28. Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities (397 p.)
29. Serling, Robert J. The President's Plane is Missing (287 p.)
30. West, Morris L. The Shoes of the Fisherman (288 p.)
31. Thomas, Craig. Firefox (294 p.)
June total: 1266 pages
YTD total: 9058 pages
• I'd never read A Tale of Two Cities before; I hadn't realized that both the first phrase ("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...", followed by 38 more words before we get to the end of the sentence) and the last sentence ("It is a far, far better thing I do...") both come from the same story. Otherwise, whenever there were English characters in a scene, I could easily follow what was going on. Whever there were only French characters, I always got so muddled that I plan on tracking down the Cliffs Notes for this just to find out what was really going on.
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• Firefox is a good, solid, military thriller, and the Clint Eastwood movie was mostly remarkably true to the book, all things considered. 'Nuff said.
Feudalism: Serf & Turf