Ok, so I never got around to reviewing this, but it's a very enjoyable screwball comedy from 1941, and directed by Howard Hawks. Gary Cooper is good, Barbara Stanwyck is great, and the premise is hilarious. Eight professors are writing an encyclopedia. After a talk with the milkman, Bertram Potts...
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No, Koontz' Twilight is about aliens masquerading as people or something like that. To be honest, I think I gave it up as worthless at the halfway point. (I thought about reading the other Twilight, then saw it was over 500 pages, and said, Forget it.)
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I'm no help. Koontz has never impressed me as an author: Twilight remains in my memory as one of the worst books I've ever read and nothing I've ever picked up by him has done much for me. I liked the first half of Demon Seed, which he rewrote, I gather, as an expansion of the sorry second half. ...
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Hmm. Etidorhpa is available online, but maybe not The Golem. Here are Wikipedia links. The actual book links don't tell you much except the plot, which I'm assuming you don't want spelled out in detail. So these are author links. Meyrink - Look at the "Fame" section Lloyd - Look at the "Writing...
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Or Etidorhpa by John Uri Lloyd?
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How about The Golem by Gustav Meyrink?
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Just saw a National Geographic Presents episode about this (Madness in the White City). Erik Larson is one of the people interviewed. Which is good, because this show was just like the book (only not nearly as good) in that it skipped back and forth between the White City and Holmes. They didn't ...
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Ok, I've started this twice now and put it down both times within a few pages. The opening scenes, with the first effects of the Pulse, just bore me. It does get better, doesn't it?
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