The only Donald I read is Donald Goines.
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Updated. Finished last pair of books. Now reading:
Like Jedi, my books are always a pair: one fiction, one non-fiction (and then two or three of each that I started but havenāt picked up againā¦)
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Burglarās guide to the city sounds interesting, from a red team perspective. How far into it are you?
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A few chapters. So far, it is mostly about how burglars see the city differently. I just read a chapter on Los Angeles PD helicopter surveillance and how they see the city interspersed with an infamous LA bank robbery by an uncaught tunneling crew.
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I hadnāt heard of the title, but it struck my interest from the physical security angle. Iāll look up some reviews.
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I just borrowed The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking, inspired by a recent podcast I listened to about D.B. Cooper.
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Eastern religion > western religion, thatās for sure. Way more sensible.
Which reminds me, the Nexus series (I mentioned I was reading it upstream) was really quite religious, in the eastern way. I liked it a fair bit, because it was well written, action packed, and had a decent approximation of what was technically possible in the future. Plowed through all 3 books on vacation and Iād definitely recommend them to sci-fi fans.
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Xeelee Endurance, collection of shorts, continuation of the Xeelee Sequence, real hard, real good sf.
I Am a Strange Loop
Ploughing through it one more time before I embark on the GEB masterclass.
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comics comics comics is what I just finished.
Volume 4 of Terry And The Pirates. Terry, Pat and even The Dragon Lady get properly into fighting the Japanese occupation. Two fisted action and because Caniff wanted to show it wasnāt just simple action fare the death of a loved character. It caused quite a stir when it happened.
The dailies run of Wonder Woman which was quite amusing and hooo boy the bondage/domination subtext isnāt so subtext.
And volume 10 of the collected Judge Dredd which is what it is but quite fun and now well into stuff I never got to read via reprints on this side of the pond.
Just started The League of Seven a YA Steampunk/Lovecraftian Monster book that came reccomended by one of MrsTobinLās pen pals. The action kicks in early and the world premise is pretty cool.
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Thatās so GGM. You just got to go with the absudity and not try too hard, or youāll make yourself crazy.
I remember reading Love in the Time of Cholera and I kept thinking thereās got to be something about the chess set and the unfinished match. Nope.
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I love that book! Remember when hijacking was kind of romantic? I loaned out my copy to a friend, which reminds me that I need to get it back.
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Iām finishing up the Harry Hole series by Jo NesbĆø. Two more after I finish the one Iām reading. Just in time for The Snowman movie that theyāre currently filming (or in post production). Who knew Norway was so violent?
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Iām reading Ghost Gifts by Laura Spinella because the big orange site that starts with A said I could. And free too! Well, thatās kind of under selling it.
On paper it sounds exactly like my kind of thing. Paranormal romance. Only I may have read āromanceā in the description when it wasnāt there. 
No, wait. I re-read the description. āPassion ignitesā canāt not be romance, right?
Well, at any rate, itās a slow start but I have too many weighty books Iām stalled on reading so itās a nice change.
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Currently reading Piketty. About halfway through. I alternate between enjoying it and being bored/overwhelmed, but thereās some good stuff in there and Iāll keep going for that, kind of like the Silmarillion 
Also partway through Neil Gaimanās Trigger Warning.
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Currently reading N0S 4A2 by Joe Hill. The author of āHornsā (excellent movie, highly recommend) and the son of Stephen King. And I really really like it. Creepy and spooky without being too cheesy. Heās a chip off the old block for sure, but has found his own voice very well.
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I am amused to see that one of the main characters of the book still has an active arrest warrant.
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Will they ever get an answer? I assume sheās died, but it is amazing that she is/was able to go underground for so long.
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Thatās been my strategy so far: just let my eyes roll across the words and donāt worry too much about their implications until something rises above the background level of (un)interesting.
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