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    From a cat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 17 22:22:37 2023
    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.

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  • From maus@21:1/5 to a cat on Sun Jun 18 06:50:48 2023
    On 2023-06-18, a cat <a_cat@example.com> wrote:
    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.

    I agree
    He seemed to be a one wonder. AFAIread, there seems to be a dispute
    about his unpublished work.

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  • From a cat@21:1/5 to maus on Sun Jun 18 10:17:45 2023
    On 6/18/23 12:50 AM, maus wrote:
    On 2023-06-18, a cat <a_cat@example.com> wrote:
    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.

    I agree
    He seemed to be a one wonder. AFAIread, there seems to be a dispute
    about his unpublished work.

    He has unpublished work? I know there's the three in the millenium
    series, and then books not written by Larsson published after his death.

    But he wrote more that we haven't seen yet?

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to a cat on Sun Jun 18 09:32:56 2023
    On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 22:22:37 -0600, a cat <a_cat@example.com> wrote:

    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.

    I'm currently doing the Jeffrey Archer Clinton Chronicles.

    Naturally I'm going in semi-random order so having read 3 of them
    already I'm now reading the first in the series....

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  • From cr0c0d1le@21:1/5 to a cat on Sun Jun 18 13:19:30 2023
    a cat <a_cat@example.com> writes:

    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.
    I am currently reading Snow Crash.

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  • From a cat@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Sun Jun 18 12:19:03 2023
    On 6/18/23 10:32 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 22:22:37 -0600, a cat <a_cat@example.com> wrote:

    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.

    I'm currently doing the Jeffrey Archer Clinton Chronicles.

    Naturally I'm going in semi-random order so having read 3 of them
    already I'm now reading the first in the series....

    It's been awhile since I could get into political fiction. I feel like I
    get enough of that in real life o.0

    Is it much more than that? What do you like about it?

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  • From maus@21:1/5 to a cat on Sun Jun 18 18:58:10 2023
    On 2023-06-18, a cat <a_cat@example.com> wrote:
    On 6/18/23 12:50 AM, maus wrote:
    On 2023-06-18, a cat <a_cat@example.com> wrote:
    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.

    I agree
    He seemed to be a one wonder. AFAIread, there seems to be a dispute
    about his unpublished work.

    He has unpublished work? I know there's the three in the millenium
    series, and then books not written by Larsson published after his death.

    But he wrote more that we haven't seen yet?

    As far as I know, not being swedish speaking, or having contacts in the country, I remember as story of a dispute

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  • From a cat@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 18 12:17:02 2023
    On 6/18/23 11:19 AM, cr0c0d1le wrote:
    a cat <a_cat@example.com> writes:

    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.
    I am currently reading Snow Crash.

    What a great book. I think it was the writing style, but I enjoyed that
    book, but not Neuromancer. I actually liked the world of Neuromancer
    more, but for some reason it had trouble holding my attention.

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  • From maus@21:1/5 to nospam@nospam.org on Sun Jun 18 18:59:55 2023
    On 2023-06-18, cr0c0d1le <nospam@nospam.org> wrote:
    a cat <a_cat@example.com> writes:

    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.
    I am currently reading Snow Crash.

    A great story, a great author. renently he seems to have gone a bit
    weird

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to a cat on Sun Jun 18 16:39:34 2023
    On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 12:19:03 -0600, a cat <a_cat@example.com> wrote:

    On 6/18/23 10:32 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 22:22:37 -0600, a cat <a_cat@example.com> wrote:

    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.

    I'm currently doing the Jeffrey Archer Clinton Chronicles.

    Naturally I'm going in semi-random order so having read 3 of them
    already I'm now reading the first in the series....

    It's been awhile since I could get into political fiction. I feel like I
    get enough of that in real life o.0

    Is it much more than that? What do you like about it?

    You're probably thinking of his First Amongst Equals which is a 20
    year novel of 4 rivals vying for the British Prime Ministership one by
    one gradually being eliminated.

