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Fast approaching the halfway point of Hell's Corner and while I'm enjoying it, the plot seems a bit thin in comparison to previous installments in the Camel Club series. Usually, there's so much going on that you often have to flip back through the pages to keep up with the multiple plot lines. But this one is pretty straightforward so far. Still hoping for some interesting twists.

I found the book to be interesting if not a tad bit more in depth but, overall still followed the film pretty well..

The Book of Deadly Animals by Gordon Grice. Dog lovers beware: You might give away your pooch if you read this.

For the umpteenth time.

The Silent World by Jaques Costeau. Found it by chance in an op shop. Fascinating!

Re-reading The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins for the second time (meaning it's the third time I read it).
It's not that I'm slow, but that book has so many little details, particularly when we get to fungi and spores and bacteria and stuff, that I enjoy it almost like it's fresh.
The structure of the book is brilliant as well.
It's my favourite Dawkins book. That and Mount Improbable (the fig wasp chapter is the best essay ever written, imho).

God knows why, I don't even like King. Saw the movie on TV the other day and felt a compulsive need to read the book, which I've had sitting on my shelf for years.

I personally thought it was a decent read. Liked the movie, too.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

It's funny, the movie was destroyed by critics, and King fans in general don't seem to like it much either, but I found it to be one of the better ones. I've seen it numerous times and always seem to watch it when it's on. I can't judge the book since I've just started it, but I'll probably like it if it's one of his least popular and hate it if it's the opposite. I can never seem to agree with the majority on anything.

I read Thinner many years ago and remember it being an entertaining read. I liked the movie as well. I've always felt Robert John Burke is an underrated actor. (Robocop 3 notwithstanding. Ugh!)

It's easy to criticize Stephen King because he has written some atrocious books. (Cell and Christine immediately come to mind.) But when he's good, he's often very good. Carrie, Cujo, Hearts in Atlantis, The Running Man. Those are all old favorites of mine.

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe.

A bit of Poe, and everything seems right in the world.

I'm putting down the Woodward book, I think.
Such sloppy, stupid writing.

He just said that 50 to 75 foreign fighters in Afghanistan was "a magnitude of order below the thousands" that came during the Soviet occupation.

Wow. Just... Wow.

Reading the omnibus for the comic "Hopeless Savages" by Jen Van Meter. It's epic because every time I read the dialogue my inner audio track pulls off a perfect cockney accent. I don't even have to focus on it, the vernacular dialogue of the comic's characters is so obviously British that it's almost impossible NOT to use the accent.