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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 6, 2019 21:08:45 GMT -5
About to start the second book in "The Brotherhood of The Wheel" series. About long haul truckers that fight monsters on the side.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 21:13:04 GMT -5
Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button by Nick Hazelwood. The history of a Tierra del Fuego native boy who was kidnapped by British seamen in 1830, and how much it screwed him up.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Mar 6, 2019 21:30:45 GMT -5
Lee Child..."Without Fail"...a Reacher novel...I have all of his novels.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 7, 2019 2:19:52 GMT -5
Upon recommendation by a fellow pipe club member...just got a Sunday delivery from Amazon.  That is a real classic of the early 1960s. Hoffer was a real workingman intellectual. An Oakland Longshoreman as I recall. A good read. |
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Post by Stearmandriver on Mar 7, 2019 6:24:20 GMT -5
"The Fellowship of the Ring", because I realized that while I've watched the movies probably a dozen times, I haven't read the series all the way through, start to finish, since the movies came out. It seemed time to do that again. I'm already loving the feel of them and all the parts I barely remember because the movie changed or omitted them.
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Post by just ol ed on Mar 7, 2019 8:21:07 GMT -5
after home from routine fasting blood test, finish the papers while the Ed is fed. Plenty unread magazines to get thru later
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by jeffd on Mar 10, 2019 22:29:11 GMT -5
"The Fellowship of the Ring", because I realized that while I've watched the movies probably a dozen times, I haven't read the series all the way through, start to finish, since the movies came out. It seemed time to do that again. I'm already loving the feel of them and all the parts I barely remember because the movie changed or omitted them. I remember every time I put the book away for the night, back in the box set, I wondered how a whole world full of noise and action could fit in such a small cardboard box. I did not care for the movies as the mind experience reading the books was so awesome. |
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Post by Wolfman on Mar 14, 2019 19:10:15 GMT -5
I’m currently reading: What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer. Prior to that, I read a biography about Tip O’Neill by John Farrell and prior to that was: Franklin Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek. .
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Post by puritana on Mar 14, 2019 20:42:55 GMT -5
Just started reading "Robin" by Dave Itzkoff
A biography of Robin Williams.
So far, it's good.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2019 9:38:58 GMT -5
I have taken a 8 month break from books, but my buddy just gave me a Bill Nye book called, "Everything all at Once"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2019 9:41:52 GMT -5
"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy."
That describes my friend who gave me the Bill Nye book
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 17, 2019 9:59:06 GMT -5
 White Doves in the Morning, James Lee Burke. Didn’t work for me, Civil war era in S Louisiana, no strong character, didn’t resonate with me, regret my 18$.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 17, 2019 11:21:35 GMT -5
White Doves in the Morning, James Lee Burke. Didn’t work for me, Civil war era in S Louisiana, no strong character, didn’t resonate with me, regret my 18$. I do not know about this one but James Lee is very good writer. I enjoyed many of his Robicheaux novels. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 17, 2019 11:38:26 GMT -5
I agree Tosh, love his writing, fished with his Brother at Cypremort Point, this one didn’t IMHO have a strong central character, I’m the only dissenter on the Amazon review, but then that’s how the cow eats the corn.
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Post by jeffd on Mar 17, 2019 17:34:50 GMT -5
Lawrence Block: A Time to Scatter Stones. Because its Lawrence Block, and because its Matthew Scudder, and because I can.
