Grabbed me a copy of Frank's best seller and held off reading it. So far I'm really impressed with the lore and characters.

I have not seen the new films though I'm told by friends they are quite good.

What are your thoughts on the Dune book and films adapting from it?

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
2. Parasite by Mira Grant
3. Symbiont by Mira Grant
4. Chimera by Mira Grant
5. How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them by Barbara P Walter.
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. Just After Sunset by Stephen King
8. The Murder At The Vicarage by Agatha Christie
9. Feed by Mira Grant
10. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
11. In The Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace
12. Deadline by Mira Grant
13. Countdown by Mira Grant
14. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
15. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
16. Blackout by Mira Grant
17. Elevation by Stephen King
18. The Woman In Me by Britney Spears
19. It's Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
20. Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
21. The Firm by John Grisham
22. Sitting Pretty The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
23. It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
24. The Last Stand Of The California Browncoats by Mira Grant
25. In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
26. My French Whore by Gene Wilder
27. The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
28. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
29. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
30. Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
31. The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
32. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
33. Verity by Colleen Hoover
34. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
35. The Exchange by John Grisham
36. Double Homicide: Santa Fe, Boston by Jonathan & Faye Kellerman
37. The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
38. No Time Like The Future by Michale J. Fox 39.The Death Cure by James Dashner
39. The Kill Order by James Dashner
40. The Fever Code by James Dashner
41. Dolly Parton Songteller by Dolly Parton with Robert K. Dermann
42. Mean Baby by Selma Blair
43. 1984 by George Orwell
44. The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley
45. A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to The Future by Michael J. Fox
46. Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
47. The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
48. Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
49. Throttle by Joe Hill and Stephen King
50. The Fold by Peter Clines
51. Full Throttle by Joe Hill
52. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
53. The Hollow Places b y T. King Fisher
54. Something Wicked This Way Come by Ray Bradbury
55. Her Little Flowers by Shannon Morgan
56. The Fireman by Joe Hill
57. The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert
58. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
59. Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
60. Theodore Boone The Abduction by John Grisham
61. Yes Man by Danny Wallace
62. Theodore BooneThe Accused by John Grisham
63. Theodore Boone The Activist by John Grisham
64. The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter
65. Theodore BooneThe Fugitive by John Grisham
66. Theodore Boone The Scandal by John Grisham
67. The Assault On Reason by Al Gore
68. Theodore BooneThe Accomplice
69. Gerald's Game by Stephen King
70. Sooley by John Grisham
71. Her Daughter's Eyes by Jessica Barksdale Inclan
72. Mr. Was by Pete Hautman
73. Witch Upon A Star by Angela M. Sanders
74. Christine by Stephen King
75. She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica
76. How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea by Mira Grant
77. When the Crow's Away by Auralee Wallace
78. Neil Patrick Harris Choose Your Own Autobiography
79. Bait and Witch by Angela M. Sanders
80. Seven-Year Witch by Angela M. Sanders
81. Fifth Avenue 5AM by Sam Wasson
82. Calico Joe by John Grisham
83. Ford County by John Grisham
84. Witch and Famous by Angela M. Sanders
85. Gone With the Witch by Angela M. Sanders
86. The King of Torts by John Grisham
87. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
88. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
89. The Ghost Orchid by Jonathan Kellerman
90. How To Win Friends and Influnce People by Dale Carnegie
91. Strange Weather by Joe Hill
92. Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
93. You Like It Darker by Stephen King
94. Zoey is too Drunk for this Dystopia by Jason Pargin
95. Mondy Mourning by Kathy Reichs
96. Envy by Gregg Olsen
97. The Green Man Tales from the Mythic Forest Edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
98. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
99. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
100. Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
101. Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis
102. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
103. Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker

Finished Defiant by Brandon Sanderon, fourth and final book of the Cytoverse series. Really enjoyed it. Recommended to all sci-fi fans. Though do keep it in mind that it is a bit YA-ish, so if you aren't a fan of that, you may not love it.

After that, read couple of books I got for the kid. Mainly read them to stay in the loop of what he is reading and how he is liking it. Also, it's fun to discuss books with him.

First was, the first book in The Breakfast Club Adventures, The Beast Beyond the Fence by Marcus Rashford (The footballer) and Alex Falase-Koya. The protagonist of the series is also named Marcus Rashford, so I am assuming it's named after him.

Second was Accidental Trouble Magnet by Zanib Mian, first book in Planet Omar series. We are reading her newer series Meet the Maliks and liked that, so started her previous series too.

