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Vineland

Pynchon, Thomas
Somewhat more readable than V., so far.

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In the interests of cost containment, Takeshi subscribed to the services of Cheapsat, an economy communicatins satellite that was not, like more expensive units, geosynchronous, or parked in orbit always above the same spot on the Earth -- no, Cheapsat instead drifted continually backward through the heavens, always going over the horizon in the middle of people's calls, as it even now was doing.

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2/2001

Balsamic Dreams

Queenan, Joe
Rant on the Baby Boomer generation. Enjoyed listening to the author more than reading the book.

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4/2004

A Cat Was Involved

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery #0.1. A short story that fills us in on some prior history.

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5/2024

A Fistful Of Collars

Quinn, Spencer
A Chet and Bernie Mystery, #5. Narrated by Chet, the dog. A movie production crew comes to down, people start dying.

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"Ever have a B-13 go off right over your head?" -- What is a B-13?

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I pulled a Uey. -- I'd spell it U-ie.

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5/2024

Dog On It

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery, #1. A teenager missing, possibly kidnapped, and the boys are on the job!

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6/2024

Heart Of Barkness

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery #9. The country music scene is explored.

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"When Oksana needs blinis she needs blinis."

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"I was about to commit hari-kiri by means of soduko." -- I just learned about this meme today!!

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5/2024

Mrs. Plansky's Revenge: A Novel

Quinn, Spencer
Spencer Quinn is a pseudonym of Peter Abrahams! A widow gets all her money ripped off over the telephone (one of those scams) so she travels to Romania to get it back. I enjoyed it very much!
I chatted on the internet with a girl in Romania once, you don't suppose...

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"This may sound harebrained," she began.
He interrupted. "That's one expression I've never understood."
"H-A-R-E," said Mrs. Plansky. "Like bunny rabbit."
Max smacked his forehead... "What an idiot!" he said...

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4/2024

Of Mutts And Men

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery #10 The diminishing aquifer seems to be the subject.

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"Whew," Mindy Joe said. "Thought for a second there you were having a stroke."
"That was last week," said Mr. Parsons.

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5/2024

Paw And Order

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery #7 They start out (in the book) in Louisiana, decide to "Go East" to D.C, where Suzie is.

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5/2024

Santa 365

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery #3.1 A fun quick Christmas tale, with elves. Well, an elf.

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5/2024

Scents And Sensibility

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery #8. Someone stole a cactus.

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5/2024

Tail Of Vengeance

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery #0.3/#5.2 The Little Detective Agency is reluctantly get hired to get the goods on a possibly cheating boyfriend. At least, that is where it starts out.

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5/2024

The Dog Who Knew Too Much

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery #4. Chet and Bernie look for a boy who went missing from a camp at Big Bear, but not THAT Big Bear!

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"All you have to do to make this go away forever"--she held up the device--"is your job."
"My job?" said the judge.
"Making sure that justice happens," Suzie said. "Didn't that come up in law school?"

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5/2024

The Iggy Chronicles, Volume One

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery #5.1 Oh no, what happened to Iggy, he's disappeared!

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5/2024

The Sound And The Furry

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery, #6. Chet and Bernie go to hot and humid Louisiana. Suzie pops in at an inopportune moment.

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I made what Bernie calls a mental note. Proust: possible perp, an orange jumpsuit most likely in his future.

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7/2024

Thereby Hangs A Tail

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery, #2. The Little Detective Agency is hired to protect a dog show contestant. Then fired. Then hired again. It's all very confusing!

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6/2024

To Fetch A Thief

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery, #3. The boys end up in Mexico again (or maybe not again, maybe yet? Depends what order you are reading 'em in?) looking for a missing elephant.

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We've still got Crock's AR-15, locked in the safe with all our other guns. -- This would be the safe behind the picture of Niagara Falls? Just how large is this safe, anyway?

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6/2024

Motorcycle Mutt

Radlauer, E. and R. S.
Great little story about John and Kookie the Motorcycle Mutt. I've seen them in magazine articles and in On Any Sunday, now in a book telling their story. I read a scanned copy online.

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4/2022

Waiting For Godalming

Rankin, Robert
Detective solves God's murder. Too clever for me, but I enjoyed the "plinth" part. LATER: Read again. Reminds me of Terry Pratchett, this time around.

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6/2004

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7/2006

Figgs & Phantoms

Raskin, Ellen
Well, that was interesting... Found this one during inventory, hasn\'t been checked out in nearly thirty years. I actually remember the last person who borrowed it! Glad I read it, very nice pictures, but did not think it was fabulous. That is, the second half was too strange for me.

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12/2012
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