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Fawkesfan1 · Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 3:06 pm Post subject:

What are some books you've read lately?

I just got done reading Red Rain by R.L. Stine. It's a pretty good thriller by him and a good first venture into adult writing by him.
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Kerowyn · Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 12:27 am Post subject:

ZeroG · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 855 Location: USA

An old "hard" science fiction classic: Inherit the Stars by James Hogan.

Great story, with an original theory on how the asteroid belt was formed and why the Neanderthals never had a chance against the Cro-Magnons. And how Neil Armstrong wasn't the first human to walk on the Moon!
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Winter_vs_Summer · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 682 Location: Where it's warm

The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb - the real story behind the famous folk song "Hang down your head Tom Dooley". Well researched, fascinating.
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Oerba Dia Vanille · Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:42 am Post subject:

I've just finished (re)reading Billy by Pamela Stephenson, a biography of one of my favourite comedians. It's quite sad in parts, but a very interesting read.
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Stormy Night · Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 662 Location: Traveling

The Sunbird by Wilbur Smith

High adventure, true and less true love, a hint of reincarnation and history repeating itself across the ages, plus legend of a golden lost city. Great entertainment.
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LostInTranslation · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 777 Location: Canada

A Place of Execution by Val McDermid

Good thriller with quite a twist ending (the solution to the crime is quite far-fetched though. For things to have happened that way, there needed to be too many unlikely coincidences.)
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Emmanuel · Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 575 Location: usa

V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton.

I like this "alphabet series" a lot. Kinsey Millhone gets better with every book.
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Lizzie · Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 424 Location: Pemberley

Hannah by Paul-Loup Sulitzer

The story of a White Russian refugee in Paris after the Communist takeover and the fall of the Czar. A guy I "met" on another chat site had bought the book, read it and thought I might enjoy it so he mailed it to me, wasn't that sweet? I enjoyed it, too. Very Happy

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Oerba Dia Vanille · Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:44 am Post subject:

I've just started reading Necrinomicon
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