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Post by puffy on Dec 25, 2017 13:55:14 GMT -5
I bought a copy of this book when it first came out some 30 years ago.Some how when I moved from the frozen north to Carolina It got lost in the transaction..Santa just brought me another copy..It's an old book and some of it is dated now.I'm sure I will spend a good deal of time reading it several more times though..Some times Santa surprises us in a good way.
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Post by trailboss on Dec 25, 2017 14:16:33 GMT -5
It is a great read, he certainly has a great sense of humor...I got a good chuckle as he related his experience of cleaning his pipes on a commercial flight.😄
I recommended that Brian interview him on a podcast, but he had already asked him, and he said that he doesn’t do interview’s.
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Post by daveinlax on Dec 26, 2017 0:15:26 GMT -5
I recommended that Brian interview him on a podcast, but he had already asked him, and he said that he doesn’t do interview’s. The first edition of the TUPB was my introduction into the hobby a few years before we got our first computer. I made the same suggestion (and many others) and got the same answer which is BS because Rick was on the Just for Him Pipe Podcast a few years ago and he was just on Kiss My Ash Radio a few months ago. I suspect it's a clash of big egos. A lot of guys in the hobby have a bad attitude towards Rick. I get that he is a shameless self promoter who seems full of himself but agree with him or not he's the one who put pen to paper and has made a living as a freelance and staff lifestyle writer, writing about what he loves Booze, Cigars, Travel, Pipes and Guns.  |
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Post by trailboss on Dec 26, 2017 0:53:18 GMT -5
That makes a lot of sense, because reading his book he sounds like a pretty outgoing gregarious sort... (I think I have another if his books also)
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Post by HunterTRW on Dec 26, 2017 7:12:38 GMT -5
My guess is that he declined an interview with the PipesMagazine Radio Show for exactly the reason cited above. King Kevin of Magazonia is attempting to be the self-styled Richard Carleton Hacker of the 21st century, but unfortunately all he is about is image, a poseur, if you will. Further, he lacks Mr. Hacker's credentials as an author and bona fide tobacco industry expert, and I suspect that they both know it, thereby the avoidance on both parts.
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Post by sablebrush52 on Dec 28, 2017 0:05:39 GMT -5
Hacker did pioneering work and his writings are a good introduction to pipes. That said, a lot of research has been done in the past couple of decades and there is a lot more accurate information to be found on a number of sites. So, read your Hacker, but take him with a few grains of salt, and verify elsewhere.
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Post by philobeddoe on Jan 3, 2018 1:08:02 GMT -5
Hackers’ Ultimate Pipe Book was my introduction to the world of pipes and tobaccos outside of my local B&M, it’s a book I cherish and have since purchased all of his other books on pipe smoking.
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