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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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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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| 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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| PKD's lumpen proletariat novels of the 1950s are similar in tone and setting, with some falling short and others rising above the median. This is in the latter camp. Admittedly it's hard to see what two women find appealing about Roger Lindahl, a nea ...more | |
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| A well done collection of writings -- nonfiction, fiction, poetry -- about the Mojave, a companion of sorts to the Inlandia anthology of Inland Empire writing that was a bit more urban. While I read every word, the type size here is not reader-friend ...more | |
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| This was a pleasant surprise, from a '30s-'40s SF writer whom I'd never read (aside from whatever co-writes appeared in The Best of Henry Kuttner). Every story is good and most are great. Leagues more compelling and human than most Golden Age SF. One ...more | |
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| Rather than a chronological history, this presents a range of stories about Inland Empire places, events and people from the 19th and 20th centuries, sometimes colorful, sometimes poignant or shameful. Among the best: recollections of people who trav ...more | |
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| I had planned to mostly skim this book but ended up reading it nearly word for word. Repetitive as any book of interviews with one subject will be, untrustworthy when Lou pledges at various points in the 1970s that now he's finally serious, exasperat ...more | |
