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title: Reading List - Almost Interesting
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# Title: Almost Interesting
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## Author: David Spade
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**Started Reading**: 2017-12-18
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-01-08
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[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24805706-almost-interesting)
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I've always liked David Spade when I saw him on SNL and in movies. But I kinda forgot about him after his popularity waned. This was by no means a best-seller, but I think he knew that with the title of the book.
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I enjoyed this book a lot. His narrative style (“He writes like he talks!”) was a little unnerving early on, but the stories about his rise to fame at Saturday Night Live and the behind the scenes peeks at the show were really good.
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Especially good if you remember the incidents he refers to (and I do) like the Chris Farley/Patrick Swayze Chippendale's sketch and pretty much the best parts of Tommy Boy.
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A fun, easy read that left me hoping to see more of him and wishing him the best in the future.
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[[Reading List Index]]
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title: Reading List - Armada
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# Title: Armada
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## Author: [[Ernest Cline]]
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**Started Reading**: 2017-02-20
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-02-21
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I love [[Reading List - Ready Player One]]. I'm hoping this is as good.
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End Note: Amidst bad reviews, I liked this enough to finish it in about 24 hours. Wow.
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title: Reading List - Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill
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# Title: Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill
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## Author: Bryan Smith
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**Started Reading**: 2020-11-22
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**Finished Reading**: 2020-11-22
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28113652-christmas-eve-on-haunted-hill)
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This was...
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- short (just over 100 pages)
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- holiday-themed (obviously. It took place all on Christmas Eve)
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- bad. Well, to be fair it was more like a Tales from the Crypt episode. For such a short story it skipped a lot of background and took some liberties with characters and backstory. Hey I read the whole thing, so it wasn't that bad.
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Luke is the lone survivor of a Christmas Eve massacre committed by his Santa-suited father 10 years ago. Ten years later, Luke is back in town, in a Santa suit, with plans to commit suicide after getting wasted in the local bar. When he runs into an old friend (divine providence?) things take a different turn and he decides to destroy his old house, the scene of the original tragedy. But a bunch of kids have beat them to the house and are about to come face-to-face with an evil that visits the house once a year to bring something far more sinister than presents.
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title: Reading List - Dead Clown Barbecue
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# Title: Dead Clown Barbecue
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## Author: Jeff Strand
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**Started Reading**: 2020-08-22
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**Finished Reading**: 2020-11-01
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16482018-dead-clown-barbecue)
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This is book full of short stories that remind me a lot of [J Plummer](https://www.joeplummer.com/)'s Notebook. They're short. They're funny (most of the time). They're gory. They're politically-incorrect.
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That being said, they're not **amazing**, but that fact is offset nicely by the fact that they are short. I can usually read an entire story while the girls are brushing their teeth at night before bed.
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I was planning on writing up a sentence or two about each but there are 29 stories. Nope.
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Note: This got sort of painful by the end. Some of these stories were just silly. I get the writing style and appreciate the in-your-face, pragmatic narrative style, but I found myself reading a story every few day more out the sense of duty, wanting to finish the book, rather than wondering what was going to come next or if the next story was going to be good.
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But I did read the whole thing.
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title: Reading List - Secret Circles
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# Title: Secret Circles
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## Author: [[F Paul Wilson]]
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**Started Reading**: 2022-05-15
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**Finished Reading**: 2022-05-24
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6835887-secret-circles)
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From GoodReads:
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> When his five-year-old neighbor goes missing, Jack can’t help feeling responsible. He should have taken Cody home when he found him riding his bicycle near the Pine Barrens. And then a lost man wanders out of the woods after being chased all night by...something. Jack knows, better than anyone, that the Barrens are dangerous—a true wilderness filled with people, creatures, and objects lost from sight and memory. Like the ancient, fifteen-foot-tall stone pyramid he, Weezy, and Eddie discover. Jack thinks it might have been a cage of some sort, but for what kind of animal, he can’t say. Eddie jokes that it could have been used for the Jersey Devil. Jack doesn't believe in that old folk tale, but something is roaming the Pines. Could it have Cody? And what about the strange circus that set up outside town? Could they be involved? So many possibilities, so little time...