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Post by balticbriar on Mar 27, 2019 11:09:44 GMT -5
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 27, 2019 11:37:46 GMT -5
Rereading The Son by Phillip Meyer, boy is kidnapped by Comanches, grows to be a Texas Icon, love how he describes how they get all the products of life in the Buffalo, like the hog everything but the squeal They made a TV sequel with Pierce Bronson as the lead, good choice , didn’t think he would be good in a western till I saw Seraphim Falls, he was badass in there.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 28, 2019 11:10:24 GMT -5
Rereading The Son by Phillip Meyer, boy is kidnapped by Comanches, grows to be a Texas Icon, love how he describes how they get all the products of life in the Buffalo, like the hog everything but the squeal They made a TV sequel with Pierce Bronson as the lead, good choice , didn’t think he would be good in a western till I saw Seraphim Falls, he was badass in there. Don't know about the book but second your opinion on Brosnan and "Seraphim Falls". Good movie and he played one tough character believably. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 28, 2019 14:39:47 GMT -5
"Day of Atonement"
About a young man who returns to Portugal
to take revenge on the Portuguese Inquisitor who destroyed his parents and the English traders who betrayed them. I can see this playing out on cable news in the next few months. What goes around comes around.
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Post by jeffd on Mar 28, 2019 16:22:34 GMT -5
I bought a six volume collection of short stories from the late 30s early 40s. Six hardcover green volumes. Some great stuff in there.
But what sold me was how the pages smell like old pipe smoke. OMG. Had to buy them, have to read them, need to fill a pipe.
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Post by jeffd on Apr 1, 2019 10:30:19 GMT -5
So here is a new practice I have taken up. In the package with many of the pipes I have purchased there is a card, about an inch or less by four inches, on how to load and smoke a pipe, or perhaps the great quality and renown history of the pipe maker in four languages.
I normally throw these in a box, for no reason except it seems a shame to toss them. Well now, they are perfect as book marks. Perfect.
Right now I got a bunch of books going, all stacked up next to my overstuffed chair, and each one has a pipe card in it.
This is how religious ritual gets started I think.
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Post by insignia100 on Apr 3, 2019 19:49:14 GMT -5
Currently attempting to get through Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert. The 4th and 5th books of his original series are definitely weaker, in my mind, than the original trilogy. Still, must persevere so I can complete this saga and move on to the next. (Maybe a rereading of The Hobbit?)
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Post by jeffd on Apr 18, 2019 14:28:38 GMT -5
Reading BUtterfield 8, a novel by John O'Hara. The main reason O'Hara did not become a famous A list writer is that he had the bad luck of writing while Hemingway walked the earth.
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Post by Dramatwist on Apr 18, 2019 14:48:26 GMT -5
Reading BUtterfield 8, a novel by John O'Hara. The main reason O'Hara did not become a famous A list writer is that he had the bad luck of writing while Hemingway walked the earth. ...Hemingway liked him though... considered him a friend... |
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Post by Dramatwist on Apr 18, 2019 14:50:46 GMT -5
Rereading "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. I have an autographed first edition that I am afraid to handle, so I have a reproduction that I reread every year.
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Post by jeffd on Apr 18, 2019 14:57:34 GMT -5
Reading BUtterfield 8, a novel by John O'Hara. The main reason O'Hara did not become a famous A list writer is that he had the bad luck of writing while Hemingway walked the earth. ...Hemingway liked him though... considered him a friend... Yes, but from what I have read it was one of those "he could afford to" situations. But O'Hara kind of walked around like that. Sort of the eternal Regis Philbin wanting Johnny Carson to like him. But the man could write a novel. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 18, 2019 15:13:53 GMT -5
Took Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman to hospital yesterday, it went so fast didn’t have time to open book, it’s my next read.
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 19, 2019 11:41:52 GMT -5
Raiders of the Spanish Peak by Zane Grey. About to interrupt it for the road trip so the wife and I can listen to Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson.
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Post by Dramatwist on Apr 19, 2019 13:52:43 GMT -5
...just finished up volumes I and II of the Mueller Report. Not going to discuss politics (per the rules of this forum) but it's a historical document that is worth your time, no matter which side of the aisle you're on...
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Post by Scott W on Apr 19, 2019 20:42:59 GMT -5
9 lies about work by Marcus Buckingham. The company I work for purchased Marcus’ company last year. He’s an impressive fellow
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White Doves in the Morning, James Lee Burke. Didn’t work for me, Civil war era in S Louisiana, no strong character, didn’t resonate with me, regret my 18$.
