What was the last book you read?
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Send For the Saint (The Saint #46)
After the last two volumes of original stories set in the thirties, this one returns to the practice of adapting a pair of TV episodes, but rewritten to place them in 1952,
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Chronicles of Avonlea & Anne of the Island (Anne #3) by L.M. Montgomery
Chronicles is not technically part of the series, being an anthology of stories about other denizens of her home town, but Anne is referenced here and there and does make the odd cameo.
Anne of the Island takes her through her college years.
Chronicles is not technically part of the series, being an anthology of stories about other denizens of her home town, but Anne is referenced here and there and does make the odd cameo.
Anne of the Island takes her through her college years.
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George Eliot by Mathilde Blind
Having now read all of George Eliot's fiction, I thought the time was right for this biography which is now regarded as a classic work in itself.
Now I suppose I'll have to find out what else Mathilde Blind wrote.
Having now read all of George Eliot's fiction, I thought the time was right for this biography which is now regarded as a classic work in itself.
Now I suppose I'll have to find out what else Mathilde Blind wrote.
I have finished Maximilian Schell's autobiography entitled "I fly over dark valleys (Ich fliege über dunkle Täler)". It was one of those books that had been lying around for a while until the late Maximilian Schell's image was damaged because his niece (Maria Schell's daughter) claimed to have been abused by Maximilian Schell as a teenager. Of course, not everyone believed her accusations, so Maximilian Schell's daughter said that she too had been abused by her father as a teenager, because it was apparently a habit in the family that teenage girls were deflowered by an older family member.
This shocking news has taken away my admiration for Maximilian Schell, still I've finally decided to read his autobiography. Of course, everything is interesting and I would still find him very sympathetic if I didn't know that he was a predator. Apparently there were really dark valleys in his family, because his maternal grandfather was a psychiatrist in Vienna during the time of Freund and Jung and married two of his patients, so respect for women was not common. I was shocked when Maximilian Schell dedicated a section of his autobiography to the Michael Jackson abuse scandal. He wrote that he had traveled through the USA with his adopted son on vacation and that he had booked two rooms, but that the son did not want to be alone at night and wanted to sleep in Schell's bed. An outsider could have thought that Maximilian Schell had abused his stepson and that poor Michael Jackson (who Maximilian Schell had only met briefly once at an awards ceremony) was simply misunderstood. It now seems to me as if Maximilian Schell wanted to take precautions in case abuse allegations were made against him one day and that was the only reason he mentioned his stepson in their shared bed.
By the way, I always read several books at the same time and one of them is by the in this thread popular Arthur Hailey: Overload. It is a nice read, but the way it looks at energy production is no longer up to date.
This shocking news has taken away my admiration for Maximilian Schell, still I've finally decided to read his autobiography. Of course, everything is interesting and I would still find him very sympathetic if I didn't know that he was a predator. Apparently there were really dark valleys in his family, because his maternal grandfather was a psychiatrist in Vienna during the time of Freund and Jung and married two of his patients, so respect for women was not common. I was shocked when Maximilian Schell dedicated a section of his autobiography to the Michael Jackson abuse scandal. He wrote that he had traveled through the USA with his adopted son on vacation and that he had booked two rooms, but that the son did not want to be alone at night and wanted to sleep in Schell's bed. An outsider could have thought that Maximilian Schell had abused his stepson and that poor Michael Jackson (who Maximilian Schell had only met briefly once at an awards ceremony) was simply misunderstood. It now seems to me as if Maximilian Schell wanted to take precautions in case abuse allegations were made against him one day and that was the only reason he mentioned his stepson in their shared bed.
By the way, I always read several books at the same time and one of them is by the in this thread popular Arthur Hailey: Overload. It is a nice read, but the way it looks at energy production is no longer up to date.
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How Much For Just the Planet? by John M. Ford
Another very unusual Star Trek novel from the same author as The Final Reflection.
This one takes the form of a musical comedy of errors, complete with full original song lyrics, much to the confusion of the Starfleet and Klingon personnel visiting the titular planet.
Another very unusual Star Trek novel from the same author as The Final Reflection.
This one takes the form of a musical comedy of errors, complete with full original song lyrics, much to the confusion of the Starfleet and Klingon personnel visiting the titular planet.
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The Saint in Trouble (The Saint #47)
Into the Ogilvy era now, with adaptations of two episodes of the seventies TV series Return of the Saint.
The stories remain remarkably topical, dealing with themes of the energy crisis and middle eastern terrorism.
Into the Ogilvy era now, with adaptations of two episodes of the seventies TV series Return of the Saint.
The stories remain remarkably topical, dealing with themes of the energy crisis and middle eastern terrorism.
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Just finished 'The Secret Seven Catch Jack The Ripper' - a great read. Dick and Julian overpowered the brute near Whitechapel tube station whilst Anne rang the rozzers. Timmy the dog was very excitable as well.
I'm just about to start 'The Famous Five Discover Acid'. It sounds pretty good. Some great psychedelic head banging.
I'm just about to start 'The Famous Five Discover Acid'. It sounds pretty good. Some great psychedelic head banging.
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The Saint and the Templar Treasure (The Saint #48)
It's taken forty-eight books for Simon Templar to show an interest in whether he has any connection to his historic namesakes.
Perhaps it's telling that Leslie Charteris never did it in any of the books he personally wrote. But it does seem to confirm that Templar is his real name; some have suggested that it's just a pseudonym.
It's taken forty-eight books for Simon Templar to show an interest in whether he has any connection to his historic namesakes.
Perhaps it's telling that Leslie Charteris never did it in any of the books he personally wrote. But it does seem to confirm that Templar is his real name; some have suggested that it's just a pseudonym.