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Gee, that sounds like fun.
I wonder if there are any brand new books about Star Trek?
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UR by Stephen King
ehh!
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Don Winslow - THE POWER OF THE DOG
Rereading it since the sequel will be released this year. This is an AMAZING crime novel documenting the war on drugs with all factual accounts. A juggernaut!
Micheal Connolly - BLOOD WORK [Terry McCaleb # 1]
Reading all the Harry Bosch novels and currently finished A DARKNESS MORE THAN NIGHT which I didn't realize was the McCaleb # 2 so back tracking. I read THE POET and along with BLOOD and DARKNESS will be all set for Harry Bosch # 10 which connects and closes out the lose ends of THE POET and concludes the McCaleb Trilogy [Blood Word, A Darkness More Than Light, The Narrows].
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
Halfway through it and loving it.
Donna Tartt - THE GOLDFINCH
200 pages deep and I could describe it all in 4 sentences; I have 684 more pages to read. I've read Tartt's THE SECRET HISTORY and liked the book although just like FINCH, the story unfolds REALLY slow but the prose is beautiful and incredibly written.
[Yes, I am reading all 4 simultaneously].
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EDGE OF ETERNITY by Ken Follett
whatta a monumental disappointement!
Think RETURN OF THE JEDI type let down
A GREAT TRILOGY crashes and burns
bruce
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez - LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
Halfway through it and loving it.
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Looking forward to reading this in Spanish at some point. Taking me a long time to get through various Spanish books but I was able to finish The Alchemist in Spanish.
OMG, I'm finally reading books in Spanish this year. I'm Honduran by birth and a fluent Spanish speaker but like many of my generation raised in the USA from age 5 and up [I came at 8 years old] I never tackled reading an entire novel before, just things in the newspapers and magazines. I'm doing a warm up with THE ALCHEMIST, then Junot Diaz's DROWN, and then 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE.
The final book will be The Bad Girl (travesuras de la niña mala) which is a book I've never read so we'll see.
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Feb 10, 2015 - 9:18 PM
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ST-321
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Dave, I will second the read of THE MARTIAN by Andy Weir. To tell you anymore than CinemaScope mentioned would be too much. Suffice to say it is a book that is hard to put down. It is an exciting read and will make a great movie if Scott does a good job with it. For verisimilitude, the author does employ a lot of science, and some of that science went right over my head, but I could follow most of it, and I had to keep reading. Three friends of mine, all guys, read it and loved it. My husband is almost finished with it and loves it.
The Martian was a wonderful book. I brought it with me on a trip to South Korea last fall and I accidentally left it there! I was staying in the middle of nowhere reading and waiting for the time to leave our destination. The time arrived, I put down my book grabbed my bag and took off without picking up the book. I was 2/3 of the way through and had to pick up another copy to finish after I returned home.
I just finished reading Return to Tomorrow. Wow! Such an amazing, deep look at the creation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I am so glad that all this work and history was not lost for the ages. It's a long, long look at the movie, but so worth reading for both Trek fans and for those interested on moving making (and what not to do) from that time period. I am very glad to have read it!
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And Return to Tomorrow is likely to be my next read. I can't wait. 
