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#2088116 - 07/14/16 08:50 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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The Enemy Inside - Steve Martini
not sure if I will finish, getting close to page 100 and my interest is not piqued...my rule is if I get to page 100 and not into it, then off it goes...
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#2088273 - 07/15/16 03:40 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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I just started the Frankenstein series by Dean Koontz.
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#2088326 - 07/15/16 05:27 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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"City of Bones" (#8 of 18 'Harry Bosch' novels). On occasion I'll binge read a series that focuses on an individual; e.g. Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp (original author only), Jack Ryan, etc. At some point I tire of the invincible hero. (In the case of Reacher, the plots got ridiculous.) However, in this series I would have to say Connelly's writing and story telling have improved over the first 10 years of writing.
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#2088349 - 07/15/16 06:14 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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Ken - have to say that I was impressed with the author who continued the Mitch Rapp character, read just like Vince Flynn. You should give it a shot.
as much as I enjoy reading the Reacher novels, yeah, it is a bit much to swallow these days...
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#2088371 - 07/15/16 06:57 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
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I did try the new author... I kept thinking "I've read this paragraph before." He knows the formula, I just don't think he knows how to vary it.
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#2088915 - 07/20/16 01:09 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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A Conflict of Interest by Adam Mintz, very good read.
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#2088923 - 07/20/16 01:53 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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Enjoyed 11/22/63 very much and potentially answered some "what if?" questions if certain events had not occurred.
Currently listening to Fanny Flagg read her book "Standing in the Rainbow." All of her books (she wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes") are a hoot and a half.
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#2088942 - 07/20/16 02:57 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (Doris Kearns Goodwin). Really interesting so far.
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#2088949 - 07/20/16 03:20 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
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I love Fannie Flagg and I have read everything she has written. If you like Standing in the Rainbow you will also like The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion.
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#2088966 - 07/20/16 03:57 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
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That one was great, too! I've read them all now, I think.
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#2089087 - 07/21/16 12:20 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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Just started 11/22/63.
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#2089089 - 07/21/16 12:24 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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11/2//63
That was the day that J. D. Tippit was murdered.
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#2089090 - 07/21/16 12:29 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
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Aldous Huxley also died on that date
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#2091485 - 08/03/16 11:45 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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Just finished Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen. Her characters ring so true. Her subjects are seldom light and breezy, but she can weave a tale.
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#2091568 - 08/04/16 03:43 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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Just started The Glassblower by Petra Durst-Benning
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#2091574 - 08/04/16 03:52 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
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Ooh, that sounds like a good one.
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#2091579 - 08/04/16 03:56 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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The Killing Floor by Lee Child
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#2091586 - 08/04/16 04:12 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
Elwood P. Dowd
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Finished Riyira Chronicles by Michael Sullivan - LOVED. The ending was especially satisfying.
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#2091593 - 08/04/16 04:28 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
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Finally finished 11/22/63, interesting end.
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#2091783 - 08/05/16 01:30 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
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#2092528 - 08/10/16 05:47 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
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Just started The Glassblower by Petra Durst-Benning This was so good that I inhaled the entire trilogy. Historical romance set in the early 1900's about three sisters and glassblowing in Germany. I would recommend. The writing style really appealed to me.
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#2092634 - 08/11/16 01:13 PM
Re: What are you reading? (2016)
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I'm on Book 3 of the "trilogy in 5 parts" that is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
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