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Post by thekindercarebear on May 28, 2023 20:03:00 GMT
Have you all read this yet?
Totally recommend.
I am going to reread it tonight.
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Post by Captain Spencer on May 28, 2023 21:48:54 GMT
Have you all read this yet? Totally recommend. I am going to reread it tonight. I've read it. Nice change of pace for Koontz.
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Post by thekindercarebear on May 29, 2023 3:25:33 GMT
Have you all read this yet? Totally recommend. I am going to reread it tonight. I've read it. Nice change of pace for Koontz. Koontz really did well with the "asian mother" trope. :)
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Post by theravenking on May 29, 2023 9:51:19 GMT
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merv
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Post by merv on May 30, 2023 20:17:56 GMT
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
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Post by thekindercarebear on May 31, 2023 0:01:34 GMT
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Post by thekindercarebear on Jun 6, 2023 0:21:15 GMT
don't hate. ::)
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Post by yggdrasil on Jun 11, 2023 10:13:57 GMT
Have you all read this yet? Totally recommend. I am going to reread it tonight. Decent read, from before his quality took a complete nosedive 10 or 15 years back.
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Post by yggdrasil on Jun 11, 2023 10:33:48 GMT
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Post by thekindercarebear on Jun 13, 2023 0:19:14 GMT
crazy!
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Post by politicidal1 on Jun 13, 2023 20:11:22 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 13, 2023 22:10:37 GMT
I recently finished Ross Macdonald’s The Galton Case (1959). I know I’m going to sound more negative about this book than I really feel, in large part because it seems like a draft of Macdonald’s later The Chill, which I love. So I want to note at the outset that I enjoyed it a lot, for everything from the silky prose to the penetrating character portraits. The problem is the book’s puzzle plot. It has all of Macdonald’s usual complexity, but it can be, well, too complex. One major red herring pops up way too late—the reader has hardly any time to consider it before detective Lew Archer reveals it’s not the true solution. The real murderer’s identity, meanwhile, is a big surprise—but almost too much of a surprise, as I’m not sure the actions fit the character. I guessed the other big twist, mostly by putting myself in the author’s shoes and figuring out where I would take this story. That’s not a bad thing—it’s a good twist—but, like that red herring, it comes too quickly. I was just putting the twist into context when the book ended. That said, the ending itself is good—a rare ray of hope in Macdonald’s fiction. And Macdonald’s descriptions and dialogue are as great as ever. He and I—we two Sagittarians!—also seem to have similar worldviews, which may be one reason I’d rather read Macdonald over Raymond Chandler. (Chandler, incidentally, hated Macdonald, as the great mystery blogger Curtis Evans documented here.) Despite my carping (which is rather vague, but I don’t want to give the mystery away), I do recommend The Galton Case, which Macdonald considered the book in which he escaped Chandler’s shadow. How can you not love a book with a passage like this?Or, for that matter, this:
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Post by theravenking on Jun 18, 2023 16:48:38 GMT
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Post by theravenking on Jun 25, 2023 10:55:55 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jun 25, 2023 19:26:59 GMT
Star Wars: The Fallen Star by Claudia Gray
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