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LogDog75

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29. Vitals by Greg Bear
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 03:49 PM
Dec 8
Vitals is a book about two identical brothers, separately, who are trying to figure out how to make humans immortal. Shortly after Hal Cousins gets a call from his brother Ron, he learns Ron has been killed. Soon, other scientists around the country also studying longevity have been killed. Hal Cousins becomes targeted by those who've used similar research from 70 years ago to keep the secret to themselves.

I finished reading two books, No Time for Goodby and No Safe House by Linwood Barclay. No Time for Goodby is about a woman, Cynthia, when she was 14 years old was caught by her father beyond her curfew drinking with her older boyfriend. The next morning, when she wakes up her mother, father, and older brother are missing. Twenty-five years later she starts receiving messages about where they are. She is now married with an 8 year old daughter and the possibility of finding her family is causing her to act erratically.

No Safe House is a continuation of No Time for Goodbybut seven years later when Cynthia and her family get caught up in a scheme by a local mobster (her boyfriend from when she was 14 years old) who is using other people's houses to hide money, guns, and stolen property in people's attics.

Both novel are excellent reads and, unlike many novels, there are no loose ends or unexplained actions/behaviors.

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The Uplift Universe series by David Brin. Currently, The Uplift War and Infinity's Shore Tetrachloride Dec 8 #1
I recently read Earth by David Brin WestMichRad Dec 8 #5
The books by David Brin that I don't read include: Kiln People, Otherness and Earth. Tetrachloride Dec 8 #8
Dean Koontz blue sky at night Dec 8 #2
Wow! I had no idea hermetic Dec 8 #7
Some libraries offer out-of-state library cards LearnedHand Dec 8 #21
new book editing type book intention, just added by me sooo great! recovering_democrat Dec 8 #3
Noble House by James Clavell JoetheShow Dec 8 #4
A review hermetic Dec 8 #12
I reread that earlier this year. It's one of my favorite Clavells. rsdsharp Dec 8 #24
Orbital Mz Pip Dec 8 #6
Ooooh yeah hermetic Dec 8 #13
So far so good Mz Pip Dec 8 #20
Thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. I'm still meandering thru the Texas Hill Country japple Dec 8 #9
I want to read that one, too hermetic Dec 8 #14
Carl Hiaason Beatlelvr Dec 8 #10
I have always enjoyed hermetic Dec 8 #15
Jonathan & Jesse Kellerman/A Measure of Darkness cbabe Dec 8 #11
Sounds good hermetic Dec 8 #17
The Future by Naomi Alderman Easterncedar Dec 8 #16
Brand new hermetic Dec 8 #18
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami DetlefK Dec 8 #19
I really liked that book! LearnedHand Dec 8 #22
Just finished The Price of Bread and Shoes by Lonormi Manuel mentalsolstice Dec 8 #23
I just finished Conclave by Robert Harris. rsdsharp Dec 8 #25
I read Conclave and enjoyed it so much I am now reading Imperium Polly Hennessey Dec 8 #26
I've read most of Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome Series. rsdsharp Dec 8 #27
I'm on an inter-library loan list for "Conclave" Number9Dream Dec 8 #31
Moby Dick. (nt) returnee Dec 8 #28
Vitals by Greg Bear LogDog75 Dec 8 #29
Those all sound really good hermetic Dec 8 #30
About 1/3 way through "1356" by Bernard Cornwell... very good so far Number9Dream Dec 8 #32
Hurry Sundown by K.B. Gilden mike_c Dec 8 #33
That was made into a great movie with Jane Fonda and Michael Caine yellowdogintexas Dec 8 #34
Almost finished with Murder in Williamstown - a Phryne Fisher mystery yellowdogintexas Dec 8 #35
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