# Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' thread - July 2016 edition

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 29, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-july-2016-edition/758671 "2016-06-29T03:07:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-july-2016-edition/758671/61 "2016-07-27T19:21:11Z")

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I’m on the home stretch in _The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August_ by Claire North and, after bogging down a bit in the middle, the book’s now shifted into high gear. The protagonist is trying to stop his former friend, a scientific supergenius who is now his archenemy, from… well, never mind. No spoilers.

_Wool_ by Hugh Howey was recommended to me - a sf novel about an underground human colony centuries after some unspecified catastrophe ruined the Earth’s surface - but the writing is clumsy and the characters are cardboard-thin.

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-july-2016-edition/758671/62 "2016-07-27T23:31:30Z")

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I finished reading “Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets”, the book that partly inspired the TV shows “Homicide” and “The Wire”. It was interesting to see the workings of a big-city homicide department in the 1980s, although the hard-boiled writing style made me roll my eyes a few times.

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**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-july-2016-edition/758671/63 "2016-07-28T12:55:35Z")

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> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> Ender’s Game.
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> It’s good. It’s just so fucking depressing. Can I stop now? I should finish. I don’t finish books often enough. But Jesus, this one makes me want to shoot myself.

I’m okay with it. You got a hell of a lot further than I did.

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**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-july-2016-edition/758671/64 "2016-08-02T04:46:58Z")

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New thread!

[What is your dog reading these days?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=800094)

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