Currently reading Killing Floor by Lee Child, first book in Jack Reacher series. Before that my only Reacher knowledge is from Tom Cruise movies, so enjoying the book now.

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I couldn't find the list in a text copy-able format, so I OCR'd it and tried to do the best I could. I am missing a book somewhere, my count is 675, so I'm assuming I messed something up. Please feel welcome to take, copy, share, request edits, FTFY, as well as make sure these books are still in your library. I haven't read them but the people trying to get rid of them are a bit close-minded and could probably benefit from reading things on this list. Apologies if I've messed anything up. I wrapped the table in a spoiler so your screen doesn't stroke out. Okay, Thanks!!!

For being a bunch of religious ding-dongs, they really missed the bus by keeping 10 books on this list.

I wasn't sure how to name this post so it makes sense, but I'll explain more here.

I say I'm a kinda new reader because, technically, I have read, it's just that most were stuff I hated and was forced to in school. The books I've read for fun have mostly been as a kid, because afterwards I got turned away by the obligativity of reading what are considered classics in my country.

However, since late last year, I've slowly been getting back into reading. For fun this time. I might get criticized for this, but the few I read since then, I downloaded off of the internet. But now I'd like to actually buy them.

With that being said, however, how do you all decide what books to buy? Given that I'm new to (getting back into) reading, I don't exactly have favorite authors that I could make an educated guess that I'll enjoy. Buying a book is a gamble, cause the summary could sound interesting, but the story itself could still be bad. This hasn't been an issue so far, because there's no risk of not enjoying a book if I pirated it. All I would lose would be the time spent on reading however much before I drop it.

I feel like I will end up spending a lot of time pondering about whether I really want X book and reading or watching spoiler-free reviews. How do you decide what to buy? And how often do you end up not finishing a book you've bought?

(An extra question that's of less importance right now, so feel free to not answer to this next one, unless you want to, but paperback or hardcover? What I'm hearing is paperback being more portable, cheaper and comfortable, while hardcover looks way better. Most of the time I'd be reading at home anyway, so portability doesn't matter as much for me. But I would very much like it to be comfortable to hold and all and look great on shelves, so I'm undecided, heh).

This book was extremely good. It's a dark fantasy/horror novella set in the 1920s about a group of people fighting the Ku Klux Klan, but the heroes are witches and sword-wielders, and the Klan is filled with actual, literal demons.

The author is a historian and professor, focusing on slavery and emancipation, and you can tell, because everything feels super realistic and true to the time period. This isn't his first book either, he's done this before: the story is so tightly plotted, the characters are alive, and it's so funny, despite being so horrifying.

Honestly I mostly just wish it was longer.

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Food for thought for sure, From Hell is a complex piece of work with many layers of human emotions, expressions, and delusions.

One thing I particularly like about Alan Moore is his all-pervading kindness to everyone he presents in his works, both villains and heroes, victims and criminals.

So, we see Sir William Gull— a genius, a murderer, deranged to many but sure of his superiority only found his true nature of derangement and inferiority in his visit to a higher plain.

There are some memorable panels and monologues that will keep me thinking for quite a while.

Although Moore used Hinton's fourth dimension as a central concept of this work, he— probably with his modern sense of four-dimensional space understood the fourth dimension as time, whereas Hinton's was an Euclidean one. However, since the Euclidean dimensions are all spatial it may have helped Moore to think along the line where he can craft a simile like the panels above— where he compared the causality with architecture.

A masterpiece!

I was pretty busy last week, so couldn't post the weekly thread. Sorry about that.

Since the last update, I finished Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson, book 3 of the sci-fi series Cytoverse. After that, I continued with the last novella Evershore by Brandon and Janci Patterson. Now reading Defiant, the fourth and the final book in the series.

Also reading Design Patterns, a classic book for software design. While I have read about these online and studied from other sources, I never actually read the actual book. So fixing that now.

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Unshakable Wealth: The Power of Reading

Introduction

Wealth is often measured in terms of material possessions or financial assets, but there is a type of wealth that cannot be taken away: the wealth of knowledge. This wealth is accumulated through reading books, enriching the mind, and expanding one's horizons. Unlike material wealth, the knowledge gained from books grows over time and shapes one's character and outlook on life.

