Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' thread - July 2016 edition

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

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New thread!

What is your dog reading these days?