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#weekendreads

Definitely enjoying the cooler temperatures today.

📕I will finish the Matt Helm today. I picked it up at a FLL along with the James Bond books last week.

📘Handling Sin is my last #Roll100 for September and a bit of a struggle.

📗Loving my revisit to Brideshead for #HashtagBrigade and am reading far, far ahead of planned as a result.

Leftcoastzen 🥰love Brideshead 5d

Ruthiella @Leftcoastzen It‘s a true classic.👌 5d

RamsFan1963 I remember the Matt Helm movies with Dean Martin. He's played like an American James Bond, Martin wasn't much of an actor, but they could still be enjoyed for their campiness. 4d

Ruthiella @RamsFan1963 I used to love Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis movies as a kid. 😅 Apparently the Matt Helm movies were quite different from the books. But for sure I can see a tie to Fleming‘s Bond, who is also quite different from his film counterpart. (edited) 4d

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Chittavrtti

The Time Trap of Ming XIII | Alex Raymond

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Leftcoastzen

Fright (Hard Case Crime #34) | Cornell Woolrich

Hey Littens ! Please send finding energy! I‘ve lost a library book in my house! 😱😕📚👻

willaful Oh no! 1mo

charl08 🪄🪄🪄 1mo

LeahBergen Eek!! 1mo

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AmyG Oh no! 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 1mo

Dilara Oh dear! Let's hope it turns up soon🔍 1mo

KadaGul Don‘t worry, they always come back ⬅️ 🤣🤣 1mo

Bookwomble Have you looked behind the thing on the second wotsit? 😉 1mo

Leftcoastzen @Bookwomble going right now ! 😂 1mo

Ruthiella May the library gods shine a light! 🙏 1mo

Susanita Could it be in your car? 1mo

Leftcoastzen @Susanita good thought but never in the summer in Phx, Az . Found it in a stack it shouldn‘t have been with 😁115 today (edited) 1mo

AnnCrystal @Leftcoastzen glad you found the book 👏🏼🥳👌🏼📚💝. 1mo

Reggie I know you found it but I instantly thought-one of the cats took it to hide. Lololol 1mo

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stretchkev

Gold Rush | Miri Yu

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A brutal, unflinching dive into the psyche of a teenage boy unraveling amid the violence and neglect of Yokohama‘s slum. Stark and relentless, it‘s a haunting portrait of innocence lost and a society in decay, and pretty well written too.

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TieDyeDude

Tarzan of the Apes | EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

so-so

I had bought the second book at a used book store, but I'll be donating after having finished book one...

It wasn't necessarily bad, but I think the character in the cultural zeitgeist has outgrown the original story. You probably know all you want to know about Tarzan without reading this and spoiling your mental image. Overly long, pretty racist, way too many mentions of sinew, and a depressing ending took away from the overall enjoyment.

TheBookHippie OY. 3mo

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MariaW

Again the Ringer (Esprios Classics) | Edgar Wallace

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You have to like the writing style of Edgar Wallace which is very simple without any gloss-overs. I especially like his crime novels because tgey are that dry. This one follows episodically the life of master criminal Arthur Milton who purges the crimes of others by doing the work of Scotland Yard.

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LiseWorks

The Accused | Harold R. Daniels

April 21st #DynasticDs Dilemma This is a great tv series @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 5mo

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Leftcoastzen

The Hard-boiled Detective: Stories from Black Mask Magazine, 1920-1951 | Herbert Ruhm

#DynamicDs #Detective #OldSchool The tagged book is a collection of stories , The Maltese Falcon brought us Sam Spade , The Big Sleep , Phillip Marlowe .
Humphrey Bogart played both of those roles , & as you can see from the cover , Robert Mitchum played Marlowe in a remake . Good stuff !

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Excellent stuff 👏🏻 6mo

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snapsnarlgrowl

Tarzan the Untamed | EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

Skipping Jungle Tales for now since it‘s prequel short stories.

Just got to get through this one to get to my Tarzan the Terrible reread!

Bookwomble Jungle Tales has some good stories about Tarzan's youth with the mangani, but is incredibly racist even by ERB's standards. 6mo

snapsnarlgrowl Yeah, when I first found the books as a kid I got The Beasts of Tarzan and Tarzan the Terrible at a yard sale. I read Terrible first and loved it, then read Beasts and hated when he was interacting with other people. In retrospect, I didn‘t have the context or vocabulary to handle the racism. Now I‘m a bit scared of rereading Terrible because I fear the lemur-people are just more racism but with prehensile tails. 6mo

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snapsnarlgrowl

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar | EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

Tarzan and Jane are in their early(?) forties in this book. Jane is perfectly willing to shoot at invaders, but now she‘s escaped one kidnapper and has been kidnapped by an ape.

Tarzan thinks she smells vaguely familiar but apparently his amnesia comes with ape ADHD and he keeps getting distracted. You can tell it was originally published as a serial from the chaotic plot and constant cliffhangers, but this one definitely hits the absurd.

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