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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 12, 2019 22:30:38 GMT -5
Natchez Shooting Supply catalog.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2019 3:03:05 GMT -5
"The Gathering Storm". Book twelve of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. This one was completed by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan's passing. Have not grown tired of the series. I am rationing the last few books.
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Post by jeffd on Jun 16, 2019 23:31:28 GMT -5
I just finished Batman "The New 52" Volume 1. I purchased volume 1 and volume 3 at my local comics shop, and guess what, they are struggling to find volume 2 to order it for me. I may have to go to Amazon, but I would prefer to support the bricks and mortar comic shop directly.
Its a good story, respectful of all the Batman traditions and tropes, while also presenting some new and very cool stuff. These things are magical in a way. How to be entertaining enough and exciting enough to make a new generation of Batman fans, and at the same time, keep the old fans going. Its got to be a creative straight jacket.
I know I am behind a bit and have quite a lot of Batman to catch up on.
A couple or three pipes of Billy Budd Blonde, at least for the first reading. I will come back to this in the future I am sure.
Oh, and for comics and graphic novel fans - I bought a single volume of three Will Eisner novels. Those that know, know. And those that don't, google it, because you really should know.
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Post by scrooge on Jun 17, 2019 6:00:34 GMT -5
Nothing! Well this forum.
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Post by toshtego on Jun 25, 2019 20:51:10 GMT -5
Up to volume 6 of the Matthew Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom, Lamentation This is the hunchback Tudor barrister and detective series. Excellent account of Tudor England, great plot twists and turns. Wonderful series if one enjoys English history and a good mystery novel.
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Post by toshtego on Jun 25, 2019 20:53:15 GMT -5
"The Gathering Storm". Book twelve of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. This one was completed by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan's passing. Have not grown tired of the series. I am rationing the last few books. Wasn't The Gathering Storm also a title from Winston Churchill's WWII history? Anyway, I will check out this series. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2019 21:14:48 GMT -5
Handbook of Modern Rocketry by G. Harry Stein
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 28, 2019 23:02:27 GMT -5
Handbook of Modern Rocketry by G. Harry Stein All you need to know is that 14 pounds of zinc and sulpher in a tube under the oak tree will bring the firemen and the police. (so I have heard, in 1967 people still had a sense of humor!) 😲😉😁🤠 |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jun 29, 2019 6:48:50 GMT -5
"And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie. Impulse buy at the supermarket.
King has mentioned her in his work a couple times. She's got a lot of books, so I figured it wasn't too much of a gamble wasting a day on one.
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Post by jeffd on Jul 1, 2019 0:43:17 GMT -5
I am reading some novels by Roddy Doyle. You may be aware of a movie based on one of his novels, The Commitments.
I am reading the Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, three novels in one volume called "The Barrytown Trilogy".
I am loving this stuff. Makes me laugh and cry, sometimes simultaneously as some of the comedy comes out of the sadness, and some of the sadness comes out of what is funny. Doyle is my latest favorite contemporary Irish author, the one before being William Trevor. (Who, interestingly enough) has the same effect on me.)
For some reason this stuff goes well with an old comfortable pipe and a tobacco you love because it delivers on your expectations.
Its great when you are not sure if you are reading in order to do something while you smoke, or smoking in order to do something while you read. Either way, its great.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 1, 2019 14:06:18 GMT -5
What is it about Ireland that gives birth to so many excellent writers? Actually, I could hazard a guess. Shite Weather+Hardship+Great Whiskey = Great Writing
I wouldn't be surprised if it were a fact that Ireland produces more great literary minds per capita than any other country.
"For some reason this stuff goes well with an old comfortable pipe and a tobacco you love. Maybe because it delivers on your expectations." -JeffD
You sold me. On my way to eBay now. haha
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 1, 2019 14:37:28 GMT -5
Sweet! Barrytown Trilogy is only $4 shipped.
