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Just finished Morrow's "The Eternal Footman"
In the middle of "Field Guide to Demons and other Malevolent Spiritual Creatures."
Yes, really.
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Well, I'm trying to finish up Dickens' Barnaby Rudge which has been taking me forever. I just finished re-reading the HGttG "trilogy" (well, it was the first time I'd read SO Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, but second time on the other four). I'm also re-reading Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe, but that's a physics book, so I doubt most of you are interested... :-)
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Currently reading Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, then going through all of Jeff Shaara's novels: Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. I'll probably also get Rise to Rebellion from Jeff Shaara too. Can't wait for the movie for Gods and Generals to be made and released.
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Interesting little tidbit about LA Confidential...
Anyone who has seen the film knows that Bud White has a "thing" about helping women in trouble. In the book, his investigation into a string of prositute rape/murders leads him to the Pierce Patchit "movie-star" prostitution rings.
One of the rape/murders Bud investigates is that of a 14-year old Kathy Janeway.
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Wow. Uncanny. Mind you, it's been years since I read what is now generally called the Dudley Smith trilogy - which actually consists of four books, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. All excellent. Then there's the Lloyd Hopkins trilogy (Blood on the Moon, Because the Night and Suicide Hill), the first of which was made into a movie, Cop starring James Woods - again, all recommended. Recently he's turned to the 60s and Kennedy, Cuba, the mob, etc. - in American Tabloid and newly-released The Cold Six Thousand - definitely something I'll be looking to read soon as.
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Incredible, I went to my store to get the HH books and they only had TWO LEFT!!! And entirely wrong volumes, as well. Apparently they've gotten popular... And Robin Hobb was signing books, so it took two minutes just to get out of the goddamn place!
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Er -- Robin Hobb? As in the Farseer Trilogy? I love her work! Not quite so thrilled with the "Mad Ship" trilogy, but I love that it's in the same "world" as the Farseer was set -- !
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Yes, since those A&E miniseries, Horatio Hornblower has really had a boost in popularity.
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I would have to guess "HH" meant "Hitchhiker", given the previous conversation. And their sudden boost in popularity would be due to Douglas Adams' death just over a month ago.
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