The Journey to Knowledge

From a young age, I began to understand the immense value of reading. Growing up in a modest environment, without the luxury of a personal library or the ability to purchase books, I still found ways to immerse myself in literature. Our family lived in a small, rented house, a single room shared by six people. Privacy was a luxury we couldn't afford, so I often hid outdoors to read in the fading daylight, escaping into the worlds within the pages. Initially, I read indiscriminately, but as I grew older, I became more selective, delving into works that offered deeper insights and understanding.

Literature as a Mentor

Books became my mentors, offering wisdom and guidance. The works of Russian classical literature, particularly from the 19th century, played a significant role in my development. Ivan Turgenev's "First Love" and Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" were not just stories but windows into the human soul, teaching me about the complexities of life, the struggles between good and evil, and the depth of human emotion. These books were not mere entertainment; they were experiences that shaped my thinking and moral compass.

The Importance of Native Literature

While foreign literature is invaluable for broadening one's perspective, it's crucial to have a solid foundation in one's native literature. Russian literature, with its unparalleled depth and richness, stands out globally. Knowing and appreciating the literary heritage of one's own country fosters a deeper connection to one's roots and culture. The tales of Tolstoy and the humor of Chekhov taught me about my own people, our traditions, and our values. They instilled in me a sense of pride and belonging, a feeling of being part of a grand, ongoing narrative.

Reading as a Lifelong Companion

As we age, the spiritual richness that books provide becomes even more important. In solitude, the characters and stories from books become companions, offering endless opportunities for reflection and intellectual engagement. A broad literary horizon ensures that one is never alone in thought, always having something profound to contemplate. In my later years, I find solace in the words of Dickens and Hugo, their stories reminding me of the endless capacity for human resilience and compassion.

The Battle Against Cultural Degradation

In today's world, there's a growing concern about the cultural degradation brought on by mindless entertainment and the overuse of foreign terminologies. Maintaining the purity of one's language is essential as language is a core component of cultural identity. The infiltration of unnecessary foreign words dilutes this purity and, by extension, the culture itself. Our language is a living testament to our history and values. It pains me to see it corrupted by needless jargon when there are perfectly good native terms. Language, much like literature, should be preserved and cherished.

A Personal Note

As a former comrade, born in 1930 and a participant in the Caribbean Crisis, I have witnessed firsthand the power of knowledge and culture in shaping our lives. The experiences from my military service during such a critical period in history underscored the importance of being well-informed and culturally grounded. These experiences, coupled with my love for reading, have fortified my belief that true wealth lies in knowledge and understanding.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the wealth of knowledge gained from reading is unshakable. It shapes individuals, enhances understanding, and enriches life in ways that material wealth cannot. Embracing both native and foreign literature, while preserving the integrity of one's language and culture, ensures a well-rounded and fulfilling intellectual life. Books are more than just pages and ink; they are a gateway to endless possibilities, a bridge to different worlds and eras, and a repository of human wisdom.

Call to Action

To cultivate this unshakable wealth, I encourage everyone to read more and explore the vast landscapes of literature. Start with the classics and expand your reading horizon. Join a book club, share your favorite reads with friends, and support local libraries. Together, let's foster a culture of lifelong learning and intellectual enrichment. In doing so, we not only enrich our own lives but also contribute to a more enlightened and understanding society. Let’s treasure the stories that connect us, the wisdom that guides us, and the knowledge that empowers us.

Question: Please share the last book that impressed you.

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The course of knowledge is like the flow of some mighty river, which, passing through the rich lowlands, gathers into itself the contributions from every valley. Such a river may well be joined by a mountain stream, which, passing with difficulty along the barren highlands, flings itself into the greater river down some precipitous descent, exhibiting at the moment of its union the spectacle of the utmost beauty of which the river system is capable. And such a stream is no inapt symbol of a line of mathematical thought, which, passing through difficult and abstract regions, sacrifices for the sake of its crystalline clearness the richness that comes to the more concrete studies. Such a course may end fruitlessly, for it may never join the main course of observation and experiment. But, if it gains its way to the great stream of knowledge, it affords at the moment of its union the spectacle of the greatest intellectual beauty, and adds somewhat of force and mysterious capability to the onward current.

If not anything else, this spirit (and the execution of it) is an excellent reason to write such a wonderful 32-page pamphlet with striking yet easily understandable ideas.

If you fail to find anything new in this book in regard to the fourth dimension, that is probably because this is one of those works that popularised those ideas.

As the name reveals, this book is a musing/speculation about the fourth dimension.

Hinton's four-dimensional space is an Euclidean one. This shouldn't be confused with the non-Euclidean four-dimensional space like the Minkowski's which was the basis of the Theory of Relativity. Hinton never mentioned time as the fourth dimension and it would've required a paradigm shift on Hinton's part. While it is not the spacetime we know now, it is quite an interesting system.

