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Recent content by Kaplan

  1. Kaplan

    What are you reading?

    Robert E Howard: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, 1932-36. "Conan simply grew up in my mind a few years ago when I was stopping in a little border town on the lower Rio Grande. I did not create him by any conscious process. He simply stalked full grown out of oblivion and set me at work...
  2. Kaplan

    Site Topics - Part II

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  3. Kaplan

    What are you reading?

    Interesting. I've seen it mentioned a couple of times by now - by my two favourite booktubers and by Adam Roberts in his The History of Science Fiction 2nd Edition, which I recently finished. Folio has a handsome edition.
  4. Kaplan

    What are you reading?

    Robert E Howard: Kull, Exile of Atlantis, 1929-30. "Kull might be the king of Valusia and the Pict might be an emissary to her courts, but there in the throne hall of kings, two tribesmen glowered at each other, fierce and wary, while ghosts of wild wars and world-ancient feuds whispered to...
  5. Kaplan

    What TV Series Are You Streaming Lately?

    Both of these will probably be minority opinions: I liked Shogun a lot all the way through (not binging, one episode at a time). And I liked Cosmo Jarvis too, especially his diction - very Richard Burton like, which I think was perfect for a period piece. As for Ripley, I re-watched The...
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    Site Topics - Part II

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  7. Kaplan

    What are you reading?

    Richard Stark: The Hunter, 1962. "If I know you, you want him for something he won't like." "I'm going to kill him," Parker said. She smiled, nodding. "There," she said. "That's something he won't like." As Richard Stark Donald E Westlake wrote more than 20 Parker novels, this being the first...
  8. Kaplan

    What are you reading?

    Atmospheric WWII espionage novels sounds nice (sometime in the late 70s, early 80s I read all the Alistair MacLean my library had to offer).
  9. Kaplan

    What are you reading?

    I haven't, but I'll take a look at them. I just ordered a book by James M. Cain, and I expect to read another crime novel tomorrow.
  10. Kaplan

    What are you reading?

    Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep, 1939. "I went to bed full of whisky and frustration and dreamed about a man in a bloody Chinese coat who chased a naked girl with long jade earrings while I ran after them and tried to take a photograph with an empty camera." Taking inspiration from Hammett...
  11. Kaplan

    What are you reading?

    Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon, 1930. "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does." A return to the pulps. Hammett, formerly of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, was the 'dean of the hard-boiled school...
  12. Kaplan

    What are you reading?

    Susanna Clarke: Piranesi, 2020. "And you. Who are you? Who is it I am writing for? Are you a traveler who has cheated Tides and crossed Broken Floors and Derelict Stairs to reach these Halls? Or are You perhaps someone who inhabits my own Halls long after I am dead?" Winner of the Women's...
  13. Kaplan

    The Watch Appreciation Thread - Part two (Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Jaeger LeCoultre,

    After 14 years I still feel this way about mine.
  14. Kaplan

    Site Topics - Part II

    Same here. What can we click to avoid this?

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