What's Currently on Your Reading List?
- jerryd6818
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
I suppose all of you sci-fi readers have read the Dune series.
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This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
I did not like Dune. For me the book was as dry as the sands in which the story was set.jerryd6818 wrote:I suppose all of you sci-fi readers have read the Dune series.
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I think I have read a few of those.
The last series I finished was the Starfist series; Marines in Space, Oorah!
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orvet wrote:I did not like Dune. For me the book was as dry as the sands in which the story was set.jerryd6818 wrote:I suppose all of you sci-fi readers have read the Dune series.
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This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
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--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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Just finished Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King...about the loss of the US Brig Commerce off the western shore of Africa in 1815, and the subsequent enslavement of it's crew by Arabs in the Sahara desert...pretty intense re-counting of a true story, those men were made to suffer for certain. I like reading stories of survival, nautical stories, historical fiction and non-fiction. One of my favorites is The Sea Wolf by Jack London, read that one many a time.
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
We are sure getting older...What happen to the old trashy magazines????...Easy Rider??....just looking at the ol Harleys.....heeehee....Now days an old western novel is ok with me

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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series is on my to find and reread list. I went to my favorite use sci-fi bookstore and found only a single copy of one of the approximately 15 books in that series. I guess everybody else had the same idea since the John Carter movie comes out tomorrow.
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Tons of 'em on eBay but most aren't cheap.orvet wrote:Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series is on my to find and reread list. I went to my favorite use sci-fi bookstore and found only a single copy of one of the approximately 15 books in that series. I guess everybody else had the same idea since the John Carter movie comes out tomorrow.
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The Few. The Proud.
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This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
I recently finished a book by Stephen King titled 11/22/63. It is about a guy who has a chance to go back in time and stop the JFK asassination.
I don't like all his writing, but I really enjoyed this book. He even manages to wrap characters from a previous book into this one!
I also enjoyed his Dark Tower series.
Glenn
I don't like all his writing, but I really enjoyed this book. He even manages to wrap characters from a previous book into this one!
I also enjoyed his Dark Tower series.
Glenn
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I will soon finish "Empire of the summer moon", suggested by Cowboy on Dec. 12th.
Very good history and apparently well researched.
If you like North American indian history and history of the early American West this book is calling to you.
The book cost something like $7.00 at Alibris.
Very good history and apparently well researched.
If you like North American indian history and history of the early American West this book is calling to you.
The book cost something like $7.00 at Alibris.
Joe
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Joe,
I read Empire of the Summer Moon when it first came out a year or so ago. Outstanding read. I was born and raised in the Fort Worth area. As a child on family vacations, while driving up through the Texas Panhandle to Borger to see my grandparents, my dad would point out the various Indian sites, like Medicine Mound, Palo Duro Canyon etc. That made the book that much more interesting for me.
I told him about it, and he read it as well - he said he enjoyed more than any book he has read in years.
I picked up the book "The Captured" as well. It's about whites who were taken captive by the Comanche and Apache during the 1860-70s in Texas. It's a good read too.
I read Empire of the Summer Moon when it first came out a year or so ago. Outstanding read. I was born and raised in the Fort Worth area. As a child on family vacations, while driving up through the Texas Panhandle to Borger to see my grandparents, my dad would point out the various Indian sites, like Medicine Mound, Palo Duro Canyon etc. That made the book that much more interesting for me.
I told him about it, and he read it as well - he said he enjoyed more than any book he has read in years.
I picked up the book "The Captured" as well. It's about whites who were taken captive by the Comanche and Apache during the 1860-70s in Texas. It's a good read too.
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Just got a couple of new ones for my birthday:
Unrepentant Sinner - the autobiography of Colonel Charles Askins.
http://www.amazon.com/Unrepentant-Sinne ... 105&sr=8-1
No Second Place Winner, by Bill Jordan
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Place-Winn ... 156&sr=1-1
Under the Overpass, by Mike Yankoski
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Overpass-Jo ... 261&sr=1-1
Gonna be a good weekend
Unrepentant Sinner - the autobiography of Colonel Charles Askins.
http://www.amazon.com/Unrepentant-Sinne ... 105&sr=8-1
No Second Place Winner, by Bill Jordan
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Place-Winn ... 156&sr=1-1
Under the Overpass, by Mike Yankoski
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Overpass-Jo ... 261&sr=1-1
Gonna be a good weekend
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Good reading there, Blue.
I have a Jordan designed K frame Smith. Model 19.
I have all of Robert Service's work. Great stuff.
Unk,
I hope to get in that country some day. Thanks for your responce. I'm from the West. Spokane, Wa....
But I want to hang out in the real west sometime.
I have a Jordan designed K frame Smith. Model 19.
I have all of Robert Service's work. Great stuff.
Unk,
I hope to get in that country some day. Thanks for your responce. I'm from the West. Spokane, Wa....
But I want to hang out in the real west sometime.
Joe
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Mitch all that Vampire stuff is a little far out there for me. But then again, I would like to see this movie and that desire makes me wonder about myself.
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"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
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MITCH
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"So far,So good...So What!" - Johnnie Samples
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"So far,So good...So What!" - Johnnie Samples
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Jerry, there's a message in there just crying to be read out-loud!!
"There are none so blind as those that refuse to see"
God Bless America - Though I don't know why he would want to.
God Bless America - Though I don't know why he would want to.
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hahahahahahahaha! Love 'em both!
Second one reminds me of FALLING DOWN w/ Michael Douglas
Second one reminds me of FALLING DOWN w/ Michael Douglas
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Don`t you guys read anything interesting? Like this............ 
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In the '50s and early '60s, MM was the wet dream of every boy my age.
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The Few. The Proud.
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This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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I remember when Marilyn Monroe died. I was 15 years old. I didn't think of her in some sexy way.
I thought of her as a glorious, georgeous, beautiful woman. A fabulous movie star at the top of every thing, and then she was dead. I was really sad about that.
I thought of her as a glorious, georgeous, beautiful woman. A fabulous movie star at the top of every thing, and then she was dead. I was really sad about that.
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I was in boot camp when she died. We were at the rifle range and I don't recall the Drill Instructors saying anything about it. A week after her death, I turned 18.
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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Just got a new stack:
The Real Contra War, by Timothy Brown
http://www.amazon.com/The-Real-Contra-W ... _ir_all_25
Leading at the Edge, by Dennis Perkins
http://www.amazon.com/Leading-The-Edge- ... 513&sr=1-2
and for some stress relief:
Calico Joe, by John Grisham
http://www.amazon.com/Calico-Joe-John-G ... 584&sr=1-1
The Real Contra War, by Timothy Brown
http://www.amazon.com/The-Real-Contra-W ... _ir_all_25
Leading at the Edge, by Dennis Perkins
http://www.amazon.com/Leading-The-Edge- ... 513&sr=1-2
and for some stress relief:
Calico Joe, by John Grisham
http://www.amazon.com/Calico-Joe-John-G ... 584&sr=1-1
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Well, the movie, titled "Jack Reacher" instead of the books title "One Shot" will be In theaters December 21, 2012. Lil' Tommy Cruise (5' 7") will be wearing shoes with 10" lifts to come up to the mythical Jack Reacher's 6' 5". Love the idea of making "One Shot" or any of the other Lee Child books into a movie. Hate the casting.
Yes, I'll go see it.
Edit: I just watched the trailer. Maybe I won't go see it.
http://www.jackreachermovie.com/#/videos
Yes, I'll go see it.
Edit: I just watched the trailer. Maybe I won't go see it.
http://www.jackreachermovie.com/#/videos
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012