I liked how— example by example— Hinton built a system of fourth-dimensional space in a few pages which is consistent— complete with physical properties and consciousness, sound in its structure and extremely thought-provoking.

Is there any kind of fiction where multiple stories are connected in a recursive loop? The connection could be a character who writes or narrates the story. e.g.

• story A -> story B
• story B -> story C
• story C -> story A

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Guy Debord was not prophesizing. Quite the contrary. He observed these phenomena in his own time. Our feeling of eerie accuracy of describing our society is due to the fact that the disease is now more acute than ever.

There's no way to deny that symbolism leads the way to abstraction, and abstraction allows us to build broader logical systems. Most of our achievements as a species owes much to that. Money, or state, even most of the philosophies, and ethics are mostly make-believe. But, these are not imaginary either. These are inter-subjectively real.

What Debord labelled as the Spectacles are not merely symbols. They are symbols, which doesn't represent the entity they symbolize. According to Debord these spectacles create a false sense of reality devoid of an underlying layer of synapses to any real interest of life:

2: The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.

It should be noted that this phenomenon is not merely psychological. It is a socio-psycho-economic condition with several feedback loops at work. It creates a tendency to acquire things for status or conformity instead of their intended usability or with complete misunderstanding of what the product really is.

6: Understood in its totality, the spectacle is both the result and the project of the dominant mode of production. It is not a mere decoration added to the real world. It is the very heart of this real society’s unreality. In all of its particular manifestations— news, propaganda, advertising, entertainment— the spectacle represents the dominant model of life. It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choices that have already been made in the sphere of production and in the consumption implied by that production. In both form and content the spectacle serves as a total justification of the conditions and goals of the existing system. The spectacle also represents the constant presence of this justification since it monopolizes the majority of the time spent outside the production process.

A false sense of ownership follows, where in reality we got sold completely. In the digital world, NFTs are just that.

This commodification and subsequent commodification of culture where we try to conform to the dominant way of life brings in to the existence a new type of salespeople with a much shrewd strategy working behind this clueless class:

The admirable people who personify the system are well known for not being what they seem; they attain greatness by stooping below the reality of the most insignificant individual life, and everyone knows it.

Debord didn't have a name for it. We call them the influencers.

What is the way out of it? That I don't really know. This machination is at work for a long time.

The abundance of commodities— that is, the abundance of commodity relations— amounts to nothing more than an augmented survival.

And when even the rebellion is yet another way to conform, we can consider the future pretty bleak.

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What is the Book is About?

Like the prolonged helplessness of its young, like bisexual reproduction, the inevitable fact of death provides one of the great parameters of the human condition. It can neither be “believed” nor “magicked” nor “scienced” away.

That is basically the justification of Thanatology, the subject of this book. The writer covered a lot of her contemporary ground— briefly, but with some interesting insights.

The first of these insights, expounded well in Part I, is about the change of modes and methods of death and dying in modern, technologically advanced Western societies, and how it led us to a prolonged dying phase.

This change leads to changes regarding how a dying person (and people related) can choose (and the limitations on such choices by socio-economic conditions) to die, or live for the remaining of the days.

In Part III, she gave an overview of the then-contemporary movement to help people to die happily.

My Takeaway

The writing is very much descriptive in nature. She tried her best to cast an impartial gaze on the situation. The subject, however, is a cross-school one. This adds some complexity.

Her exploration of modern craft of dying in Part I & Part II were sharp and to the point. It's a must-read, along with The Denial of Death by Earnest Becker, to understand the modern ideas about the death.

However, her portrayal of the happy death movement in the Part III shows the dismal state of affairs on that front. No modern person in their right mind can take Kübler-Ross's “Research” seriously:

Befitting a movement largely composed of presumably secular upper-middle-class professionals, the immortality claim rests not on revelation but on “research.” That is, Kübler-Ross and others know there is an afterlife not as a consequence of any direct communication with a deity but because of “evidence,” such as the following accounts, provided by the recovered “clinically dead.”

This is a deal-breaker for me. Of course, Lofland is mostly a chronicler here, and she had her doubts too.

If I follow the advice of one such movement, I'll have a very unhappy death for sure. Instead, I would like to assume a dying role for me which is based on knowledge and emotional understanding of what it means to be dead.

