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What book is everyone reading at the moment? Part 2.

Just finishing 'In Broad Daylight', about the Skidmore, MO killing of town bully Ken McElroy.
 
Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids By Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero

and Invented Knowledge, by Ronald Fritze
 
The Divorce by Rasmus Glenthøj, which sets out to describe Dano-Norwegian cultural identity before and after the dissolution in 1814.
 
herrdocjdm said:
I enjoyed that one, read it a while ago. I can recall the crazy Russian with the sledgehammer.

I have about 50 pages to go in Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Have to say I enjoyed his Ghostwritten much more.
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I just watched the movie Cloud Atlas. A neat weave of 6 stories through different eras and timelines, all connected by common threads. Sci-fi, decent story, action, a bit unique and enjoyable in my opinion.
 
Gallow: The Fateguard Trilogy, 2014, Nathan Hawke

On Live No Limit Cash Games, 2014, Jonathan Little

Wars of the Roses: Trinity, 2014, Conn Iggulden

Magicians Gambit, 1986, David Eddings ( YA is comfort food for the brain to my wife, so I read a bit of something to her most nights before falling asleep. I got to choose this time)
 
Horrorstör by Grady Helix an interesting horror novel set overnight in an Ikea like store. A bit derivative of Campbell's The Overnight though with some interesting illustrations of Ikea-esque BDSM furniture :D
Winds of Change. by Charles S. Jackson. The second in his time travel/alternate history series, this one is set after the Nazi occupation of Britain with Sinister Goings-on happening on a remote Scottish island
 
_Possibilities_ -- Herbie Hancock


I skimmed this, got the gist, in an hour.

It's not terrible for an "as told to" book -- just kind of bland.

I'm not sure if the blandness also comes from Hancock himself -- who comes across as more of an ordinary joe than you'd think -- more interested in cars, women and celebrity (in this telling) than you'd expect.

It is surprising that he got addicted to crack in the late 90's, despite his success, despite his Buddhism, despite everything.

Well, Hancock was always open to a fault. This is the guy who composed all those great tunes, (Like the ones on The Prisoner) but also produced that horrible arrangment of Norwegian Wood.

There's some good stuff about Tony Williams here. But for someone in the know about jazz, it's fairly thin.
 
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I'm well on my way through the Full Facts Book Of Cold Reading. Very impressive book. I guess I was one of those people who thought that cold reading was just observation and vague statments. I had no idea (or at least not nearly as much as I thought) that it was such an intricate skill set.
 
In the interest of helping people (including me) more easily find the books you are reading, please include at least the author, date, and publisher.

Thanks.

xterra, who has read some of the things you all recommend and has usually profited from doing so.
 
Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Author: Cheryl Strayed
Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition (March 20, 2012)
 
I recently finished two somewhat related books:

Blaine Pardoe's The Cruise of the Sea Eagle: The Amazing True Story of Germany's Gentleman Pirate
Jack Finney's Attack on a Queen
Both about maratime piracy, one freelance and fictional the other governmental and very real.
 
I'm reading the black war(about the Tasmanian genocide) ,Carl sagans the dragons of eden and the cruel hunters about the vile dirlwanger ss brigade and also on the second volume of a new trio of books on Alexander the greats military conquests-the army of Alexander,the seiges and the third book is the field campaigns written by Stephen english
 
Finally!

After looking for a good copy for a long time, I can finally read The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr.

It is purportedly the best locked room mystery, so I'm curious.
 
Bram Kaandorp said:
Finally!

After looking for a good copy for a long time, I can finally read The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr.

It is purportedly the best locked room mystery, so I'm curious.
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It is. Dickson/Carr specialised in that sub-genre but many of his stories were fairly mediocre. However The Hollow Man is excellent. The chapter where Fell analyses the locked room genre is a masterpiece in itself (with a bit of fourth wall breaking).
I'm surprised you had trouble finding it, usually it's the only Dickson/Carr that's reliably in print (it's taken me many years to accumulate the others).
Enjoy.


I'm reading Ken Hite's excellent analysis of Nazi occultism, The Nazi Occult. And a couple of books on the Cheapside Horde for an article on 'Stony Jack' Lawrence.
 
catsmate1 said:
It is. Dickson/Carr specialised in that sub-genre but many of his stories were fairly mediocre. However The Hollow Man is excellent. The chapter where Fell analyses the locked room genre is a masterpiece in itself (with a bit of fourth wall breaking).
I'm surprised you had trouble finding it, usually it's the only Dickson/Carr that's reliably in print (it's taken me many years to accumulate the others).
Enjoy.
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Thanks.

The thing is that I wanted to find a version with a nice cover, which I did.

Here it is:

http://www.bol.com/nl/p/the-hollow-man/9200000011778813/
 
Bram Kaandorp said:
Finally!

After looking for a good copy for a long time, I can finally read The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr.

It is purportedly the best locked room mystery, so I'm curious.
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I have always enjoyed Carr's The Nine Wrong Answers, in which nine times there is a footnote saying that if the reader thinks the answer is thus-and-so, the reader is wrong. The tenth time, of course, is the revelation of the mystery.

This is the most overt game between mystery writer and mystery reader that I've seen.

I don't remember if I have recommended The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, published in 1903. It is an interesting novel on several levels, one of which is the depiction of life at sea in a small boat prior to the common use of electricity in such vessels.
 
I've been reading "The Bayeux Tapestry". Can anyone deduce how King William looked from the illustrations? Perhaps they were stock items that were used in embroidery in the 11th century. I suppose William had the same racial look as as the north European Englishmen, the Normans having come from Scandanavia before Normandy. The author of the book said at some point the English were shown with mushtashes while the Normans were not. BTW how does one pronounce Bayeaux. Bayu?
 
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