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This was as good as the first one. From what I remember about the short "Repairman Jack" stories I've read, this seems like a fine introduction to the man that became Repairman Jack.
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F. Paul Wilson has mentioned there are (or will be) 15 Repairman Jack novels. I don't know if he's including these or not, but at this point, I'd like to read these in order and there's one more in the "Teen Repairman Jack" series that I'll have to track down before I get into the novels. I don't know how far I'll get, but hell, I've read two books in under a month and that's pretty good.
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title: Reading List - Secret Histories
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# Title: Secret Histories
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## Author: [[F Paul Wilson]]
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**Started Reading**: 2022-05-13
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**Finished Reading**: 2022-05-15
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2407121.Secret_Histories)
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From GoodReads:
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> THE FIRST OF A TRILOGY OF REPAIRMAN JACK PREQUELS Read for the first time Jack's formative years. You'll meet his mother and father, big sister Kate and his bully of a brother Tom. While aimed for young adults, F. Paul Wilson doesn't write down and the book is as enjoyable for adults as it is for teens. And, as you can see from the above description there's plenty of foreshadowing of events that were to overtake Jack as an adult
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I've run across a couple Repairman Jack stories in a few of my anthology books and enjoyed them. I decided to really try to use Libby since I work for her at OverDrive and found this. It's technically a young-adult title, but it was a fun and short read. F. Paul Wilson has written more than a dozen Repairman Jack books. I'm not sure if I'll read them all, but I have already started the next book in the prequels - [[Reading List - Secret Circles]].
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title: Reading List - Secret Vengeance
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# Reading List - Secret Vengeance
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## Author: [[F Paul Wilson]]
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**Started Reading**: 2022-05-24
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**Finished Reading**: 2022-05-30
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2407121.Secret_Histories)
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> Everyone loves senior Carson Toliver, the captain and quarterback of the football team, heartthrob of South Burlington County Regional High—especially the girls. Even Jack's best friend Weezy has a crush on him. And unlike most of the popular kids at school, he's not stuck up. Jack even sees him defending a piney kid who is being bullied in the hall. Which is why Jack is so surprised when Weezy tells him that Carson took her on a date and attacked her.
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## My Take
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This was a pretty good introduction to the character I've come to know as Repairman Jack in the short stories I've read. There was a bit more sci-fi/fantasy in this trilogy than I would have expected, but they were enjoyable nonetheless. I am planning on reading at least "The Tomb" (book 1 in the [Repairman Jack Series](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=repairman+jack&qid=C0ZsSoFoua)), since I've enjoyed everything I've read so far.
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I decided to start reading more and to start using Libby to do so, when I stumbled upon this prequel trilogy to the Repairman Jack stories I've read in some of my anthology books. I read [[Reading List - Secret Histories]] in a few days. I read [[Reading List - Secret Circles]] in a little over a week and decided to finish off the trilogy when I found that the library does not have this title and may not ever get it.
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> Dan Lasco 3 minutes ago
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> That's a metered access (MA) title, and the library has run out of licenses.
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> Some libraries allow MA titles without licenses to remain in the collection and accumulate holds, so they can gauge interest.
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Have I mentioned how cool it is to work at the place that supports the app and knows all the answers?
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I guess I'll have to resort to my old ways to find this one.
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UPDATE: about an hour later, Meghan from Public Library Development contacted me and asked me about the book. She then introduced me to OverDrive's Digital Library (not the Corporate library I already knew about) and offered to upload the trilogy to that service. I set up an account using my work credentials and within a couple hours I was able to checkout the book in Libby! Again, it's good to work in a place that manages the thing you like.
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