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24. Thanks for the thread, hermetic. Will put the Michael Connelly book on my list to
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 08:20 AM
Aug 2018

read.

I've just started Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek an original relation to nature, drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down. At the end of a grueling journey, the men reach a place of paradisal richness, where they abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter. So caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time, the men are overtaken by winter and snowed in. In the spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
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Just finished "Primordia' by Greig Beck. Trying to decide what is next. dameatball Aug 2018 #1
Ah, decisions decisions... hermetic Aug 2018 #5
yes, I already ordered it on Amazon. The first book was better than I expected. dameatball Aug 2018 #15
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I agree about your Connelly book Ohiogal Aug 2018 #4
Nice, thanks! hermetic Aug 2018 #7
Um, C.J. is a "him" Ohiogal Aug 2018 #8
Ooops hermetic Aug 2018 #9
Just finished Blackout, murielm99 Aug 2018 #6
I've GOT to read this one hermetic Aug 2018 #10
You need to read Blackout first, murielm99 Aug 2018 #16
One of all my all time favorites... Ohiya Aug 2018 #18
I've tried Connie Willis matt819 Aug 2018 #20
I'm reading old Agatha Christies.... dawg day Aug 2018 #11
I like your logic hermetic Aug 2018 #13
Me too! Basic LA Aug 2018 #26
I was disappointed with Origins dhol82 Aug 2018 #12
Thanks hermetic Aug 2018 #14
You could try The Lost Symbol or Inferno dhol82 Aug 2018 #17
Let's see matt819 Aug 2018 #19
David Rosenfelt hermetic Aug 2018 #21
I'm deep into the Gaslight Mysteries PennyK Aug 2018 #22
Lots of good stuff there hermetic Aug 2018 #23
Thanks for the thread, hermetic. Will put the Michael Connelly book on my list to japple Aug 2018 #24
I always get 3 books from the library each week, Tracer Aug 2018 #25
The Long Silence by Gerard O'Donovan PoorMonger Aug 2018 #27
Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura PoorMonger Aug 2018 #28
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