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Pineapple Grenade

Dorsey, Tim
Serge Storms, #15. Serge tries prevent the assassination of a Latin American President. Plus other stuff.

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"The Canadians! Christ!"
"No shit. They scare the hell out of me," said Serge.

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"Where's the rule that says you can't just unilaterally declare yourself a spy and snoop around for no reason?"

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...in dim light that only came from the glowing bars and cocktail tables, fitted underneath with special diodes. -- "Special diodes"? What are those???

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"Federal agent!" Serge flashed his badge. "Open this room! Now!"
"No inglés." -- Why Felicia is right there, why doesn't she translate?

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4/2024

Shark Skin Suite

Dorsey, Tim
Serge decides to become a sort-of paralegal, and so he and Coleman assist Brook on a court case she is involved with.

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5/2018

The BIG Bamboo

Dorsey, Tim
Serge and Coleman go to Hollywood.

Words I Had To Look Up:

(pg. 50) -- A light open-necked cotton shirt, often with large pockets and pleats down the front, that is typically worn outside the pants.

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11/2011

The Maltese Iguana

Dorsey, Tim
Serge Storms, #26. Serge takes on COVID. The Alexa/Seri interaction is hysterical. Fart.

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"It's all there in black and white," said Serge. "You all should read the rules instead of embarrassing yourselves." -- I did this in Monopoly too. People were mad!!

Quote:

The immoral song "Let It Be" was winding down... -- Huh??

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5/2024

The Pope Of Palm Beach

Dorsey, Tim
Serge Storms, #21. Serge goes to a book-signing or two. The library book return gets over-filled. Some coke smugglers get delayed revenge ... or not.

Quote:

Pablo stood still a moment, comprehending the folly of shooting multiple times into anything that's around your neck.

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5/2024

The Riptide Ultra-Glide

Dorsey, Tim
Segre Storms, #16. Recently unemployed teachers Pat and Bar McDougal go to Florida for a vacation, while Coleman finds he is famous.
I feel like I might have read this before, but it's not on the list!

Quote:

"That's wrong," said Coleman.
Serge resumed work on his Spanish fort. "I knew I should have bought those cannons ahead of time."

Quote:

A two-stroke engine gunned.
...
"He's on a motorcycle," said Coleman.
...
"[...]...Now he's offering a ride[...]."
...
"He's gunning the engine again."
...
A final fuel injection of the V-twin. -- A two-stroke V-twin?

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Serge examined the gift. "That is cool. I'm jealous." -- I never figured out what the cool gift was.

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The trio nodded. "I think we got it."
"Repeat it back," said Coleman.
"Use sunscreen; don't do heroin."
Coleman nodded. "Carry on."

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"I didn't invent coffee; I just do what it tells me."

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4/2024

The Stingray Shuffle

Dorsey, Tim
Serge Storms, #5. Serge is still chasing that suitcase, and it takes him on a railroad trip from New York to somewhere in Florida, I forget exactly where.

Quote:

...and a fishing guide named Skip. -- A nod to Hiaasen?

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"... Wait! Look! There's something shiny down there! Help me move these bales of dope."

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"I'm glad I was never part of the drug culture," said Serge, loading an automatic pistol in his lap.
"This isn't about the drug culture--it's about women," said Lenny.

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Serge raised up and exploded: "I did it my way!

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"... As long as you know the gauge conversion, which happens to be three-point-five millimeters to the foot, the rest is easy..." -- I would have gone with scale conversion there.

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4/2024

Tiger Shrimp Tango

Dorsey, Tim
Serge and Coleman go through the self-check aisle at the grocery store, among other things.

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5/2018

Torpedo Juice

Dorsey, Tim
Serge Storms, #7. Serge gets married, almost killed by a serial killer, and, oh yeah, Colman comes back from the dead.

Quote:

"Stop right there," said Serge. "This is beginning to sound like some lame soap opera device to bring back a character they regretted killing off."

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"...To borrow from Fire-sign Theater, Everything You Know Is Wrong..."

