Koloss
June 10, 2025, 6:14am
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A good friend of mine has been nagging me to read that series. I just have so many others to complete first.
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The nice thing about the Culture series is that the stories in the books are not linked together so you can start out with one without having to worry about forgetting the storyline if you don’t want to read the next one right away.
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Koloss
June 11, 2025, 5:53am
408
Good to know, I started Consider Phlebas last night.
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ruru21
June 11, 2025, 6:55am
409
I’ve never read any Ian M Banks yet he’s one of the great names! Thanks for the prompt!
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ruru21
June 11, 2025, 7:40am
410
True story, first person account of spying behind enemy lines in occupied France during WW2.
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The Moonlight Bay Trilogy is an unfinished trilogy of three novels by Dean Koontz. They revolve around the mysterious events in Moonlight Bay, a fictitious Southern California town, that are investigated by the main character Christopher Snow, who suffers from the genetic disorder Xeroderma pigmentosum.
Only the first two books have been released; no release date is scheduled for the third novel. The books in the trilogy are:
According to a January 14, 2000 interview with Bookreporter.com, Dean...
Wish he would complete this series (I wanna read the third book so bad)
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I absolutely love this series.
Have read all others. Managed get these two from the local library that have eluded me thus far.
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swh
June 13, 2025, 2:36pm
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I was just in town and paid a visit to my bookseller. Picked up this book by T.C Boyle
Original English title: Budding Prospects
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For nostalgic reasons i am reading Martin Chuzzlewit at the moment, by an author whose name can not be mentioned here (his last name is deemed to be offensive apparently. His first name is Charles.)
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The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) is a biographical novel of Michelangelo Buonarroti written by American author Irving Stone. Stone lived in Italy for years visiting many of the locations in Rome and Florence, worked in marble quarries, and apprenticed himself to a marble sculptor. A primary source for the novel is Michelangelo's correspondence, all 495 letters of which Stone had translated from Italian by Charles Speroni and published in 1962 as I, Michelangelo, Sculptor. Stone also collaborate...
you won’t be disappointed
(During his time, he was considered divine because his art was so superior)
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Depending on my mood, one of these at the moment:
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