In an interview with recently deceased author Paul Auster, he says the following:

When I was 9 or 10, my grandmother gave me a six-volume collection of books by Robert Louis Stevenson, which inspired me to start writing stories that began with scintillating sentences like this one: “In the year of our Lord 1751, I found myself staggering around blindly in a raging snowstorm, trying to make my way back to my ancestral home.”

This encouraged me to browse my bookshelf and search for those scintillating first sentences. As it turns out, many of the books that I loved the most really do pack a punch before the end of their first paragraph. Here's my personal selection. Unlike Auster's example, the ones I am sharing do not immediately drop you in the middle of the action, as the number of adventure books on my bookshelf is marginal. However, I do feel they capture a lot about the protagonist and set the tone for the novel.

I would love for you to share yours.

The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster:

I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I traveled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain.

Moon Palace by Paul Auster:

It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but I did not believe there would ever be a future.

The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs

When Reginald Iolanthe Perrin set out for work on the Thursday morning, he had no intention of calling his mother-in-law a hippopotamus.

This is one of those books that added a layer to my being. My admiration to Matsuo Bashō starts here.

Firstly, I think Sam Hamill is an excellent translator. Not only he translated the book, he provided a splendid preface to put things into perspective.

This collection contains two of Bashō's travelogues, and some of his Haikus.

Bashō lived in a war-torn feudal Japan. Travel, naturally, came with quite some danger in the path. His advanced age was not in his favour also. But neither the danger nor the fatigue dissuade Bashō. Instead, soldier's grave brought some haikus and there were Pine forests and Full-moons to wash away his fatigue.

Apart from Bashō exquisite inner-life, another important aspect that shined through the description is how culturally aware the people of Japan were regardless of their class. People used to memorize poems with their context, i.e. who, how, and in what situation wrote it. Prostitutes would find solace in poetry when no one is listening to them. I genuinely regret for not being born in that time and place.

A day late, but better late than never!

Finished Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher. Book 8 of Dresden Files. Loving how the series is progressing. How the characters are growing, and how the stakes keep getting higher and higher.

Currently Reading Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson. Book 3 of Cytoverse / Skyward series. It continues from after Book 2, and we haven't come across the events of the novellas yet. I am interested to see how they will cover those.

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There are only a few books that I've experienced both ways. I'm wondering if this is an area for exploration.

I wonder whether the author discussed the horrors of 19 century capitalism, since he despises "tariff barriers, building regulations and confiscatory taxes".

This book is very concentrated in its form. Myriad ideas got traversed simultaneously— some from historical incidents, some are pure stories, and some are stories about stories— all intertwined to craft a truly musical offering.

So, what this book is about? Art, literature, music, war, destruction, wastage of human life… But, above all, this is a book about hope, about hope and goodness that doesn't wither. It is a book about love that perseveres amidst the toughest of times.

More hunger will come, and more cold and more death. But there are red flowers. This is food for the eyes. Knowing this, every morning will be a child from now on. And every night a womb. With such knowledge, no one can lose a war.

This is also a book of life— how circular it is, yet how many variances it accommodates— like music— through repetition and variation, how it blooms— often awkwardly, through individual lives to something greater than the sum.

Finished Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson. It's first of three novellas written between book 2 and 3 of Cytoverse series.

Finished ReDawn, the next novella after Sunreach, by same authors.

Before reading these novellas, I considered them side stories, which may help expand the universe and give background info about other characters, but nothing big in main scheme of things, but the way story has progressed in these, anyone who miss these will missing out on a lot.

Of course, I have yet to read the next novel, so maybe it will cover some of the important bits, let's see.

After the novellas, I have started Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher, book 8 of Dresden Files. These novels keep getting longer, if I recall correctly, the first few were around 300 or so pages, this one is over 550 pages. Not that I am complaining, they are a fun read, but just an observation.

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Finished Three Days to Never by Tim Powers. First half was pretty dense and slow, but second half, when things were getting obvious, and plans finally getting into motion, were very interesting, and was able to read them in just a few days.

It meets criteria for at least 3 different Bingo boxes, not sure where to place it. Would decide it later. ( @[email protected] We can do that right? Move them around different boxes after reading more books?)

Now I have just started Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson. It's first of three novellas, which are between book 2 and 3. (Well, third novella is generally recommended to be read after book 3, but that's a separate topic). It's a small book, so hopefully will be able to finish it soon.

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Continuing Three Days to Never by Tim Powers, I was around first quarter mark before, but have crossed the half mark now. The books has gotten really interesting, will probably finish this week, if nothing comes up.

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