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I used to love the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child books

Like Relic, and the Pendergast series etc. I feel like they got pretty schlocky, but it's been quite a while, and I don't really remember. Are any of their other stuff worth a read?

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Trapped in the generation gap

Trapped in the generation gap

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2023/06/trapped-generation-gap-social-media

Jean Twenge’s new study suggests that the young are the losers in a society transformed by technology.

Trapped in the generation gap

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The Third Law of Magic: A Short Story by Ben Okri

The Third Law of Magic

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/ben-okri-short-story-third-law-magic/672783/

A short story

The Third Law of Magic

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Books

Wish I'd made a more worthy first post here, but pictures under 1MB do work (around 800k for this one, but failed at 1.2MB before resizing.

So anyway, what's everyone favorite book? Current read?

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