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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 18, 2020 21:14:55 GMT -5
Finished the 4th book in the Thieftaker series by C.S. Quinn. Highly recommended.
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Post by lizardonarock on Oct 18, 2020 21:46:30 GMT -5
The Water Seekers by Remi Nadeau Remi is the great grandson of the Remi famous for the Borax twenty mule team and mule teams before the trains arrived his last foray was freight to Tombstone. This book deals with water for LA.
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Post by ironclad on Oct 19, 2020 16:55:35 GMT -5
Trophy Hunt by Box
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 19, 2020 19:34:24 GMT -5
He's a good writer. I have read about a half dozen of his books. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 20, 2020 19:59:05 GMT -5
 Toas Lightning, book about a horse race in 1880s from Galveston Texas to New England, 15 yr old boy takes his Dads place in race after his Dad has an accident that costs him his arm. Change of pace for me, reminds me of Hidalgo movie, enjoying it. I just finished this. A very good book and seemingly very accurate descriptions of the situations he finds himself in. I wish it had one more chapter though. |
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Post by mrlunting on Oct 21, 2020 16:33:05 GMT -5
The diary of Anne Frank.
Ok I had to put it down for a while. It just got to.. I don't know.. emotional.
To think of what she went through. The romance even. Only to be sent to the camp in the end.
(I just can't even imagine)
Suffice to say I am going to continue reading this book. I feel like I owe it to her.
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Post by username on Oct 24, 2020 21:11:26 GMT -5
Some role playing game books. Specifically vampire the dark ages. Not planning on running it but I was bored.
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Post by mrlunting on Oct 25, 2020 9:11:53 GMT -5
Mycelium Running- how mushrooms can save the world. Written by Paul Stamets.
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Post by sperrytops on Oct 26, 2020 13:19:01 GMT -5
I've given up on books. Youtube and audio books have made me lazy. I just lay back with a pipe and listen.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 26, 2020 17:39:52 GMT -5
Re-reading C.J. Sansom's "Shardlake" series, set in Tudor England in the days old HR VIII.
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Post by taiguy66 on Oct 26, 2020 17:56:12 GMT -5
“Pipe smoking in the 21 Century Guide,” by Richard Hacker just arrived. If it’s half as good as his Cigar book this should be an awesome read!
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Post by instymp on Oct 26, 2020 18:11:20 GMT -5
Only entertaining, nothing educational or thought provoking.
Done that.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 26, 2020 22:32:46 GMT -5
Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter. Very disturbing in the first chapters. It reminded me of several things I witnessed in Mississippi and Louisiana in the late 60s and early 70s. The novel was set in 1951, but things were just as bad (at least it seemed to me).
Anyway, it gets a little lighter later on. Too realistic in the first chapters though. If you are lucky enough to think it's exaggerated it might not bother you so much.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 31, 2020 20:18:04 GMT -5
I just read a great article that really lays it all out on covid, from the point of view of a bright doctor with real facts. Does he have the advantage of hindsight? Surely he does, as should all of the people now that are in positions to re-calibrate and inform us should we see anther pandemic of this nature, the introduction listing his credentials makes it clear to me that he understands the issue from many angles. A good read and worth 10 minutes of your time. imprimis.hillsdale.edu/sensible-compassionate-anti-covid-strategy/ |
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Post by Darin on Oct 31, 2020 20:40:57 GMT -5
I just read a great article that really lays it all out on covid, from the point of view of a bright doctor with real facts. Does he have the advantage of hindsight? Surely he does, as should all of the people now that are in positions to re-calibrate and inform us should we see anther pandemic of this nature, the introduction listing his credentials makes it clear to me that he understands the issue from many angles. A good read and worth 10 minutes of your time. imprimis.hillsdale.edu/sensible-compassionate-anti-covid-strategy/He is reiterating much of what I've been saying for months but was chastised for … thanks for posting that. |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 31, 2020 20:46:35 GMT -5
Well there is a lot to be said for common sense informed by the facts. It's not like you work in the healthcare field and see the numbers every day, Darin!  |
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Post by Darin on Oct 31, 2020 20:50:47 GMT -5
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Post by ironclad on Nov 7, 2020 16:42:39 GMT -5
I am rereading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 7, 2020 18:27:16 GMT -5
I am rereading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. That was fun and very well blended. If you read the original, then picked up the take-off, you would be scratching your head! 😁 |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 7, 2020 18:29:30 GMT -5
Now reading "In the Hurricane's Eye" by Nathan Philbrick, about ancient history, the American Revolution.
