kings excellent sequel to The Shining
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 10:12:09 GMT -5
Just finished Dr. Sleep - Kings excellent sequel to The Shining I didn't know that was a sequel to The Shining. I'll have to check it out. I have two of the Mr Mercedes trilogy. Probably gonna start them after the new year. I read The Stand earlier this year. Fourth time that I read it. If you liked the stand, you should check out Swan Song by Robert McCammon. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 10:15:12 GMT -5
Just finished up Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. Good book, odd writing style. Entertaining, but odd. She titles each chapter after the name of a character in the book and each chapter is written in first person narrative of the person the chapter title is named after. So about 10 different characters, at one time or another, was narrating the story. Now I'm reading Exit Wounds by JA Jance. If a Paula Hawkins novel could be considered a gourmet hamburger, then in comparison, a JA Jance novel would be the equivalent of a whopper or a Big Mac. But, sometimes junk food is okay. You have to be in the right mood for it. Finished Exit Wounds (JA Jance). Meh. It was okay. Certainly not a creative piece of work, more like a classic paperback murder-mystery. Now I'm reading the Dirk Pitt novel, Havana Storm, by Clive Cussler. The book cover shows that he co-wrote the book with his son Dirk Cussler. But this book is clearly not vintage Clive. The quality is considerably down from his earlier stuff. |
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Post by Mr mastodon farm on Apr 20, 2018 17:40:43 GMT -5
started Trouble Boys a few days ago
Thirty-five years after the release of their debut album, comes the definitive biography of one of the last great rock ‘n’ roll bands of the twentieth century: The Replacements. Written with the participation of the group’s key members, including reclusive singer-songwriter Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, and the family of late guitarist Bob Stinson, Trouble Boys is a deeply intimate portrait, revealing the primal factors and forces – addiction, abuse, fear – that would shape one of the most brilliant and notoriously self-destructive groups of all-time.
Based on a decade of research and reporting, hundreds of interviews (with family, friends, managers, producers and musical colleagues), as well as full access to the Replacements’ archives at Twin/Tone and Warner Bros. Records, author Bob Mehr has fashioned something far more compelling than a conventional band bio. Trouble Boys is a heartbreakingly tragic, frequently comic, and, ultimately, triumphant epic.
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Post by Canuck eh? on Apr 20, 2018 20:04:43 GMT -5
Wendy Wasserman Schultz's biography.
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Post by EWA Beach PGH Fan on Sept 10, 2018 11:15:12 GMT -5
Book about Bush Sr. The most interesting part was all the fighting behind closed doors that went on in the Republican party.
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Post by Stormy Rottman: RIP Backroads on Mar 5, 2019 17:40:29 GMT -5
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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