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164: The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - 4.40
165: Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - 10/07/09-10/08/09 - 4.26 ... for the next group read is:
Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G Coney
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston
The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
As always, ... I'll nominate Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Magical realism. ... book has two co-equal authors, not one and a coauthor). This is the latest in the Pendergast series. I'm going to submit Cabinet of Curiosities for the next SF group read. I know there is a lot of stuff to read out there, but am amazed that I can't get any action here in snobs for Douglas Pres ... ... authors I read regularly.
If you have not read these gentlemen you are doing yourself a disservice. I would recommend The Cabinet of Curiosities as a starter, then go back and pick up Relic and Reliquary. Very entertaining and always a page turner. ... on... some health things, and focusing on a new job probably.
Anyway... new this month
recieved in the mail today Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston
ordered from Amazon over the weekend and should have by Friday: Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart (looks very good), Parasite Rex ... ... (David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, Our Mutual Friend) or general fiction (The Sea Wolf, Middlemarch, The Cabinet of Curiosities)? ... and Stephen J. Dubner
38. The Third Angel, Alice Hoffman *audiobook
39. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
40. The Cabinet of Curiosities, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (re-read)
41. Brimstone, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (re-read)
42. The Dance of Deat ... ... of it)
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Blow Me Down by Katie MacAlister
The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (my boss liked it, so this one should be interesting)
Courting Midnight by Emma Holly ... ... from one to the other.
Most of these are tales of terror and horror. Just the stuff you guys should like. The best is Cabinet of Curiosities if you just want to check them out.
BTW, these two dudes know how to write. ... Perez Riverte:
The Flanders Panel
Club Dumas
The Fencing Master
Preston Child:
The Relic
Reliquary
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Still Life with Crows
... through for the sake of completion, but still, if you arrive at that point, you may feel compelled to read it.
Cabinet of Curiosities is them at the absolute top of their game. It helps to read them in the proper sequence, but is certainly not necessary. You just might miss some of ... ... novels co-authored by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Their first three, especially the third of the Pendergast novels, Cabinet of Curiosities are great entertainment reads, fast, interesting, always with a twist, and usually quite gruesome with a touch of magic. I've read most of their ... 6. The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Totally enjoyable creepy murder mystery with a supernatural twist. This apparently is the third in the series, so I have more of this author-combo to add to my TBR pile. Oh happy day. :) The Relic
Reliquary
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Still Life with Crows
by Preston Child ... Preston Child novels, especially those with that wonderful FBI agent, Aloysius Pendergast.
The Relic
Reliquary
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Still Life with Crows
and several others including a trilogy with Aloysius and his multi massively serial killer brother, Diogenes.
If ... ... to the audio book and loved it.
In terms of thrillers I've really enjoyed the Pendergast series (Relic, Reliquary, Cabinet of Curiosities, etc.) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Sort of detective mysteries with a creepy supernatural twist.
And a comic nonfiction I'd ... ... addicted to buying books.
So far I've read:
1. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
2. Bank by David Bledin
3. Cabinet of Curiosities
I'm working on The Terror and Big Boned.
... anything, but I love their books. (Oddly, I've tried reading their solo novels and hated them...) My favourite was The Cabinet of Curiosities, but Relic and Reliquary were pretty good too. ... good one from the Camulod Chronicles. I'm having to read them out of sequence, though, so that kind of messes me up.
14. The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Spooooooooky! I like it but I'm not sure I want to read more of these.
15. You're Lucky You're Funny ... I can only think of four:
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints) by ... The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Three for the Chair by Rex Stout
The Arab Table: Recipes and Culinary Traditions by May Bsisu
The Ottoman Kitchen: Modern Recipes from Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, Lebanon, and Syria by Sarah Woodward
Th ... Tortilla Flat By Steinbeck
The Sea Wolf by Jack London
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
The History of the English Speaking Peoples by Winston S. Churchill (This has four volumes)
Jurassic Park ... A special favorite is The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. ... Needful Things, Gorky Park, Pride and Prejudice, Mystic River, The Vampire Lestat, I, Claudius, Phantom and The Cabinet of Curiosities. ... Head wasn't bad, although it left some things VERY unresolved. It was fun seeing how Nora and Smithback met, since I read Cabinet of Curiosities (where they were moving in together) a few months back. I enjoy Preston & Child's fiction, as mind candy. I'm trying to find a copy of Douglas Pre ... ... you might want to read the Pendergast series from Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. In order they go
Relic
Reliquary
Cabinet of Curiosities
Still Life With Crows
Brimstone
Dance of Death
and
The Book of the Dead
In it, Pendergast (the protagonist FBI agent) uses a similar ... ... hits the shelves.
The series starts with Relic and the most recent is The Book of the Dead. Probably the best one is Cabinet of Curiosities though. You could read it as a standalone novel, but then you'd be sucked in, too. They're written like overblown 40's radio or movie serials and ...
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