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5/2024

Triggerfish Twist

Dorsey, Tim
A nice family moves to their new home on Triggerfish Lane in Florida. Serge, Coleman, and Sharon move in across the street. A very funny book with lots of great quotes. None of which are repeatable here.

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12/2010

Tropic Of Stupid

Dorsey, Tim
Serge Storms, #24. A bit of touching and inspirational religious stuff that made me tear up a bit, amongst the usual shenanigans of Serge and Coleman.

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"That was just wrong," said Sparrow. He didn't mean immoral. He meant tactically short-sighted.

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"Naw." Serge flicked his wrist. "The nearest serial killer is probably a million miles away..."

Quote:

"What's that?" Asked Serge.
"Nettle's baseball card...So he can smell my ass!"

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4/2024

When Elves Attack

Dorsey, Tim
Serge Storms, #14. It's Christmas time in Florida. Will there be any snow this year?

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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
--SHIRLEY TEMPLE

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"How about some ice cream? There's the food court."
"Jim, why do you always think a woman just needs ice cream to put her in a better mood?"
"It doesn't?"
"No, it's true. Where'd you see the ice cream parlor?"

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"Last time you went the wrong way on the interstate. The semi missed us by inches."
"The traffic signs were confusing."
"'Do Not Enter,'" said Eunice. "Yeah that's a mystery for the ages."

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4/2024

The London Eye Mystery

Dowd, Siobhan
Ted and sister Kate try to figure out how their cousin Salim disappeared from the London Eye "Ferris" sort-of-wheel. EDIT--There was no Read date, don't know when I read it!

Words I Had To Look Up:


Oesophagus (pg. 2) -- British spelling of esophagus. Duh!
Shreddies (pg. 5) -- British breakfast cereal, from Post. Looks like Wheat Chex to me!
Lilo (pg. 42) -- An inflatable mattress.
Topological (pg. 45) -- A simplified map not necessarily related to geography. The famous London subway map is an example.
Topographical (pg. 45) -- Basically, has contour lines showing hills and such.
Dialled (pg. 258) -- Same as dialed, I guess.

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No date

Phineas L. MacGuire... Erupts!

Dowell, Frances O'Roark
Third grader Mac is allergic to purple, loves science, and is too old for dinosaurs.

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5/2009

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12/2009

Shooting The Moon

Dowell, Frances O'Roark
Jamie's brother enlists in the Army, to the objections of their officer father, as a medic and is sent to Vietnam. She volunteers at the base rec center and learns to develop and print the photographic film he sends home to her.

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12/2009

The Secret Language Of Girls

Dowell, Frances O'Roark
Sixth-grade Kate is learning about romance, and best friends, and ex-best friends. I really enjoyed this book!

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10/2013

Best of the best 20 years of the years best science fiction

Dozois, Gardner
A whole bunch of stories (37), edited by Dozois, which I cannnot imagine how one pronounces, that were mostly pretty good, some excellent, and a couple I didn't care for. I think my favorite was Even The Queen, by Connie Willis. I remember I read a story of hers in Galileo twenty years ago, and was charmed by it.

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7/2006

Best science fiction stories of the year Sixth annual collection

Dozois, Gardner
Eight stories pub. in 1976 selected by Dozois. John Varleys "Air Raid" Ive read before, it is mind-blowing. "Custer's Last Jump" by Utley and Waldrop goes on a bit, but it's pretty good. Michel Bishops "The Samurai And The Willows" was kinda sad on a very depressing weekend.

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11/2006

The Best Of The Best Volume 2

Dozois, Gardner
Thirteen novellas by various authors. A couple of them I liked a whole bunch. Beggars In Spain, by Nancy Kress, was pretty darn good.

Words I Had To Look Up:

ecopoiesis(pg. 469)-- The creation of an artificially-generated, sustainable ecosystem on a lifeless planet

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2/2010

The New Space Opera 2

Dozois, Gardner
Edited with Johnathan Strahan. Nineteen stories, most of which are too esoteric for my plebeian tastes. My favorites was the Scalzi, but I may be prejudiced.

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11/2012
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