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Post by mgtarheel on Sept 17, 2023 11:32:09 GMT -5
"Running Blind" by Lee Child
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Post by tree16 on Sept 21, 2023 14:58:41 GMT -5
Currently reading War of the Worlds and things are just starting to heat up, poor Ogilvy. The social commentary aspect is much more interesting this time around.
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Post by Zach on Sept 21, 2023 18:00:05 GMT -5
THE SEARCHER, Tana French. Retired Chicago cop moves to remote western Ireland and, against his will, gets involved in a local mystery that puts him at risk. Very well done. Except for the complete bolloxing she does to details about a Henry rifle. Why don’t writers do their homework, which is so easy to do? Fortunately she writes so well, and the story is so well-crafted that I could (almost) overlook the hindrance to the willing suspension of disbelief and appreciate the deeper tale. BLOOD MERIDIAN, Cormac McCarthy. A tale of hell and mayhem on the early western frontier. McCarthy’s prose is dense, incantatory, bardic. Sometimes almost too much. Rich and fragrant like dried blood and the evil just keeps coming. Finished both of them… I have been seeing a ton of folks reading McCarthy lately, since right before he passed away. This one is on my list eventually. After reading Blood Meridian, do you intend to read other McCarthy works, or have you already read other works? |
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Post by mgtarheel on Sept 23, 2023 10:07:23 GMT -5
"Echo Burning" by Lee Child
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Post by mgtarheel on Oct 2, 2023 19:37:34 GMT -5
"Without Fail" by Lee Child
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Post by don on Oct 3, 2023 18:22:10 GMT -5
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 9, 2023 19:22:35 GMT -5
Jim Harrison, THE ENGLISH MAJOR. Harrison is always good, but this is one of his weaker efforts. His protagonist is a bit of a doofus, but mostly likable. I’m betting that it didn’t him very long to write it. Even Harrison can’t hit a home run every time at bat. It’s not “bad” just kinda when all is said and done… a bit on the meh side.
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Post by urbino on Oct 9, 2023 19:48:09 GMT -5
Jim Harrison, THE ENGLISH MAJOR. Harrison is always good, but this is one of his weaker efforts. His protagonist is a bit of a doofus, but mostly likable. I’m betting that it didn’t him very long to write it. Even Harrison can’t hit a home run every time at bat. It’s not “bad” just kinda when all is said and done… a bit on the meh side. I've got one of his books around here somewhere. Can't remember which one. I never got around to reading it. |
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Post by toshtego on Oct 20, 2023 13:57:36 GMT -5
This I will look for this one. Thanks for the tip. Currently reading C.S. Forester's "Ship of the Line", another Hornblower saga. Alternating with the Rudolf Diesel biography. |
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Post by rastewart on Oct 20, 2023 17:56:01 GMT -5
What I'm reading these days has a back story. Bear with me while I pack and light up and give the fire a poke.
A couple of weeks ago I watched the documentary Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy, produced in 2015, about the life and works of the late poet, translator, antiwar activist, and pioneer of what was for a while a lively and controversial men's movement. That was an experience in itself, which I might write about in The Cineplex. But among the many people appearing in the film was James Lenfestey, a poet I had met, had a long talk with, and exchanged a few emails with over 20 years ago when our daughters were attending the same college. We've renewed our correspondence, and I'm now reading his memoir Seeking the Cave, about his pilgrimage to China to find the cave of the legendary T'ang Dynasty poet Han-shan, and have one of his collections of poems, Earth in Anger, up next.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 20, 2023 23:49:07 GMT -5
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges. He's a war correspondent writing about what he experienced. Very intense and moving. "War is a failure of diplomacy."
