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I am currently reading "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
I am sorry, but I couldn´t find the first thread on this subject while search engining... 
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I am currently reading "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
I am sorry, but I couldn´t find the first thread on this subject while search engining...
I know where it is, but that's ok Philipp - most of the folks from that thread are probably seeing Dark Knight for the 3rd time or have probably left the message board.
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Fiction - Getting Home by F M Busby (short science fiction stories).
Non fiction - Mission Impossible: My Life In Music by Lalo Schifrin, ed. Richard Palmer.
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Aug 7, 2008 - 9:32 AM
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In the last month:
Up Till Now - William Shatner ( very funny autobiography)
The 5th Witch & Edgewise - Graham Masterton ( two horror novels,Masterton is a long time favoritee horror author)
The Woods - Harlan Coben ( first Coben book for me, it was pretty darned good, grim and downbeat, am considering reading more from this guy)
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vols 1-4 ( working through these here and there, great, fun stuff - still remember buying Mister Miracle #1 at the drug store wayyyyyy back in the 70's)
I loved Masterton's books as a kid and piled through loads of them, Charnal House, The Manitou, The Devils of D-Day and a whole bunch of others. 'D-Day' was a particular favourite but I made the mistake of re-reading it a few years ago and I shouldn't have, it was awful and badly written, I should have left this as a warm ( and scary ) nostalgic childhood memory.
I must presume Masterton has come a long way since those halcyon days of the 1970's?
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"The Other Side of Me" by Sidney Sheldon
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The new issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (edited by Gardner Dozois). (I happen to love SF...especially in easy-to-digest short stories, novellas and novelettes.)
BIG BOSOMS AND SQUARE JAWS: THE BIOGRAPHY OF RUSS MEYER, KING OF THE SEX FILM by Jimmy McDonaugh (sp?)
EIJI TSUBARAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS by August Ragone. Really nice-looking book, too. Lotsa gorgeous pictures from the "golden age" of the Toho science fiction era of the fifties and sixties. Even if the text was horrid--and it is most assuredly NOT!--I would still recommend the book for it's pictures alone. Phenom stuff!
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"Night Over Water," Ken Follett
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Aug 7, 2008 - 5:15 PM
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MikeP
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I loved Masterton's books as a kid and piled through loads of them, Charnal House, The Manitou, The Devils of D-Day and a whole bunch of others. 'D-Day' was a particular favourite but I made the mistake of re-reading it a few years ago and I shouldn't have, it was awful and badly written, I should have left this as a warm ( and scary ) nostalgic childhood memory.
I must presume Masterton has come a long way since those halcyon days of the 1970's?
He's good but has always been hit and miss - D-Day was also one of my favorites, as was The Djinn, and both seem a bit clumsy nowdays, although for me, Charnel House holds up.
His more recent books are the same, 5th Witch just meanders about, but Trauma is a nice , shorter, taut novel. Leisure books publishes him now, and there are some goodies here and there.
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Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. The second book in the Ender Wiggin series.
Before this, I read Sunstorm (Book Two of A Time Odyssey) by Stephen Baxter and the later Arthur C. Clarke.
Earlier this spring and summer, I started Pedagogy of the Opressed by Paolo Friere. I needed to walk away from it for awhile, and will go back to in a few weeks.
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I know where it is, but that's ok Philipp - most of the folks from that thread are probably seeing Dark Knight for the 3rd time or have probably left the message board.
I haven't seen it once yet.
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Just finished reading James Baldwin's GIOVANNI'S ROOM (A MUST READ) and now reading Scott Smith's THE RUINS.
I wish some company like Merchant Ivory would film GIOVANNI'S ROOM. Or Baldwin's GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, which is equally good, sir!
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