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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #375 on: August 22, 2022, 12:00:56 pm »
Catching up on some Tom Clancy "Power and Empire"
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #376 on: August 24, 2022, 06:36:27 am »
Reading Sierra Six by Mark Greaney.  He is the ghost writer for some of the Clancy books since he passed away in 2013.  This is the 2nd book by him that I am reading.  First was compelling.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #377 on: August 24, 2022, 09:12:59 am »
Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clark. 

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #378 on: August 24, 2022, 11:49:15 am »
Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clark.
@Kamaji One of my favorite series.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #379 on: August 24, 2022, 09:56:05 pm »
Currently reading "Freedom's Sons".
It's not about what you think it is (and you probably wouldn't approve)...

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #380 on: August 24, 2022, 10:03:51 pm »
Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clark.

A good read.  Catch all three!  I did just this year.  I read the first Rama when I was in High School.....
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #381 on: August 25, 2022, 08:39:34 am »
Read Clarke in HS, but Bradbury is the author that’s stayed with me most of my adult life.

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« Reply #382 on: August 25, 2022, 09:02:40 am »
A good read.  Catch all three!  I did just this year.  I read the first Rama when I was in High School.....

Trying to see if I can find the next one in a “free” pdf form.  I read it years ago, but can’t find my old copy, and paperbacks have become way too expensive to just buy another copy. 

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #383 on: August 25, 2022, 09:38:58 am »
Trying to see if I can find the next one in a “free” pdf form.  I read it years ago, but can’t find my old copy, and paperbacks have become way too expensive to just buy another copy.

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Do you know any used book stores? I’m sure there might be some amazing ones in your neck of the woods. Does The Strand sell used books?

I’ve found some real bargains when I’ve been at used book stores.
Also libraries have a used book section where they sell old books and all profits go back to support the library,
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #384 on: August 25, 2022, 12:42:28 pm »
Trying to see if I can find the next one in a “free” pdf form.  I read it years ago, but can’t find my old copy, and paperbacks have become way too expensive to just buy another copy.

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3 words. "Used Book Stores".

Also,don't forget to check your local library. They get used books from estates for free,and after they have been checked out a few times,they go up for sale at dirt cheap prices. If they have any,they will be in a special book shelf dedicated to used books.

I honestly can't remember the last time I bought a new book.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #385 on: August 25, 2022, 12:43:44 pm »
@Kamaji

Do you know any used book stores? I’m sure there might be some amazing ones in your neck of the woods. Does The Strand sell used books?

I’ve found some real bargains when I’ve been at used book stores.
Also libraries have a used book section where they sell old books and all profits go back to support the library,

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Didn't mean to step on your toes. I wrote my pretty much identical reply before I saw yours.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #386 on: August 25, 2022, 02:03:57 pm »
I honestly can't remember the last time I bought a new book.

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My father was a vociferous reader, as am I... I don't do books much anymore, because I hate using cheaters...

But, suffice it to say that one of my dad's legacies was in the form of an account at a little back alley used book store. That account has funded myself and my sons - Whatever we want in the way of books - We have not paid a dime in the many years since he passed.

Of course, it is a revolving account - Books bought can be returned (sold back) at a discount... So it isn't exactly that it is free. But neither has it cost a single dime in all this time.

Such a benefit to us all, and he did it all unknowingly. And the bookstore owner could have refused to honor the account after Dad's death, nor his son, who took over when the bookstore owner died... But he did, and he did. That account is the very last active piece of my dad's business in this earth, and it will probably be active long after I am gone. It has turned out to be a wonderful gift.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #387 on: August 25, 2022, 02:14:31 pm »
 I just finished reading a Stuart Woods novel,and the best I can say about it is that it sucked. I have read many of his books,and this is the first one I can say this about.

I kept reading it because I have enjoyed so many of his books in the past,and I kept hoping it would get better.

It didn't.

It was one of those "alter ego" Barrington Stone  novels. BTW,I got it for free out of the bookshelf at the cancer doc's office,and that is where it will be going the next time I go there,along with a few other books.

I will get the actual name and post it here the next time I go to the car.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #388 on: August 25, 2022, 03:32:10 pm »
@Gefn

Didn't mean to step on your toes. I wrote my pretty much identical reply before I saw yours.

