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brian64

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Jan 31, 2011
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Almost finished with another of Philip K. Dick’s novels that I hadn’t read yet: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. As with all of his works, imo, a truly creative, inspired, insightful and entertaining read.

 

brian64

Lifer
Jan 31, 2011
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Star Mounds by Ross Hamilton. This is the follow up book to his excellent previous work which examined the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio, The Mystery of the Serpent Mound. The second book looks at many other such ancient earthworks in America.
It’s a shame that so little attention is given to these amazing and mysterious structures...and for anyone who is interested in these things, his first book on the Serpent Mound is truly profound, imo.

 

kashmir

Lifer
May 17, 2011
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Northern New Jersey
I'm on book five of Winston Churchill's six book set on the Second World War. We've just landed in Sicily, after the great battles of Tunesia. Great stuff and highly recommended.

 

tennsmoker

Lifer
Jul 2, 2010
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Just finished the last of Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy: "The Guns at Last Light: The War in Europe, 1944-1945," the final volume of his Liberation Trilogy

 

petes03

Lifer
Jun 23, 2013
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The Hills of Tennessee
Finishing up "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" collection, imagine that! Fixin to start another Clive Cussler book, I'm also finishing up "The Pipe Book" by Alfred Dunhill.

 

andrew

Lifer
Feb 13, 2013
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The reading of books is essential to the mystique of a real pipe smoker.

 

jah76

Lifer
Jun 27, 2012
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Wool: By Hugh Howey, Via mobile devices.

Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand. An actual book.

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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The Years with Ross, a memoir by James Thurber about Harold Ross, the founding editor of the New Yorker magazine.

Fascinating. He had all these brilliant literary and art folks at his disposal, but had little cultivated literary or artistic

taste. He was a newspaper man from Colorado, but he had a clear vision of what he wanted the magazine to be, despite

not always understanding the material he included. He'd ask others to explain it to him. The magazine was so good, it

could command the best talent around. Ross was brilliant at maintaining a focus of power in his little world, even though

he'd avoid meeting staffers or talking to them much. Thurber, who grew progressively more blind over the years, was

an exception, and was one of the writers who made Ross able to do what he did, although Thurber has a more modest

view of himself. Ross was swindled out of a large amount of money by a personal secretary, and he had a serious gambling

habit and couldn't stay married, but his magazine prospered and went on after he died and is with us today, still drawing

top talent.

 

boudreaux

Part of the Furniture Now
Apr 7, 2013
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Okay, on a more serious note -
Finished John Jakes' North and South trilogy. Yikes! 2,400+ pages, but very good if you are any kind of U.S. Civil War buff.

 
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