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LogDog75

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29. Vitals by Greg Bear
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 04:49 PM
Dec 2024
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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I recently read Earth by David Brin WestMichRad Dec 2024 #5
The books by David Brin that I don't read include: Kiln People, Otherness and Earth. Tetrachloride Dec 2024 #8
Dean Koontz blue sky at night Dec 2024 #2
Wow! I had no idea hermetic Dec 2024 #7
Some libraries offer out-of-state library cards LearnedHand Dec 2024 #21
new book editing type book intention, just added by me sooo great! recovering_democrat Dec 2024 #3
Noble House by James Clavell JoetheShow Dec 2024 #4
A review hermetic Dec 2024 #12
I reread that earlier this year. It's one of my favorite Clavells. rsdsharp Dec 2024 #24
Orbital Mz Pip Dec 2024 #6
Ooooh yeah hermetic Dec 2024 #13
So far so good Mz Pip Dec 2024 #20
Thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. I'm still meandering thru the Texas Hill Country japple Dec 2024 #9
I want to read that one, too hermetic Dec 2024 #14
Carl Hiaason Beatlelvr Dec 2024 #10
I have always enjoyed hermetic Dec 2024 #15
Jonathan & Jesse Kellerman/A Measure of Darkness cbabe Dec 2024 #11
Sounds good hermetic Dec 2024 #17
The Future by Naomi Alderman Easterncedar Dec 2024 #16
Brand new hermetic Dec 2024 #18
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami DetlefK Dec 2024 #19
I really liked that book! LearnedHand Dec 2024 #22
Just finished The Price of Bread and Shoes by Lonormi Manuel mentalsolstice Dec 2024 #23
I just finished Conclave by Robert Harris. rsdsharp Dec 2024 #25
I read Conclave and enjoyed it so much I am now reading Imperium Polly Hennessey Dec 2024 #26
I've read most of Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome Series. rsdsharp Dec 2024 #27
I'm on an inter-library loan list for "Conclave" Number9Dream Dec 2024 #31
Moby Dick. (nt) returnee Dec 2024 #28
Vitals by Greg Bear LogDog75 Dec 2024 #29
Those all sound really good hermetic Dec 2024 #30
About 1/3 way through "1356" by Bernard Cornwell... very good so far Number9Dream Dec 2024 #32
Hurry Sundown by K.B. Gilden mike_c Dec 2024 #33
That was made into a great movie with Jane Fonda and Michael Caine yellowdogintexas Dec 2024 #34
Almost finished with Murder in Williamstown - a Phryne Fisher mystery yellowdogintexas Dec 2024 #35
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