# Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' Thread - March 2015 Edition

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-march-2015-edition/713733>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 27, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-march-2015-edition/713733 "2015-02-27T00:10:09Z")\
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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:** [March 31, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-march-2015-edition/713733/121 "2015-03-31T11:59:35Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> And now some more Stephen King. Have started _Salem’s Lot_.

I believe that was the first King book I ever read, back in 77 or 78, which made me about 13. Still scares me 😃

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-march-2015-edition/713733/122 "2015-03-31T15:27:13Z")

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I’m currently reading the new one from Lauren Oliver, [Vanishing Girls](http://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Girls-Lauren-Oliver/dp/0062224107/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427815515&sr=1-1&keywords=vanishing+girls). _shrug_ It passes the time.

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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:** [March 31, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-march-2015-edition/713733/123 "2015-03-31T15:41:17Z")

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I read \*\*As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust \*\* by Alan Bradley. 90% of the book is garbage, filler I suspect because he didn’t really have a plot, so he invented a secret society to initiate his heroine into so she could run around on pointless errands and search for mysterious circumstances until he could wrap up the mystery in the last 40 page. It doesn’t help that the the “overly intelligent, precocious with an enormaous vocabulary” trope has been thoroughly killed, for me, by Elizabeth Peters _shudder_ Ramses. But seriously if you want to use that trope don’t try to convince the readers she’s normal child by making her go all weepy for some 20 pages in the middle of the book.

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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:** [March 31, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-march-2015-edition/713733/124 "2015-03-31T15:47:14Z")

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April Thread: [Bring on the chocolate bunnies!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=753154)

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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:** [April 1, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-march-2015-edition/713733/125 "2015-04-01T02:53:29Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> King mentions Momson in the Prologue, in the newspaper article the as-yet unnamed man reads. I take it that’s a real place then?..

Nope: ['salem's Lot Question - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=111248)

Not a spoiler - it’s not integral to the rest of the book.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-march-2015-edition/713733/126 "2015-04-02T02:54:03Z")

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I see. Thanks.

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