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Post by Wolfman on Oct 13, 2017 8:40:00 GMT -5
I'm currently reading ''From Russia With Love' by Ian Fleming. Prior to this I read 'Golden Prey' by John Sandford.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 13, 2017 18:44:27 GMT -5
Back to reading another Douglas Reeman Royal Navy saga. This one about Minesweepers in The Big War (that being WWII for Dobie and Maynard, here).
A wonderful author of sea stories and the military, we lost him this year. I have been reading his books since 1967 and enjoyed them all to read again and again. A genuine gentleman who often took time to reply to my emails discussing his books. Also, a diehard pipe smoker. He was seldom photographed without a briar in his face. His good lady wife commented that one of the things she misses is the cloud of tobacco smoke in his working space.
I shall miss him a lot but he left behind a vast collection of stories.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 13, 2017 18:46:27 GMT -5
I'm currently reading ''From Russia With Love' by Ian Fleming. Prior to this I read 'Golden Prey' by John Sandford. I read that back in the middle 1960s during the Ian Flemming craze. Decent story as I recall. The movie was OK. Mainly memorable for being Pedro Armandaraz' last movie. |
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Post by Wolfman on Oct 31, 2017 6:50:42 GMT -5
I'm currently reading 'The Guns of August' by Barbera Tuchman.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 7:59:40 GMT -5
The Robber Barons by Mattew Josephson printed in 1934.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 31, 2017 10:05:59 GMT -5
Billy Boyle Series, by J Been, a young Boston cop who is Ike's nephew gets swept into action in WWII as Ike's special investigator for crimes committed internally by Armed Forces. Light read but good stories.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Oct 31, 2017 10:18:09 GMT -5
This Month: Night of the Moonbow by Thomas Tryon, The Butterfly Revolution by William Butler (Ironically both of these stories unfold at summer camps and I had purchased them randomly at a thrift shop and read them while up at my camp.) Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stevie King, and A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 31, 2017 20:05:49 GMT -5
I'm currently reading 'The Guns of August' by Barbera Tuchman. Tuchman was a lively readable historian. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 22:08:00 GMT -5
The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2017 18:45:24 GMT -5
Alternating between the new biography of Lou Reed by Anthony De Curtis, and Charles Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop.
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Post by JDunbar on Jan 8, 2018 12:15:01 GMT -5
I just recently finished Love in the Time of Cholera by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez...Excelent book!
Just started a little book titled..NIGHT by Elie Wiesel..a book about the authors time and experiences the German Concentration camp Auschwitz.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 12:17:55 GMT -5
"The Gentleman From Japan, an Inspector O Novel", by James Church. The Inspector O novels are very, very good and often take place in North Korea. I highly recommend the series to you mystery buffs.
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Post by JDunbar on Jan 8, 2018 12:22:45 GMT -5
"The Gentleman From Japan, an Inspector O Novel", by James Church. The Inspector O novels are very, very good and often take place in North Korea. I highly recommend the series to you mystery buffs. The title of the book you're reading reminded me of the book "A Gentleman in Moscow" Great read and worth reading again. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 12:30:53 GMT -5
"The Gentleman From Japan, an Inspector O Novel", by James Church. The Inspector O novels are very, very good and often take place in North Korea. I highly recommend the series to you mystery buffs. The title of the book you're reading reminded me of the book "A Gentleman in Moscow" Great read and worth reading again. Just checked out a synopsis of the plot. Sounds interesting. I will pick it up at the library and give it a read. Thanks. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 8, 2018 12:31:32 GMT -5
I just recently finished Love in the Time of Cholera by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez...Excelent book! Just started a little book titled..NIGHT by Elie Wiesel..a book about the authors time and experiences the German Concentration camp Auschwitz. That one was required reading at my high school. Good read. |
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Post by slomo on Jan 9, 2018 13:48:15 GMT -5
Champagne For One by Rex Stout. I have become seriously dependent on Nero Wolf stories!
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Post by trailboss on Jan 9, 2018 15:00:33 GMT -5
The Gentle art of smoking by Alfred Dunhill It was recommended by JD at the Country Squire, it is a great book with some facts that I had never known, especially the use of some of the terms we use and how they came about. (more about that later) I also have The Pipe Book By Alfred Dunhill also, but it is comparatively a pretty dry read by comparison...mostly concerned with ancient pipes none of us will ever smoke. I know that you guys are probably sick of seeing this pipe of mine..but I saw it's brother in the gentle art of pipe smoking...better yet, mine has finer detail.    |
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Post by Wolfman on Jan 9, 2018 22:48:06 GMT -5
This week I'm reading Robicheaux by James Lee Burke.
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Post by bonanzadriver on Jan 10, 2018 0:43:34 GMT -5
Re-reading Corporate Lifecycles by Adizes.
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Post by Darin on Jan 10, 2018 9:24:02 GMT -5
Re-reading Corporate Lifecycles by Adizes. We studied some of his methods while training for Six Sigma. I made it to green belt before leaving that company.  |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 10, 2018 13:17:56 GMT -5
Wolfman let me know about Burkes book, he and I fished in the same Bay, he autographed several of my books.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2018 13:55:05 GMT -5
I feel so cheap reading cheap fiction, but I love this one: The Haunting of Bechdel Mansion by Robert Hayden
It's an easy read of a complex plot. It hits all the bases and grabs you fairly quickly.
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Post by JDunbar on Jan 13, 2018 12:52:24 GMT -5
Just started a Audio Book of Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Over 22 hours long.
I've gotten into audio books a lot more last year. Plop down into a chair in the yard, pop in the headphones and light a pipe. Life is good.
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Post by mgtarheel on Jan 14, 2018 13:04:24 GMT -5
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Issacson
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Post by JDunbar on Jan 22, 2018 14:36:21 GMT -5
Just started listening to the book "New Of The World" by Paulette Jiles. So far so good! "In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act "civilized." Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember -- strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become -- in the eyes of the law -- a kidnapper himself."  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2018 21:33:15 GMT -5
"The Wolf at Twilight, An Indian Elder's Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows" by Kent Nerburn.
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Post by That Falls Guy on Jan 23, 2018 0:49:53 GMT -5
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Post by Dramatwist on Jan 23, 2018 15:12:06 GMT -5
"E. B. White, A Biography" by Scott Elledge
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Post by JDunbar on Jan 26, 2018 16:40:16 GMT -5
Just finished the audio book Deliverance. So much different than the Burt Reynolds movie.Goes much deeper with more of a psychological examination of the personality's of the men involve on this wild canoe trip. I highly recommend.
Now I gotta watch the movie again!
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