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Post by puritana on Apr 19, 2019 20:50:17 GMT -5
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 19, 2019 21:41:29 GMT -5
Well, Somewhere in Time lasted about an hour before the wife couldn't stand it anymore. Matheson's screen writing was great, but his novels are very sleep inducing. Reader is Scott Brick, one of the best,so it wasn't him
We're back on Zane Grey and she's loving it.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 20, 2019 20:37:56 GMT -5
Reading a trilogy of murder mysteries by David Morrell set in London during the early and mid 1850s. They involve historical figures of the time including Thomas De Quincy, essayist and author of the book, Confessions of an English Opium Eater. In this mystery trilogy, De Quincy and his fictional daughter are advisers to a police inspector and his detective assistant. Morrell incorporates much Victorian history into his stories including the many assassination attempts on Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. Victoria and Albert also appear as characters. You may remember Morrell's earlier book, First Blood and the Rambo character. He does a fine job of depicting mid 19th century London.
Murder as a Fine Art, Inspector of the Dead, Ruler of the Night.
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Post by kirk13 on Apr 21, 2019 7:39:15 GMT -5
Well, Somewhere in Time lasted about an hour before the wife couldn't stand it anymore. Matheson's screen writing was great, but his novels are very sleep inducing. Reader is Scott Brick, one of the best,so it wasn't him We're back on Zane Grey and she's loving it. I'm disappointed to hear that. It's one of my girlfriend's favourite movies,and I'd been meaning to get around to reading the book |
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 21, 2019 8:20:38 GMT -5
Well, Somewhere in Time lasted about an hour before the wife couldn't stand it anymore. Matheson's screen writing was great, but his novels are very sleep inducing. Reader is Scott Brick, one of the best,so it wasn't him We're back on Zane Grey and she's loving it. I'm disappointed to hear that. It's one of my girlfriend's favourite movies,and I'd been meaning to get around to reading the book Same for the wife. I liked the movie too, but the book is a snoozer. It might be better to read it on paper where you can kind of skim the slow parts. Assuming that there's anything but slow parts. On Amazon they have a long excerpt from the beginning and you can see the style he used. It's like he planed it being a rough draft for a movie script all along. It's written as a man's diary, a man who has become unbalanced. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 21, 2019 8:33:54 GMT -5
 Going to start a book about a son whose father was an infantryman in WW11, they lived in the town that Tibet’s lived in and he always said that’s the man that won the war. Tibet’s was the pilot of the Ebola Gay. After his fathers death he went and got an interview with Tibet’s, this started a friendship. It’s something I want to really read, my Grandson took a picture with the Enola Gay navigatior at a gun show in Houston.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 21, 2019 9:42:45 GMT -5
Going to start a book about a son whose father was an infantryman in WW11, they lived in the town that Tibet’s lived in and he always said that’s the man that won the war. Tibet’s was the pilot of the Ebola Gay. After his fathers death he went and got an interview with Tibet’s, this started a friendship. It’s something I want to really read, my Grandson took a picture with the Enola Gay navigatior at a gun show in Houston. A movie was made about Lt. Colonel Paul Tibbett's, "Above and Beyond", 1952, with Robert Taylor as the Colonel. I saw it many years ago and it was worth watching. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Apr 21, 2019 11:31:57 GMT -5
Jeremiah in the Jerusalem Bible...carried on the prophesies of Isaiah...the lack of faith and the turning from the Word of Yahweh.
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 21, 2019 20:22:07 GMT -5
Finished the Zane Grey. Pretty good story but over 100 years old and very politically incorrect. His style was kind of awkward in this one. He used the word "ejaculated" for "exclaimed" more times than we could count. If we hadn't been driving we would have made a drinking game out of it.
Edit. I just checked the chronologically of his books and Raiders of the Spanish Peaks was a later book, 1938. Maybe by this time he was just "phoning it in".
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Post by toshtego on Apr 22, 2019 15:06:31 GMT -5
Finished the Zane Grey. Pretty good story but over 100 years old and very politically incorrect. His style was kind of awkward in this one. He used the word "ejaculated" for "exclaimed" more times than we could count. If we hadn't been driving we would have made a drinking game out of it. Edit. I just checked the chronologically of his books and Raiders of the Spanish Peaks was a later book, 1938. Maybe by this time he was just "phoning it in". There is a range of mountains north of here, in southern Colorado named "The Spanish Peaks". Near La Vita CO and Cuchara. Are those the peaks Grey refers to in his book? |
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 22, 2019 17:04:20 GMT -5
Finished the Zane Grey. Pretty good story but over 100 years old and very politically incorrect. His style was kind of awkward in this one. He used the word "ejaculated" for "exclaimed" more times than we could count. If we hadn't been driving we would have made a drinking game out of it. Edit. I just checked the chronologically of his books and Raiders of the Spanish Peaks was a later book, 1938. Maybe by this time he was just "phoning it in". There is a range of mountains north of here, in southern Colorado named "The Spanish Peaks". Near La Vita CO and Cuchara. Are those the peaks Grey refers to in his book? That's the area. Never know if his locations are real or not. He said that it was great cattle country. |
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Post by toshtego on Apr 22, 2019 17:45:59 GMT -5
There is a range of mountains north of here, in southern Colorado named "The Spanish Peaks". Near La Vita CO and Cuchara. Are those the peaks Grey refers to in his book? That's the area. Never know if his locations are real or not. He said that it was great cattle country. It was better cattle country in the 19th century before being over grazed and drought stressed. Still is active ranch country.  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 22, 2019 19:41:52 GMT -5
That's the area. Never know if his locations are real or not. He said that it was great cattle country. It was better cattle country in the 19th century before being over grazed and drought stressed. Still is active ranch country. I just looked at the area on Google and it looks like a scenic area, but the properties for sale in the area look like Big Bend, which was grassy prairie before it was over grazed. First cattle, then sheep. It's like a gravel parking lot now. The Spanish Peaks area looks like sand and rocks. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 10:48:05 GMT -5
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Book Eleven: "Knife of Dreams". Still enjoying the series.
