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I'm in the middle of The Maltese Falcon. I'm not really enjoying it that much. It's not terrible, mind you. I'm not yet ready to hurl it across the room but the idea is starting to tempt me.

Maybe the problem is this was written a long time ago in a manner popular to a different age. At this point I don't like Sam Spade much, or the dame with the fluttery handkerchief and I'm starting to rout for the police get their hooks into Spade and take him down a notch. :D

I had always though the movie was though to be good so I figured the book would be better.
 
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolfe
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
At The Mountains of Madness and Other Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
 
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Live Bait by P.J. Tracy
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
The Hit by Jere Hoar
The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen

Library Sale. :)
 
From the library:
Dawnthief (Chronicles of the Raven #1), by James Barclay

I saw they had book 2 there as well, but I decided to show restraint and read the first to see if I like it well enough to continue.
 
Edgar Wallace's The Feathered Serpent. Terry Pratchett's Going Postal. Agatha Christie's The Hollow. From the Library. Christopher G. Moore's The Risk of Infidelity Index. And, Reginald Hill's Ruling Passion, from Amazon.com. Len Deighton's The Ipcress File and Michael Connelly's Chasing the Dime, from charityh shops.
 
The Convict and Other Stories by James Lee Burke
The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen
Mayor's Tongue by Nathaniel Rich
Vespers by EdMcBain
Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Stranger in Paradise by Robert B. Parker
One Day the Ice Will Reveal All It's Dead by Clare Dudman
 
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, winner of the Newberry Medal.

Missed this when younger, but there are adult readers who say it is never too late; so, here goes. :whistling:
 
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle (not my usual cup of tea).
 
Lessee, recently The Strand Volume 8, June to December 1894 and an August 1904 issue of the magazine from book sellers in New York and Colorado, respectively. Several more vintage books and magazines are on the way from a variety of sources.

Dave
 
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