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What are you reading Chapter 4

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Goldfinger by Ian Fleming.

Light reading before reading the second book I just purchased.

I'm reading Ian Fleming's James Bond series in chronological order. I'm at Goldfinger now.
 
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The Darkness - Ragnar Jónasson

Murder thriller taken place in Iceland. Involves a female police dectective about to go into retirement whose boss lets her have one last case. Picks up a suicide case that has been declared closed, but she suspects sloppy dectective work by one of her co-workers and re-opens as a murder investigation.

OK read. Lots of twists and turns. Reads fast. Lots of sub plot things going on.
I never read this kind of stuff, but was looking for a modern fiction book and asked the librarian to choose something for me = "Well, what do YOU like to read, Mr Librarian?"
 
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dwm74 said:
Always recommend reading them in order, starting with "First Case". That way you get any backstory/bio of the main characters down, although they usually will touch on those in subsequent books.
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Thanks!

Looking again at the link, that was an awfully dopey question I had. If I'm being honest, I totally missed the "series" bit at the top, instead just looking at the book titles themselves. Sorry, I usually try to find easily Google-able things out for myself before asking.

Will check them out. Thanks again!

Edit: And missed the series bit in each book link. They're numbered but I thought it was a list. I guess I needed more caffeine or something when I looked at it first. Ugh.
 
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I recently finished The Gospel According To Luke by Steve Lukather, acquired from my local library. Mostly decent, it's lots of personal accounts throughout his life and career.

I found it a bit eyebrow-raising to read on one page how Lukather would lighthearted/humorously describe how much cocaine he and some of his bandmates regularly did back in the day... and then a few pages later, get on his high horse (no pun intended) about how he thinks it's so horribly wrong that the guys Toto got the reputation of being a bunch of drug users... and how "there's no way those guys could've played on all those sessions if they were doing drugs."

You can't have it both ways, Steve.
 
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The Golden Bowl - Henry James

Gad. Seinfeld had nothing on this guy! So much about nothing! But I kid.

Read Watch and Wand which I really liked, both as a tale and for his writing prowess. Wanted to read more by him and he claimed this his best work. And I can understand why, but still IMO Watch and Wand was better. James considered W&W inferior as it was his first book - it sure was a great frosh outing. Golden Bowl is considered by James and his critics to be "the major phase" of his career.

Good read, but long, slow, and full of detail. Not physical detail like a lot of old writers like Tolstoy, Eliot, Victor Hugo, and Dickens, etc, where scenes and settings are described in minute detail. Instead James is more describing character's thoughts, their fruition, their psychology, and meanderings in greatest detail.

Tale of a wealthy widowed American who lives in England with his only daughter. She's engaged to an impoverished Italian Prince who is kind of a fop. These folks have some busy-body friends who have known all these characters in seperate circumstance for a long time. They also know the daughter's best friend from America, who happens to have been romantically involved with the Prince in his past. So the tangle is just before the wedding the Price and the best friend/ex meet at the busy body's house. The rest of the book is what happens. Oh - but also the "American ex & best friend" marries the wealthy American father.*
And so the book is about marraige, an affair, and how stuff gets sorted out in the highest manner thanks to the absolute graciousness and high value of the daughter. Sound interesting? It really is a good read, but really in depth in character studies, and morals as value judgements, and tension of keeping information as not to damage too bad everboy's relationships. Of course all written is superb high English at of the turn of last century when words were carefully chosen to an exact meaning. Especially fun is the conversational dialogue.

*Hard tale to explain. Wiki explains it a LOT better. :)
 
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Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain - Danny Goldberg

Bio of Nirvana songwriter/singer/guitar player. Birthday present. Quick read. By his manager at DGC. Reads well, fast. All the stories you've heard/witnessed from a close source. His side of experiences and separates wheat from the chaff about his drug use, relationship with Courtney and daughter Bean, and, of course, his suicide.

I grew up in Seattle and was in the originals scene just before the grunge wave hit in 90. Worked in the warehouse at Peaches Records where all of these young cats worked: Screaming Trees, Posies, Supersuckers, Earth - me being the old guy at 35. The Nevermind record release party was in that store. I didn't meet Cobain, or the band, but liked their music. His best friend Dylan worked in the warehouse and I remember the afternoon he said he had bought a shotgun for Kurt at lunch. Too bad Kurt chose to leave so damn young.
 
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I've been reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 ...and I gotta say, it is both astonishing and frightening [edit: actually the word I'm looking for is uncanny] how if you simply changed some candidates' names he could be writing about the 2016 election.
 
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Don’t know if this should be in it’s own thread but, how many still read the King James Bible? My church uses it for all reading and reference, personally I read the New American Standard and lately the New English Bible. Some are aggressively KJ only but that ignores 2000 years of careful father research. Looking forward to quiet and peaceful replies.
 
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2strings2frets said:
Don’t know if this should be in it’s own thread but, how many still read the King James Bible? My church uses it for all reading and reference, personally I read the New American Standard and lately the New English Bible. Some are aggressively KJ only but that ignores 2000 years of careful father research. Looking forward to quiet and peaceful replies.
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This seems a little out of place in this thread, but I'll briefly offer my 2 cents. I prefer the KJV, for 3 primary reasons: (1) accuracy of translation, (2) literary excellence, and (3) historical tradition/widespread familiarity. I do read other versions as well though.

To carry this much further could easily violate TB's rules, and would certainly derail this thread.
 
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