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Number9Dream

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8. "Impact" by Douglas Preston & "The Paying Guests" by Sarah Waters

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 09:41 AM

Feb 2016

Thanks for the thread, Hermetic.

I gave up and punted on "The Paying Guests" by Sarah Waters (recommended to me). Stuck with it despite a slow beginning. After enjoying a semi-graphic lesbian sex scene in a scullery, I got bored again and took it back to the library.

"Impact" by Douglas Preston turned out to be a quick read. Plenty of action in this book. It involves a cosmic particle which has impacted and passed clean through the Earth. Due to circumstances, an ex-CIA agent teams up with a young Afro-American woman. It was very enjoyable.

I'll have to hit the library after work today or tomorrow for another book.

Also, Thanks for the tip about "Thief of Time" movie. It seems I will be able to get that as an inter-library loan.

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