No worries @sneakypete
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #389 on: August 25, 2022, 03:32:40 pm »
I just finished reading a Stuart Woods novel,and the best I can say about it is that it sucked. I have read many of his books,and this is the first one I can say this about.

I kept reading it because I have enjoyed so many of his books in the past,and I kept hoping it would get better.

It didn't.

It was one of those "alter ego" Barrington Stone  novels. BTW,I got it for free out of the bookshelf at the cancer doc's office,and that is where it will be going the next time I go there,along with a few other books.

I will get the actual name and post it here the next time I go to the car.

Chiefs was his best work, imho.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #390 on: August 25, 2022, 10:09:55 pm »
Looking for an e-book that's hard to find?

Try...
z-lib.org/

If that doesn't work try...
studentsheart.com/z-library/

(I deliberately made these "un-clickable". You know what to do...)
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #391 on: August 25, 2022, 11:50:20 pm »
Vinegar Makers Handbook.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #392 on: August 26, 2022, 01:12:00 am »
Chiefs was his best work, imho.

@Gefn

His crime novels are excellent,but this book sucked. Apparently there is a whole series based on this billionaire,and I won't be reading any more of them. Not even if they are free.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #393 on: August 26, 2022, 01:22:35 am »
@Gefn

His crime novels are excellent,but this book sucked. Apparently there is a whole series based on this billionaire,and I won't be reading any more of them. Not even if they are free.

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I only read Chiefs. I tried a few other books by him and couldn’t get up into them.

I liked Ed McBain’s police stories.


Same with Walter Moseley’s
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #394 on: August 26, 2022, 06:50:02 am »
@Kamaji

3 words. "Used Book Stores".

Also,don't forget to check your local library. They get used books from estates for free,and after they have been checked out a few times,they go up for sale at dirt cheap prices. If they have any,they will be in a special book shelf dedicated to used books.

I honestly can't remember the last time I bought a new book.
Thrift stores, used book stores, even pawn shops...

I broke down and bought one new book in the past year, just because it was a title unlikely to be found used.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #395 on: August 26, 2022, 08:03:28 am »
Thrift stores, used book stores, even pawn shops...

I broke down and bought one new book in the past year, just because it was a title unlikely to be found used.

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I am such a book junkie that the two tablets I have stay at home unused unless there is a power break,and I need the backlighted option to read. Haven't used either in years,so for all I know the batteries won't take a charge anymore. Truth to tell,I had even forgotten I owned them until I stumbled across them last week while looking for something else.

Tablets are great,but you can't smell or feel the paper.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #396 on: August 26, 2022, 08:40:03 am »
@Smokin Joe

I am such a book junkie that the two tablets I have stay at home unused unless there is a power break,and I need the backlighted option to read. Haven't used either in years,so for all I know the batteries won't take a charge anymore. Truth to tell,I had even forgotten I owned them until I stumbled across them last week while looking for something else.

Tablets are great,but you can't smell or feel the paper.
I agree. I have books from back into the mid 1700s, and nothing feels or smells like that old paper but more of it...Every era has its own feel, smell, and sadly, some of those decades are downright fragile because of the acid content in the paper. But I am with you, that sensation is part of the experience. I am both proud of and a little jealous of my niece, who spent her grad school years in Europe translating medieval manuscripts, stuff far older than I will ever get to handle. Still, the experience would have been wasted on me, simply because I lack her gift for languages.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #397 on: September 07, 2022, 12:14:35 am »
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« Reply #398 on: September 07, 2022, 12:33:10 am »
Thrift stores, used book stores, even pawn shops...

I broke down and bought one new book in the past year, just because it was a title unlikely to be found used.

All of the parks around here have 'Little Free Libraries' where you take a book and leave a book. It's kind of neat and the selection is limited, so I use the local library much more often.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #399 on: September 07, 2022, 12:38:56 am »
All of the parks around here have 'Little Free Libraries' where you take a book and leave a book. It's kind of neat and the selection is limited, so I use the local library much more often.



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The cancer clinic where I get treatment/tests does this. I usually get one and drop off one or two every time I go there.

Which is not as often as it used to be. I went from Stage 4 Terminal to testing negative for Lymphoma after just 3 weeks of starting to take the capsules I wrote about earlier on another thread.

Used to go twice a month for Pet Scans.

Then once a month.

The cancer doc told me today my new schedule is once every 3 months.

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