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The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
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Just finished REMEMBERINGS by Sinead O'Connor.
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Book about the album TOTAL by group Seigmen.
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The maltese falcon by Hammett. Just finished mildred piece and double indemnity by Caine
Were the books better than the movies?
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Lew Wallace
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A couple of newer books, one fiction and one non-fiction, I've read are:
Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest traces the events and misunderstandings that led to the start of the civil war with much of the story taking place in Charleston, South Carolina, but also across the other southern states and Washington. Many of the things and attitudes Larson writes about still persist today; same with his In the Garden of the Beasts.
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford. A 1920s detective noir with a twist. The setting in Cahokia, Illinois is an alternative to today's Cahokia, which is a collection of dozens of native mounds across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, including the one-hundred foot tall Monk's Mound.
In this novel Cahokia is a vast state in the Union and a large city. Two police detectives investigate a murder. The atmosphere and characters are top-notch. About the title: one of the detectives moonlights as a jazz pianist, plus jazz--with its unpredictability, twists, turns, and seediness.
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