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19 hours ago, rocknroll41 said:

Has anyone on here ever read Dune? Thinking of giving it a try, but I was curious to get a few opinions from here first.

Also recommend Asimov's Foundation Trilogy............he wrote otgher books in the Foundtation story arc but never got around to reading them........

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28 minutes ago, classicrawker said:

Also recommend Asimov's Foundation Trilogy............he wrote otgher books in the Foundtation story arc but never got around to reading them........

Yeah I read the first one and thoroughly enjoyed it! Maybe I'll read the other two in the main trilogy at some point.

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Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner

On ‎1‎/‎31‎/‎2017 at 4:09 PM, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

The Dead Zone bt Stephen King which, if you're familiar with it, is kinda creepy at this juncture in politics!

Yeah, and the tv series was about politics too. I really liked that show. Anthony Michael Hall and Sean Patrick Flannery were in it.

I know I read the book a long time ago, so I don't remember much of it. I read too many books to remember them all. lol

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It has the story of David Boon drinking fifty plus cans of beer on a tour to England and having to be carried off the plane. Apparently down under during the '70s Aussie spectators used to pee in cans of beer and say to the outfield players, ''hey pommie bastard, I've brewed a beer specially for you''. It was an affectionate convict greeting apparently.

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It is interesting. His first book appearing when he was still captain of the West Indies which consequentially does not mythologise the famed West Indian pace quartet (a tendency of modern cricket literature). He actually wished he ''could find a decent spinner to create a more balanced attack'' which goes against common convention remarkably.

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Quite a funny book. Over plays the ''ordinary working class (Accrington) laddishness'' a bit for my tastes but that is his thing I suppose.

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