Member: Artymedon

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About my libraryGeographical library: West, North, South & East
Cloak & Dagger Swashbuckling novels
Noir crime detective novels
Sequential Art - Comic books, cinema.
Pecking order & Normative Ethics
Automobiles
Military History

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
Robertson Davies

GroupsBBC Radio 3 Listeners, Book Care and Repair, Comics, Hardboiled / Noir Crime Fiction, History: On learning from and writing history, Medieval Europe, Reading Globally, The Inn of Cloak-and-Dagger

Favorite authorsAmédée Achard, Aristide Bruant, Vera Caspary, C. F. Méneval, Alexandre Dumas, Osvaldo Farres, Paul Féval, George MacDonald Fraser, Arnould Galopin, C. L. R. James, Jacques Martin, Bertram Mitford, Pierre Mac Orlan, Pellerin, Maurice Tillieux, Michel Zévaco, Stefan Zweig (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Other favoritesSouth Carolina Book Festival 2014, Heroes Convention Charlotte, NC - 30th Anniversary, Angouleme, France, 2014 comic festival

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

LocationNorth Carolina ; South Carolina, USA

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Member sinceMay 27, 2009

Currently readingRed Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin by Catherine Merridale
A Giant Cow-Tipping by Savages: The Boom, Bust, and Boom Culture of M&A by John Weir Close
Haiti Noir 2: The Classics by Edwidge Danticat
Theodor Herzl: A New Reading by Georges Yitzhak Weisz
Yenko: The Man, the Machines, the Legend by Bob McClurg