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Post by jeffd on Jul 2, 2019 10:37:25 GMT -5
Sweet! Barrytown Trilogy is only $4 shipped. You may just love it. My training is in engineering, not literature, so i don't know as a matter of fact. But I would tend to agree that there is something special about Irish literature and Irish authors. One St. Patrick's day the local used book store (almost as rare as a local tobacco shop), had a display of Irish authors. I bought a book by someone I had never heard of, and so began an adventure that still is not over. William Trevor. Wow. I have only read his short stories, so I don't really know of his novels. But he has written so many stories that I will never run out. So, there is another author to check out. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 2, 2019 14:03:15 GMT -5
Sweet! Barrytown Trilogy is only $4 shipped. You may just love it. My training is in engineering, not literature, so i don't know as a matter of fact. But I would tend to agree that there is something special about Irish literature and Irish authors. One St. Patrick's day the local used book store (almost as rare as a local tobacco shop), had a display of Irish authors. I bought a book by someone I had never heard of, and so began an adventure that still is not over. William Trevor. Wow. I have only read his short stories, so I don't really know of his novels. But he has written so many stories that I will never run out. So, there is another author to check out. I miss my old neighborhood. Excellent little shop there on the main drag. Old books have a way of lending an air of mystery and magic to a place. I used to walk to there and back every Saturday. Also a genuine old school barber shop on the way too. Then I'd take my new book and hair cut to the corner pub for a few. Now I miss Bloomfield. Haha Engineering can be a fascinating field. In Many ways, writers are just engineers of thought. Looking forward to the book. Thank you for sharing. -Justin |
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Post by jeffd on Jul 2, 2019 14:08:24 GMT -5
Engineers of thought. Hmmmmm. I like that.
Certainly the reverse is true, I am a writer of numbers!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2019 22:05:50 GMT -5
Rockets Magazine Vol 1, issues 1-4
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 15, 2019 19:08:59 GMT -5
jeffdStarted on Berrytown trilogy today. Even though it was 90 and humid on the deck(enough so that my sweaty hand ripped a page) I almost read the entire first novella in a sitting. I indeed laughed out loud more than once. Haha The part where they were giving Natalie a hard time about kissing Joey 'The Lips' comes to mind. Excellent read so far. Thanks -Justin
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2019 23:51:10 GMT -5
Rockets Magazine, up to Vol 4 now
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Post by username on Jul 16, 2019 19:08:33 GMT -5
The anarch by Dan abbnet. The latest gaunts ghosts book it's a series set in the Warhammer 40k universe based on a imperial guard regiment
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 19:09:43 GMT -5
Rockets magazine up to Vol 5
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Post by trailboss on Jul 17, 2019 0:35:49 GMT -5
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Post by Stearmandriver on Jul 17, 2019 7:43:43 GMT -5
Revisiting Kerouac's "Dharma Bums", something I try to do every few years. Pretty sure that book influenced a lot about my life, including living in the northwest and smoking a pipe.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jul 17, 2019 8:01:54 GMT -5
 Rereading the 4 books that Lonesome Dove is part of by Larry McMurty.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 17, 2019 8:04:13 GMT -5
A post started by fadingdaylight that has abandoned a thread he started. Hahaha |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 17, 2019 8:47:43 GMT -5
A post started by fadingdaylight that has abandoned a thread he started. Didn't he die? |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 17, 2019 8:54:38 GMT -5
I have been reading the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Excellent series except that the third and last book is 8 years overdue. 💩😒.
There is a book 2.5 that is about a character that is mentally ill from her point of view. It's really very interesting. Her particular insanity is that she sees every inanimate object as having feelings and personality, and one unhappy broken gear can ruin the feeling of the room. It is interesting because it is understandable by those of us who feel bad for neglecting a favorite pipe for too long.
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Post by instymp on Jul 17, 2019 16:56:39 GMT -5
Andrew Watts, the war planners series
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Post by pepesdad1 on Jul 17, 2019 17:22:12 GMT -5
Proverbs...all of it.
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Post by toshtego on Sept 28, 2019 12:42:54 GMT -5
I started the collected Western Short Stories of Elmore Leonard. You may recall "3:10 to Yuma" was made into two excellent movies. These were published originally in some of the pulp magazine of the early 1950s. I am in the Arizona/Cavalry/Apache phase. He is surely one of the best writers of the 20th century, well, one of the most entertaining. I like his writing better than Zane Grey and others.
Anyone else remember these stories?
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 28, 2019 14:24:54 GMT -5
I have a couple in my library, but I am still working through the complete Zane Grey.
I did just finish the latest James D. Best Steve Dancy novel. "Crossing the Animas". Set in Durango and Silverton at the beginning of the S&D Railroad. I think it's the 5th or 6th in the series.
My only problem with Zane Grey is all the ejaculations. Really dates the writing.
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Rereading the 4 books that Lonesome Dove is part of by Larry McMurty.