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David’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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David Allen
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in The United States
March 14, 1964
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December 2006
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Getting Started
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On Track
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Pomona A to Z
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2014
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100 Years of the Los Angeles County Fair, 25 Years of Stories
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| An audacious concept -- Black resistance fighters in 1920s Georgia battle a literally demonic Ku Klux Klan -- that prefigures "Sinners" in its use of a period setting and juke joints. It's meant to be serious fun, and it is, with some neat ideas in p ...more | |
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| My first exposure to this hard SF master was positive. These are stories from a long span, the 1940s to the '70s, in which scientific principles are at play. As with other stories of that era, they are upbeat, setting up problems that need to be solv ...more | |
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| As a Marvel fan of essentially the same era as the title, I was primed to like this. Amid all the nifty images from original art, comic book panels/pages, photos of the staff, etc., the text, by a key figure of that period, was more extensive than ex ...more | |
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| Well-crafted stories, well above the era's average for sheer style. Most of these are good to very good. "Backward, O Time" is a remarkable cut-up job, a la Burroughs, in which a man's life runs backward, a precursor to PKD's novel "Counter-Clock Wor ...more | |
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| Personally, it didn't bother me that this memoir was almost entirely about how a teenager ended up interviewing so many 1970s rock stars, rather than about his later film career. That could rightly be its own book. I'm interested in the music stuff, ...more | |
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| A hidden opium den frequented by the elite, a mysterious murder, a missing wife and her double, the London art world, a French sleuth who is a master of disguise, the usual Yellow Peril nonsense... this 1915 novel has a lot going on, arguably too muc ...more | |
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| These 1930s-1950s stories remain engaging. "First Contact," about a standoff between an Earth spaceship and an alien spaceship that meet accidentally and don't know if they can let the other leave, is Leinster's most famous. "A Logic Named Joe" is pr ...more | |
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| Of the three Penguin editions, which collect all the stories, this would be the one to get if you're only reading one, as it's got a lot of the best stories, early, middle and late: The Statement of Randolph Carter, Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Call of ...more | |
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| Not bad (despite the title). | |