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Post by urbino on Oct 21, 2023 17:19:16 GMT -5
I’m going back through Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower. I really like her discussion of the anarchists.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 21, 2023 18:37:02 GMT -5
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges. He's a war correspondent writing about what he experienced. Very intense and moving. "War is a failure of diplomacy." I like what a former Prime Minister of Australia said about diplomacy. "Diplomacy is the art of getting the other guy to see things your way." |
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 21, 2023 19:08:05 GMT -5
War may be a failure of diplomacy, but it is also the fulfillment of human nature.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 23, 2023 23:54:42 GMT -5
War may be a failure of diplomacy, but it is also the fulfillment of human nature. Yep. I have never been in a serious fight or fired a gun in anger, but I seem to have an innate desire to die with a sword in my hand. 😕 |
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Post by exbenedict on Oct 24, 2023 16:34:43 GMT -5
An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865
R. Campbell
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Post by toshtego on Oct 24, 2023 17:04:45 GMT -5
War may be a failure of diplomacy, but it is also the fulfillment of human nature. Yep. I have never been in a serious fight or fired a gun in anger, but I seem to have an innate desire to die with a sword in my hand. 😕 Perhaps you were a Viking in a prior life? ODIN!!!!!! |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 24, 2023 23:31:08 GMT -5
Yep. I have never been in a serious fight or fired a gun in anger, but I seem to have an innate desire to die with a sword in my hand. 😕 Perhaps you were a Viking in a prior life? ODIN!!!!!! I used to think so, but I found out that my ancestors were Goths. While the Vikings were raiding coastal villages in England, the Goths were sacking Rome. |
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Post by mgtarheel on Oct 25, 2023 9:24:00 GMT -5
"Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain
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Post by jeffd on Oct 25, 2023 9:37:06 GMT -5
I’m going back through Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower. I really like her discussion of the anarchists. I love Barbara Tuchman. Especially "A Distant Mirror". I would love to read, now, what she would publish 20 years from now about what she would have written about what is happening in the world today, if she were alive to write it. (I spent a little time hammering that sentence into shape.  ) |
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Post by urbino on Oct 25, 2023 17:07:47 GMT -5
I’m going back through Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower. I really like her discussion of the anarchists. I love Barbara Tuchman. Especially "A Distant Mirror". I would love to read, now, what she would publish 20 years from now about what she would have written about what is happening in the world today, if she were alive to write it. (I spent a little time hammering that sentence into shape. ) I spent a little time unbending it. |
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Post by instymp on Oct 25, 2023 17:25:13 GMT -5
Yep. I have never been in a serious fight or fired a gun in anger, but I seem to have an innate desire to die with a sword in my hand. 😕 Perhaps you were a Viking in a prior life? ODIN!!!!!! One of my old favorite movies.
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Post by just ol ed on Oct 25, 2023 18:15:51 GMT -5
Was doing final read of CI catalogue, order ready, call in Thurs via phone. Can't do it via computer pushing buttons. Can't have somebody else do it & they would know the numbers on my credit card. Posible CI might just ask for the last 4 numbers of same but not gonna take that chance with anybody but me
Ed
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Post by jeffd on Oct 25, 2023 20:05:15 GMT -5
I spent a little time unbending it. Yea I can imagine. But really, we are so close up to the events of the day we do not and cannot have the perspective and analysis that historians will have years from now, looking back at us. That is something I forget when reading history. The folks experiencing it were more like you and me, just saying "wow" and "you gotta be kidding me" like we are. So narrowly focused in time and space as to be relatively ignorant. Despite being intimately involved they were ignorant of what they were heading into, who would win or lose, or what was happening elsewhere that mattered. Not to mention lack of mass communications and 24 hour news cycles. |
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Post by urbino on Oct 25, 2023 20:13:57 GMT -5
I spent a little time unbending it. Yea I can imagine. But really, we are so close up to the events of the day we do not and cannot have the perspective and analysis that historians will have years from now, looking back at us. That is something I forget when reading history. The folks experiencing it were more like you and me, just saying "wow" and "you gotta be kidding me" like we are. So narrowly focused in time and space as to be relatively ignorant. Despite being intimately involved they were ignorant of what they were heading into, who would win or lose, or what was happening elsewhere that mattered. Not to mention lack of mass communications and 24 hour news cycles. "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." |
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Post by john on Oct 30, 2023 22:07:08 GMT -5
This Don, looks like a good read. Having served aboard a destroyer in the ‘70’s I will be adding it to my list to get. Right now I am reading several books; How To Read a Book -Mortimer J. Alder. How To Preach Biblicaly - John McArthur Genesis, Holman Old Testament Commentary Indianapolis- Lynn Vincent & Vladic This is a moving account of heroic men in war. The How to read a Book came from a reference I read in another book I was reading the author was relating difficulty he had in college trying to learn all that he had to just to pass his classes. Now I thought that I could read as I have been for the past 68 years. Since I began ministry school I found this book to really make a difference. Who said an old dog can’t learn anew trick😁 |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 30, 2023 22:41:39 GMT -5
John McArthur is solid.
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Post by qmechanics on Nov 1, 2023 18:30:57 GMT -5
The curious and ever growing collection of realities, tales and dreams otherwise known as "What are you reading? 2023".
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Post by mgtarheel on Nov 2, 2023 13:23:50 GMT -5
"Confessions of a Yakuza" by Junichi Saga
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Post by jeffd on Nov 2, 2023 16:04:25 GMT -5
Re-reading a bunch of Bertrand Russell essays. Pipe worthy material!
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