Books I've Read
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Ancestral Night
White Space book 1. Haimy Dz is a partner on a space salvage tug. Good story!
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4/2019
Machine
White Space, #2. I enjoyed this story of space-going EMTs/Doctors very much, except for some of the parts where the characters are thinking.
Quote:
Eat carrots and you'll get nice clean poops. If we lived on a plane, I'd tell you about apples--"
"What's an apple?"
"What you eat every dia to keep the doctor away,"Quote:
" [...] Adulthood begins when you look at the mess you've made and realize that the common element in all the terrible things that have gone wrong in your life is you."Quote:
There's something professionally gratifying about being able to gross out a tentacular tree stump who also happens to be one of the galaxy's most experienced trauma surgeons.Quote:
If the truth destroyed it, it needed to go.Quote:
maybe Tsosie is right and I do float through, a little above and to the left of the real world.Read:
3/2025
Blood Music
A wonderful book. Gave me the same feeling as Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.
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6/1998
City At The End Of Time
A big story, full of cats and books and mysterious peoples doing mysterious stuff. And you gotta love a book that starts out with a Firesign Theatre quote!
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11/2008
Darwin's Children
I found this sequel a real page-turner. I always forget to check for a glossory, and there it is at the end!
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10/2003
Darwin's Radio
Made my head hurt, all that biology! Very interesting story, reminded a little of Childhood's End by Clarke.
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7/2002
Dinosaur Summer
Teenage Peter travels to the "Lost World" of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a expedition to return Circus dinosaurs to their natural habitat.
QUOTE:
"Makes you hate nature, doesn't it?" he said in disgust--pg.254Read:
3/2003
Foundation And Chaos
Part of a trilogy based on the books by Isaac Asimov. Pretty good!
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7/1998
Killing Titan
War Dogs #2. Master Sergeant Venn is back on Mars. For a while, then on to Titan!
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5/2023
Quantico
Techno-thriller. FBI agents search for bio-terrorists.
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5/2007
Take Back The Sky
War Dogs, #3. I was very confused for maybe three-quarters of the story, but the last quarter was pretty readable and good for me.
Quote:
..."F-bombs were strictly limited to military use..." -- Very funny! Quote:
"Welcome back, Skyrine!" she says. -- I liked this part! Read:
2/2025
Vitals
Scientist searches for life extension, uncovers big plot. Pretty good. Explains all those hang up phone calls we get, too.
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4/2002
War Dogs
War Dogs #1. Intriguing story of space marines sent to battle alien invaders on Mars. At least, that is the story told by the alien "benefactors" on Earth...
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5/2023
Agatha Raisin And The Fairies Of Fryfam
Agatha rents a cottage in Fryfam and sees fairy lights in her garden. Of course someone dies. EDIT AUTHORS NAME
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4/2003
A Highland Christmas
A missing cat, a lonely girl, and stolen Christmas lights make Hamish Macbeth's holiday. .
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8/2000
Agatha Raisin and the haunted house
Agatha meets a new neighbor, solves a murder, drives off new neighbor, Charles shows up for a while, annouces at end she is starting a detective agency. About time! CHANGE AUTHOR NAME TO BEATON!!!!
Smoke Quote:
Cigarette?" He pulled out a packet.
You smoke!" exclaimed Agatha with all the delight of one member of an endangered species meeting another.
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7/2005
Agatha Raisin And The Love From Hell
Agatha is married to James, but the marriage is rocky. James girlfriend/psycho Melissa is murdered and James disappears.
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4/2003
Agatha Raisin And The Murderous Marriage
Agatha is about to marry James next door, when her FIRST husband turns up...for a while.
QUOTE:
The rendering of "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" was, Agatha reflected sourly, music to stun pigs by.Read:
6/2000
Agatha Raisin And The Quiche Of Death
Agatha moves to the country after retirement, enters a quiche in a local contest, and the judge dies!!! .
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6/2000
Agatha Raisin And The Terrible Tourist
Agatha goes to Cyprus hoping to reconcile with James after their aborted marriage, but of course someone dies!
QUOTE:
[James says] "What a blabby little thing you are, dear. Why didn't you give him your knicker size when you were at it?"Read:
7/2000
20 books displayed
[Babbit - Baker] [Baldacci - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beagle] [Bear - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beck] [Beck - Black] [Black - Block] [Block - Blunt] [Bo-Reum - Boulle] [Bourdain - Brillant] [Brin - Bryson] [Bryson - Bujold] [Bujold - Bunting] [Burdett - Bythell]