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What Are You Reading
About a third of the way into In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah, which I am enjoying as much as the first book I read by him, The Caliph's House. And since it's still the Samhain season, I'm reading Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts From The Darkside by Brad Steiger.- Slate Shannon
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Are You Reading
Currently reading the latest in the Jade series, The Crocodile's Last Embrace by Suzanne Arruda. Also reading Wheels of Fire by Terence Strong, a fictional story of British/UN forces in Bosnia. For the weirdness factor, Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations and Beings From Other Worlds by...- Slate Shannon
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Are You Reading
Currently finishing up Some Lions I Have Met by Gordon Cundill. I gave up on Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama, just couldn't get interested. If a book doesn't hold my interest, I have no problem quitting it rather than slugging it out. Too many other books to read.- Slate Shannon
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Are You Reading
Currently reading The Caliph's House by Tahir Shah, a delightful little book. This weekend I'll probably be starting Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, which I've been meaning to read for quite some time. Bloody Jinn have been playing havoc with my trying to post this message.- Slate Shannon
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What Are You Reading
Even though I don't generally care for biographies, this one has really held my interest so far.- Slate Shannon
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What Are You Reading
I have finished The Ruins by Scott Smith, which was a darn good horror/thriller, and From Baghdad, With Love by Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman, which was okay but not as good as I was expecting. I am currently reading Cat Country by Di Francis, Boneshaker by Cherie Priest and Living...- Slate Shannon
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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Who is Welcome at The Fedora Lounge?
But be aware that there are consequences from being a regular visitor. Even though I only occasionally drop by, I've gone from wearing nothing but t-shirts to mostly wearing shirts with buttons (my logo emblazoned t-shirts are now kept in a drawer and no longer take up valuable closet space)...- Slate Shannon
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Are You Reading
I recently picked up The Altar of Eden, but haven't started it yet. You may want to check out Fragment by Warren Fahy, which I finished a couple of weeks ago. It's more of a remote-island-is-discovered-where-evolution-took-a-very-different-path kind of story.- Slate Shannon
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The Classical Music Thread
Marais -- The Bells of St. Genevieve Saint-Saens -- Danse Macabre Andrea Falconieri --Folias echa para mi Senora Dona Tarolilla de Carallenos Wagner -- just about everything I'm lucky, in that there is a 24-hour, all classical, listener-supported (meaning non-commercial) radio station in...- Slate Shannon
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- Forum: Radio
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The Adventurer's Gear Thread
I've been an Overland Journal subscriber for a while, and enjoy reading it. I'm in the U.S., by the way.- Slate Shannon
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- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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What Are You Reading
I've finishied The Descent by Jeff Long (pretty good, but the ending seemed a bit rushed) and The Doomsday Key by James Rollins (I'm a big Rollins fan). Now I've started Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock. Although I've barely started it, I have a feeling that I'm going to like it immensely...- Slate Shannon
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What Are You Reading
This has made me curious - I wonder how many of the people reading this thread use a digital book device, or plan to acquire one in the future. As a moderately old geezer (50+), I do not now, nor have any plans to own one. Though I do use this inter-web machine in front of me for certain...- Slate Shannon
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Loungers' Pets
Allow me to introduce Sadie. Currently 11 1/2 years old. She does have a little more gray around the muzzle these days, but otherwise she looks the same. a.k.a. Sadie-girl, Miss Peabody or Miss Marks-A-Lot (she likes to let other dogs know when she's been through their neighborhood), or...- Slate Shannon
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- Forum: The Display Case
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What Are You Reading
I'm starting my annual reading of my Most Favorite Book, The Hounds of Heaven by R.W.F. "Willy" Poole, published in Great Britain in 1995 by Nyali Press. The paperback version on the left obviously has a cover designed to sell books, while the hardcover dustjacket on the right is more...- Slate Shannon
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Are You Reading
I read this many years ago, and it is a strange and weird book. It has been available in English for more than a decade, however. My copy is from 1960. I did enjoy it, by the way.- Slate Shannon
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What Are You Reading
Currently, The Ivory and The Horn by Charles de Lint, the fifth de Lint book that I've read. And Treasure of the Golden Cheetah by Suzanne Arruda, the latest Jade del Cameron mystery.- Slate Shannon
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What Are You Reading
If you like tear-jerker dog stories, I just finished one called Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig, and I can certainly recommend it. From a blurb on the cover, "Nop's Trials held me in fascinated suspense to the last page. It is poignant, authentic, and beautiful. This story of a man's...- Slate Shannon
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Are You Reading
Since it's been too hot here to do much of anything else, I've been reading even more than usual. Right now I'm working on Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of the Southwest by David Hatcher Childress, Strange Creatures From Time and Space by John Keel and Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to...- Slate Shannon
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What Are You Reading
I recently finished Lost Oasis by Robert Twigger, which was pretty good. Now I'm a good ways into Mystery Big Cats by Merrily Harpur, which I am really enjoying. A bit of a different approach to the mystery animals enigma.- Slate Shannon
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