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Post by jeffd on Apr 29, 2019 20:46:00 GMT -5
A bunch of great stuff just came in the mail. Woo hoo. Top of the list are a few books by mathematician Ian Stewart. Always a treat.
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 29, 2019 20:57:11 GMT -5
Reading "Hardwired", a third rate cyber punk novel. I guess when you start a genre with Dick and Gibson you will have great expectations, but this guy is average at best. I might be swayed because he is one of the rich New Mexicans who blame all of the states problems on Texas.
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Post by garydh2000 on Apr 29, 2019 20:58:20 GMT -5
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. A good read.
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Post by william on Apr 30, 2019 6:40:11 GMT -5
Been pecking at Rick Bragg's "My Southern Journey." It's a collection of very short, previously published vignettes about growing up in the South. It is filled with dusty red clay roads, kudzu, and stifling humidity. Reminds me of my own childhood in many ways.......
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Post by toshtego on May 23, 2019 17:18:16 GMT -5
I have been at C.J. Sansom's "Shardlake" series of novels. Set in London and up north during the reign of Henry VIII, Matthew Shardlake is a hunchbacked lawyers who is forever investigating murders. Just why he is a hunchback is some kind of inside joke. The author is English and was educated as a Historian before turning to the law as a Solicitor to earn a living. Anyway, marvelous detail of the Tudor era and interesting plot twists making for an excellent series of mysteries.
During this era, hunchbacks were distrusted as "unlucky" and often with evil intent. Our Matthew is an upright semi-agnostic during the time of reformation of the church. He is ably assisted by his clerk/sidekick, a former ruffian of Jewish decent and a Moorish physician turned Christian monk turned apothecary. All these outcasts form an able team dedicated to law, order, goodness and fair dealing... the English Way!
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Post by toshtego on May 23, 2019 17:19:31 GMT -5
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. A good read. Is that about Kim Philby? |
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Post by Baboo on May 23, 2019 18:00:15 GMT -5
Latest issue of The New Yorker monthly... Profiles - Hello Darkness...
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Post by garydh2000 on May 23, 2019 18:14:17 GMT -5
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. A good read. Is that about Kim Philby? I am not sure? |
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Post by toshtego on May 23, 2019 19:45:08 GMT -5
Is that about Kim Philby? I am not sure? Seems the book is based on the true story of Count Alexander Rostov and a long house arrest. |
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Post by addamsruspipe on May 23, 2019 20:02:02 GMT -5
Re-reading the March to the Stars series by David Weber and John Ringo. It's a really good high tech SciFi series. 🙂
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Post by Dramatwist on May 23, 2019 20:04:29 GMT -5
"Hank and Jim" by Scott Eyman.
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Post by garydh2000 on May 23, 2019 20:55:13 GMT -5
Seems the book is based on the true story of Count Alexander Rostov and a long house arrest. Yes he is confined to a hotel in Moscow. Very well written book. |
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Post by Dramatwist on May 23, 2019 20:57:29 GMT -5
Been pecking at Rick Bragg's "My Southern Journey." It's a collection of very short, previously published vignettes about growing up in the South. It is filled with dusty red clay roads, kudzu, and stifling humidity. Reminds me of my own childhood in many ways....... ...reminds me of my 10 years in Montgomery... |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 17:58:27 GMT -5
Yeti cooler publication, mostly fishing adventures.
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Post by Stearmandriver on May 25, 2019 3:14:41 GMT -5
Recently read "Longitude" by Sobel, and enjoyed it a lot. I've always liked pre-gps navigation; the dead reckoning, real chart-and-plotter stuff, so this book sent me down the rabbit hole of teaching myself celestial navigation. Picked up a plastic sextant and have cranked through books with names like "Celestial Navigation in a Teacup", "Celestial Navigation for the Clueless" etc. On a good night, with 3 stars and a bowl of water I can fix myself within a couple miles of my backyard. It's been a real source of fascination for me, and hilarity for my wife. Every time I come inside, she asks if I've found our house yet  . |
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Post by garydh2000 on May 25, 2019 9:48:12 GMT -5
Some fiction that I’ve recently read and really enjoyed:
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Winter Loon by Susan Bernhard
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Lines We Leave Behind by Eliza Graham
Currently reading:
My Lady Nicotine by J.M. Barrie
The Son by Phillip Meyer
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
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Going to start a book about a son whose father was an infantryman in WW11, they lived in the town that Tibet’s lived in and he always said that’s the man that won the war. Tibet’s was the pilot of the Ebola Gay. After his fathers death he went and got an interview with Tibet’s, this started a friendship. It’s something I want to really read, my Grandson took a picture with the Enola Gay navigatior at a gun show in Houston. 
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