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Jim is Currently Reading

Jim Reddy is currently reading

Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction

by James Naremore

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Nov 21, 2025 02:48PM

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Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir

by Eddie Muller

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Nov 13, 2025 06:04PM

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Conan: City of the Dead

by John C. Hocking

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“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”
― Oscar Wilde

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Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" — 1116 members — last activity Nov 26, 2025 09:36AM
Readers, authors, illustrators, and editors aggregate here to discuss Sword & Sorcery books and related media (movies, comics, blogposts, etc.). ...more

Robert E. Howard Readers — 401 members — last activity Oct 08, 2025 08:35PM
Justly remembered for his thrilling stories about Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard wrote about many other characters and in genres other than Swo ...more

Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction — 6118 members — last activity Nov 23, 2025 05:47AM
The focus of this group is historical fiction set in Ancient and Medieval eras(with some post Medieval), in any geographical location. Preference is g ...more

Multiverse--Michael Moorcock — 147 members — last activity Apr 06, 2025 11:10PM
This is a group to discuss the works of the British Author Michael Moorcock and topics related to his writings and interests. Currently, much of the c ...more

Haruki Murakami fans — 5839 members — last activity Nov 26, 2025 01:16AM
Discuss all things Haruki Murakami: novels, short stories, non-fiction, books about HM, translation projects, related music/film, interviews, symbolis ...more

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