Books I've Read
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The Big Five-Oh!
Geist's take on turning fifty. Some funny, a few poignant, some boring, some cursing involved here.
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7/2001
Tuesdays At The Castle
Princess Celie lives with her family in a castle that seems almost alive, adding rooms to itself at a whim, or maybe to a purpose. Very enjoyable adventure!
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8/2014
The Chronicles Of Blarnia
"Hither come and suck a pipe, Turn thy brain to cheese and tripe!" Whoops, wrong book. I borrowed the book from someone who had purchased it for a particular reason, but it turned out they did not need it for that reason, but I wanted to read it. It was no Bored Of The Rings, but it was OK.
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1/2018
Charms For The Easy Life
Story of three women in North Carolina before and during WWII. One of the best books I've ever read.
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7/2016
Idoru
Fourteen-year-old Chia goes to Japan to find out the truth about her idol, the singer Rez, who plans to marry a cyber person. Interesting story. .
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3/2003
Neuromancer
Cyberpunk Case meets enhanced chick Molly, attached A.I. computer on corporate space station. Very cool!
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1/2006
A Tale Dark & Grimm
OMG, I bought this for my little niece, who was perfectly normal, and now she is scared of the dark, and what's under the bed, and books. It's all YOUR fault, Mr. Gidwitz!!
Not really. I enjoyed this very much!
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10/2012
The Inquisitor's Tale
A Canterbury Tale's sort of thing, I think, not that I've read that. It kept my interest, with an especially good ending. A couple of the characters don't seem to act like their Wikipedia articles, but a good story none the less. And very attractively packaged, too.
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12/2016
Pictures Of Hollis Woods
Hollis tends to run away from foster homes. Hard to read the last two chapters with my eyes so wet.
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11/2007
The Joy Of Geocaching
Co-author Dana Gillin. This husband and wife team of geocachers have written a very enjoyable guide to the game. Game?? It's no game, sir!
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2/2013
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Mrs. Pollifax presents herself at the CIA headquarters in Langley to see if they have any openings. First book of the series.
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3/2022
Outliers
Discussions of how successful people (and businesses) may happen. Or not happen. I was particularly taken with the Christopher Langan chapter. Some writers have issues with the author's methods, but It makes one think about things one may have not thought about before. Whew!
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4/2011
What The Dog Saw And Other Adventures
Lots of interesting stuff about pit bulls, mammography, Veg-A-Matics, Enron, and first impressions. And other stuff.
Words I Had To Look Up:
flibbertigibbet (pg. 600) -- A Middle English word referring to a flighty or whimsical person. A word not used often enough!
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10/2010
The Clockwork Scarab
Stoker & Holmes, #1. Young ladies are seemingly killing themselves, with a scarab found nearby. What is the deal?
Quote:
"Miss Holmes," he murmured, his mouth just above my temple, "if you would allow me to lead, we might perhaps find ourselves waltzing a bit more gracefully."Read:
2/2025
The Spiritglass Charade
Stoker & Holmes, #2. Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes investigate spiritualists, murder, vampires, and I don't know what all. A YA (12???-Adult) book, I enjoyed it and will read more of them. No snappy patter to report, oddly.
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2/2025
Space Prison
A shipload of colonists are captured by some enemy aliens, I guess they are. Some are sent off to be slaves, about half get dumped on an Earth-like planet, which isn't so much. Several centuries later their descendants get their revenge, and then some.
Good story, I enjoyed reading it very much. Not familiar with this author, I shall have to see what else they have written.
Quote:
“Well——" Schroeder shrugged his shoulders. "It was my idea.”
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7/2022
Snitch Jacket
Suckered in the title, and then the jacket, with its threatening hairy 'Nam vet grasping a bottle of brew. Interesting story, lots of cursing, laugh out loud funny in parts, but over all a sad story, with a downer ending. But a nice sendup of Burning Man.
Words I Had To Look Up:
studies in American Toughguy manqu (pg. 158) -- Unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition.
Snopes Cow (pg. 180) -- Some sort of weird Faulkner reference. See, this is why this book is good, now I gotta read Faulkner!
Smoke Quote:
He carried a BIC lighter in his sweaty palm, like s sick man with his hand on the call nurse's button. (pg. 16)
Bike Quote:
The law requires you to ride right there on the blacktop... This I refuse to do... Still,when I saw screeching near-misses between cars and people stupid enough to pedal their $3,000, space-alloy machines in the 'bike lane' -- I call it the suicide lane -- I rooted instinctively for the car. (pg. 52)
Quote:
'Where You Can Be An Individual!' (pg. 191)
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7/2009
The Garden Of Eve
Odd story of Evie, whose father moves them to a farm after her mother dies. A farm that seems to have a curse on the apple tree orchard. Having a cemetery next door can't help. And there's that boy, the one that claims to be dead.
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3/2010
Carter Beats The Devil
A very good book about a magician named Carter. Story involves Philo Farnsworth and President Harding. Not the perfect book, but a very satisfying read. Reviewed in Booklist July 2001 pg. 1948.
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12/2001
Beyond The Beyond
An old sci fi show (not unlike Star Trek) is revived, but some fervent fans don't care for the new cast.
Is "light-year" misused on purpose? It's not funny!
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5/2012
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