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What book are you currently reading?

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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #285 on: June 17, 2021, 01:49:48 PM »
Quote from: Shank Asu on June 17, 2021, 01:45:32 PM
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
One of the better books in the series I've read so far.  Getting close to finishing the series now.

It's definitely one of the best in the series.  The last two, You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun, aren't much good.  Sorry.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #286 on: June 17, 2021, 02:18:51 PM »
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Quote from: Shank Asu on June 17, 2021, 01:45:32 PM
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
One of the better books in the series I've read so far.  Getting close to finishing the series now.

It's definitely one of the best in the series.  The last two, You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun, aren't much good.  Sorry.
that's what i've heard.  are they better than Octopussy and The Living Daylights?
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #287 on: June 17, 2021, 02:23:33 PM »
Quote from: Shank Asu on June 17, 2021, 02:18:51 PM
Quote from: John Galt on June 17, 2021, 01:49:48 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on June 17, 2021, 01:45:32 PM
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
One of the better books in the series I've read so far.  Getting close to finishing the series now.

It's definitely one of the best in the series.  The last two, You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun, aren't much good.  Sorry.
that's what i've heard.  are they better than Octopussy and The Living Daylights?

Yes, because the latter two are short stories.  At least with YOLT Fleming explores another country and culture as it's set in Japan, where as TMWTGG retreads old ground in Jamaica once again.  Whoever thought that a Caribbean Island could have been such a hotbed of espionage?





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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #288 on: June 30, 2021, 01:25:53 PM »
The Continual Condition by Charles Bukowski
A short poetry collection released posthumously by Bukowski.  Pretty good.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #289 on: July 15, 2021, 12:54:44 PM »
Red Lights by Georges Simenon
One of his Roman Durs books and set in the US about a husband and wife on an overnight driving trip which unravels as he starts to go on a bender and stops at roadside bars.  Decent.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #290 on: October 12, 2021, 12:44:43 PM »
Finished The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon last week.  One of his roman durs (non Maigret) novels.  Probably my least favorite one that i've read so far.

Now i am halfway through Ian Flemings' You Only Live Twice.  Getting close to the end of the original series now.  So far so good, but not much action yet.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #291 on: October 12, 2021, 01:14:47 PM »
Ends of war : the unfinished fight of Lee's army after Appomattox  - Janney, Caroline E
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #292 on: October 28, 2021, 01:15:25 PM »
Just finished The Flash of Lighting Behind the Mountain a collection of posthumous poems by Bukowski.  Decent collection.  Some of the poems were written in his final days.  
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #293 on: November 29, 2021, 05:29:45 PM »
The Man from Archangel by Georges Simenon
Another good, easy read from Simenon.  A bunch of his books are being re-published in English by Penguin Boos so i ordered a few recently.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #294 on: December 05, 2021, 08:59:03 PM »
What do these books have in common?





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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #295 on: December 06, 2021, 04:16:16 PM »
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What do these books have in common?


i own and have read them all.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #296 on: December 06, 2021, 04:17:05 PM »
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Quote from: MPare1966 on December 05, 2021, 08:59:03 PM
What do these books have in common?


i own and have read them all.
i will guess that they were all banned.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #297 on: December 06, 2021, 04:24:54 PM »
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Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:16:16 PM
Quote from: MPare1966 on December 05, 2021, 08:59:03 PM
What do these books have in common?


i own and have read them all.
i will guess that they were all banned.

Yeah. They’re the most banned books in the US
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #298 on: December 06, 2021, 04:27:53 PM »
Quote from: MPare1966 on December 06, 2021, 04:24:54 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:17:05 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:16:16 PM
Quote from: MPare1966 on December 05, 2021, 08:59:03 PM
What do these books have in common?


i own and have read them all.
i will guess that they were all banned.

Yeah. They’re the most banned books in the US
i didn't know some of those were banned.  trying to figure what's offensive about some of them.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #299 on: December 06, 2021, 06:24:59 PM »
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:27:53 PM
Quote from: MPare1966 on December 06, 2021, 04:24:54 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:17:05 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:16:16 PM
Quote from: MPare1966 on December 05, 2021, 08:59:03 PM
What do these books have in common?


i own and have read them all.
i will guess that they were all banned.

Yeah. They’re the most banned books in the US
i didn't know some of those were banned.  trying to figure what's offensive about some of them.

I'd guess TKAM was banned because of the 'white saviour' angle.

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