    The Clifton Chronicles are more 'multi-generational family saga' than
    anything else - the two leading characters are two boys who grow up to
    be a noted novelist and an industrialist with political ambitions.
    Covering pretty much from WW1 to the Margaret Thatcher era.

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  • From cr0c0d1le@21:1/5 to a cat on Sun Jun 18 21:25:59 2023
    a cat <a_cat@example.com> writes:

    On 6/18/23 11:19 AM, cr0c0d1le wrote:
    a cat <a_cat@example.com> writes:

    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a
    few years late, but it's a great read.
    I am currently reading Snow Crash.

    What a great book. I think it was the writing style, but I enjoyed
    that book, but not Neuromancer. I actually liked the world of
    Neuromancer more, but for some reason it had trouble holding my
    attention.
    I tried reading Neuromancer a couple of times, but I just couldn't 'get'
    it.

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  • From maus@21:1/5 to nospam@nospam.org on Mon Jun 19 06:13:00 2023
    On 2023-06-19, cr0c0d1le <nospam@nospam.org> wrote:
    a cat <a_cat@example.com> writes:

    On 6/18/23 11:19 AM, cr0c0d1le wrote:
    a cat <a_cat@example.com> writes:

    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a >>>> few years late, but it's a great read.
    I am currently reading Snow Crash.

    What a great book. I think it was the writing style, but I enjoyed
    that book, but not Neuromancer. I actually liked the world of
    Neuromancer more, but for some reason it had trouble holding my
    attention.
    I tried reading Neuromancer a couple of times, but I just couldn't 'get'
    it.

    I love the book, keep going back to rereadit

    maus

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 19 21:24:55 2023
    On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:25:59 -0400, cr0c0d1le <nospam@nospam.org>
    wrote:

    a cat <a_cat@example.com> writes:

    On 6/18/23 11:19 AM, cr0c0d1le wrote:
    a cat <a_cat@example.com> writes:

    I'm currently reading through "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I'm a >>>> few years late, but it's a great read.
    I am currently reading Snow Crash.

    What a great book. I think it was the writing style, but I enjoyed
    that book, but not Neuromancer. I actually liked the world of
    Neuromancer more, but for some reason it had trouble holding my
    attention.
    I tried reading Neuromancer a couple of times, but I just couldn't 'get'
    it.

    Neuromancer was a great book and in my opinion the computer game based
    on it was even better (which was probably the last game I played
    before retiring my Apple II - must have been 1990-91 since my youngest
    was not yet born)

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  • From cr0c0d1le@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Wed Jun 21 21:25:02 2023
    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> writes:

    On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:25:59 -0400, cr0c0d1le <nospam@nospam.org>
    wrote:
    Neuromancer was a great book and in my opinion the computer game based
    on it was even better (which was probably the last game I played
    before retiring my Apple II - must have been 1990-91 since my youngest
    was not yet born)
    I didn't know there was a game based on the book. One of my hobbies is retro-gaming. I will check it out! Thanks

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 21 22:29:04 2023
    On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:25:02 -0400, cr0c0d1le <nospam@nospam.org>
    wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> writes:

    On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:25:59 -0400, cr0c0d1le <nospam@nospam.org>
    wrote:
    Neuromancer was a great book and in my opinion the computer game based
    on it was even better (which was probably the last game I played
    before retiring my Apple II - must have been 1990-91 since my youngest
    was not yet born)
    I didn't know there was a game based on the book. One of my hobbies is >retro-gaming. I will check it out! Thanks

    I'm pretty sure the game (as was typical 1989-90) was released in an
    Apple II and an IBM-PC game. I >believe< the latter was MS-DOS but
    could have been Windows - I didn't switch from the // to Windows till
    a couple of years after that and I am fairly sure on the date since I
    played it in a house I moved out of in early 1991. (We've had 3
    houses, 1 in Toronto, 2 in Vancouver and each of our children was born
    in a different house)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer_(video_game)

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