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#76 2016-12-18 16:52:33
- Chipper
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- From: Charm City
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Re: What Are You Reading?
Turns out I no longer owned a copy of ToC in any form, tattered or clean. I think it got bundled with the lot I dumped at GW prior to the Baltimore move. So I ordered a copy through Abe Books from some dealer in Wisconsin, and what I received in the mail almost takes my breath away. For 6 USD, I received a vintage 1961 Black Cat paperback edition that looks like it was never opened. This book looks like it came directly from the paperback stands of a drug store in 1961. The cover is flawless, the binding is unbroken, and the pages smell like a library. Just amazing. The cover price is 95 cents.
I'm enjoying it so far. Maybe it's age, but I appreciate now more than when I first read it at 19.
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#77 2017-01-31 23:35:26
- woofboxer
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Re: What Are You Reading?
Modernist Estates by Stefi Orazi, a tour through some of Britain's best housing of the 20th century, largely focused on London council estates. I look forward to visiting a few when the weather picks up.
http://www.thingsyoucanbuy.co.uk/modernistestates/modernist-estates-the-buildings-and-the-people-who-live-in-them-today
There was a discount code of 'Modernist20' which gave 20% off anything on her site, not sure if this still valid.
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#78 2017-02-01 01:49:28
- Chief Brody
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Re: What Are You Reading?
Jean-Claude Izzo's Total Chaos. Not a great piece of fiction by a long shot, nor is the translation up to much but it makes me want to visit Marseilles.
#79 2017-02-01 01:56:20
- Chief Brody
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Re: What Are You Reading?
Just finished Bryan Cranston's autobiography. Very well structured. A few gaps in the story of his life but overall its well told. One or two weak chapters but I highly recommend it if you have any interest in the man or the jobbing actors life before it takes traction.
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#80 2017-02-01 04:15:03
- Kingston1an
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Re: What Are You Reading?
'The way we live now' Trollope
Useless, idle aristocrats gambling what they have not got and trying to marry into money to solve their problems.
Dodgy money men a bit like Sir Shifty nowadays.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#81 2017-02-01 05:48:27
- clyde
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Re: What Are You Reading?
Non-fiction I'm reading the Pendulum Years by Bernard Levin, fiction reading the first Ripley book.
#82 2017-02-02 06:08:50
- Patrick
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Re: What Are You Reading?
"Agent Zigzag" by Ben Macintyre, about British double agent Eddie Chapman.
It would have made a good long magazine piece. The book loses a lot of steam in the last third.
Otter : Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon : I thought you were pre-med.
Otter : What's the difference?