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Post by Gandalf on Nov 7, 2020 18:33:13 GMT -5
Now reading "In the Hurricane's Eye" by Nathan Philbrick, about ancient history, the American Revolution. Not so ancient, but maybe forgotten or disregarded. |
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Post by Gandalf on Nov 7, 2020 18:40:23 GMT -5
Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter. Very disturbing in the first chapters. It reminded me of several things I witnessed in Mississippi and Louisiana in the late 60s and early 70s. The novel was set in 1951, but things were just as bad (at least it seemed to me). Anyway, it gets a little lighter later on. Too realistic in the first chapters though. If you are lucky enough to think it's exaggerated it might not bother you so much. I read that, and most of Hunters books. Pretty good. The movie and series based on Earl Swagger just don't do the books justice. |
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Post by sperrytops on Nov 7, 2020 18:49:30 GMT -5
Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter. Very disturbing in the first chapters. It reminded me of several things I witnessed in Mississippi and Louisiana in the late 60s and early 70s. The novel was set in 1951, but things were just as bad (at least it seemed to me). Anyway, it gets a little lighter later on. Too realistic in the first chapters though. If you are lucky enough to think it's exaggerated it might not bother you so much. Read the plot summary for that on Wiki. Sounds intense. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 7, 2020 19:43:03 GMT -5
Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter. Very disturbing in the first chapters. It reminded me of several things I witnessed in Mississippi and Louisiana in the late 60s and early 70s. The novel was set in 1951, but things were just as bad (at least it seemed to me). Anyway, it gets a little lighter later on. Too realistic in the first chapters though. If you are lucky enough to think it's exaggerated it might not bother you so much. Read the plot summary for that on Wiki. Sounds intense. It was intense, almost more than I could stand. I guess because I know it was real, even though the book is fiction. It gets silly later on when he gathers every famous gun writer except for Skeeter to go with him for revenge. I can't stand to see a human being mistreated. Someday I need to try to get through the first couple of chapters of Ride the Wind, where Cynthia Anne Parker is taken by Comanches. Rough stuff. I also don't watch movies like Shindlers List for the same reason. If it's fiction it's fun. |
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Post by munroe on Nov 7, 2020 20:44:29 GMT -5
Just started "animal farm" by George Orwell. I'm only three chapters in and it seems to be an amusing read.
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Post by trailboss on Nov 7, 2020 21:11:00 GMT -5
Orwell was a forward thinking individual, and understood human nature.  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 7, 2020 21:16:40 GMT -5
Orwell was a forward thinking individual, and understood human nature. That's Stalin. |
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Post by trailboss on Nov 7, 2020 21:45:51 GMT -5
Maybe not a forward thinker in the strictest sense, but he saw events for what they were when others did not.
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Post by bigwoolie on Nov 11, 2020 14:35:48 GMT -5
"But there are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal it's mystery, its melancholy and its charm."
Theodore Roosevelt
Khartoum,
March 15, 1910
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Post by toshtego on Nov 11, 2020 19:15:10 GMT -5
Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter. Very disturbing in the first chapters. It reminded me of several things I witnessed in Mississippi and Louisiana in the late 60s and early 70s. The novel was set in 1951, but things were just as bad (at least it seemed to me). Anyway, it gets a little lighter later on. Too realistic in the first chapters though. If you are lucky enough to think it's exaggerated it might not bother you so much. I read that. Is that the story about Ed McGivens, Audie Murphy and Elmer Keith along with some liberal who go after Parchman Farm? |
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Toas Lightning, book about a horse race in 1880s from Galveston Texas to New England, 15 yr old boy takes his Dads place in race after his Dad has an accident that costs him his arm. Change of pace for me, reminds me of Hidalgo movie, enjoying it.
