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Sherlock Holmes!
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Just the daily paper now. Its the only thing I have time for. Thinking of ordering the book Pipe dreams though.
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Just the daily paper now. Its the only thing I have time for. Thinking of ordering the book Pipe dreams though.
I just started "Pipe Dreams". Not exactly what I thought it would be, more of an anecdotal collection of pipe articles than book. But, for $15 delivered via Amazon (paperback), not a bad investment and a book you can read one chapter at a time.Al
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The Leauge of Family, which is a friend of mines first venture into writing. A good read, but not my kind of book.
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I was gonna thank Lawrence for plugging my book, but after Hobie's remark, I don't want anything of mine getting "plugged"
BTW, I'm not a badass, I'm just socially awkward. – BillyZoomPosted 8 months ago # -
Just started "The Master Executioner" by Loren Estleman and the first book in the Hector Lynch series by Tim Severin. The first title is a Western and when people find out I read Westerns they usually say something like, "Westerns are for old guys..." etc. Not all Westerns are equal. The prose of an Estleman novel or an old short Western by Elmore Leonard is a good read. The second title is a swashbuckle type novel and I plan on starting that one tonight.
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I read Louis L'amour's "Riding for the Brand" again awhile back. That's a great bunch of stories.
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I've listened to a few of L'Amour's stuff, good old fashion action, the good and the bad buys are easily defined.
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I've been reading LOTR again for the third time or so.
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I'd reccommend Riding for the Brand for anyone, even if you're not fond of westerns. Those short stories almost have a Ronin Samurai feel to them a lot of the time.
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Sounds good, I'll add it to the list.
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Universe.....amazing pics
Marry the right person, this one decision will determine 90% of your happiness.
Does a culture based on seperation and competition, of scientific sophistication and mideval religion, offer happiness even as it ravishes the Earth that sustains it?Posted 8 months ago # -
Just finished geting my bi annual Gemmel fix
New Zealand
Peter Piper.
Give me the weed, the fragrant weed, My wearied brain to calm; In a wreath of smoke, while I crack my joke, I'll find a healing balm.Posted 8 months ago # -
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Universe.....amazing pics
+1 I was just paging thru my copy of that not to long ago.Posted 8 months ago # -
Agincourt by Juliet Barker
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Agincourt by Juliet Barker
Excellent book! I use to make and shoot traditional English style long bows (not American Flat bows) until the city bylaws changed and messed everything up.
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Edgar Allen Poe, Complete Tales & Poems. No matter how many times I read them its always like the first time.
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That is awesome wardrum. Each October I read my Edgar Allen Poe collection.
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at the moment, "Management Policies in Local Governemnt Finance, Fifth Edition" Definitely not for pleasure, but for school. I should be asleep in about ten minutes...
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t the moment, "Management Policies in Local Governemnt Finance, Fifth Edition" Definitely not for pleasure, but for school. I should be asleep in about ten minutes... [:|]
Wait, so my local government is supposed to be managing their finances. Where can we get this book?
(you KNEW there'd be at least one joke on this, right? )Posted 8 months ago # -
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Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara. I love reading about the Civil War!
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I am reading The Sixth Man by David Baldacci. This is about the 8th or 9th book I have read by this author.
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right now at work a set of mechanical prints for a Nursing Home we are bidding on...talk about BORING
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Sherlock Holmes... in the Jeremy Brett series order.
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Guns,Germs and steel. Jared diamond.
its a interesting read and take on the difference between those who have and those who dont and whyPosted 7 months ago # -
Sounds good, I'll add it to the list.
My list is already so long, I could spend all day just reading the list.
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Been intermittently working on Hunter S. Thompson's The Proud Highway.
Also reading Robert Crais' The First Rule.Thought in the early morning, solace in time of woes,
Peace in the hush of the twilight, balm ere my eyelids close
Rudyard KiplingPosted 7 months ago # -
Time magazine
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I've been reading Rick Newcomb's book, In Search of Pipe Dreams. It a good read. I recommend it.
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This week I finished Lisey's Story and Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King, both very good. . except the second half of Hearts in Atlantis just. . .it didn't hold up to the first.
Also reading Early Imperial China by DR. Tanner, Gone To Texas by Randolf B Campbell and The Romans: From Village to Empire by Boatwright, Gargola and Talbert. -- the latter being the most interesting and most entertainingly written. Though I do find that it is a little too conservative in several different senses of that word (none having to do with modern politics).
Also read two of Plutarch's Lives today from Rome in Crisis ( a Penguin Book Classic containing 9 of his Lives, all relevant to the Fall of the Republic) -- specifically Sertorius and Lucullus -- both of which were fascinating in comparison to the BGT text (that's what we call Village to Empire) which was so. . . again, conservative is the best word for it, if you can attach yourself to the right connotative meanings of it. Besides, Plutarch is very good at romanticizing without making it feel like that's what he's doing, except that when you compare it to his own words in "Should an Old Man Take Part in Public Life?" which starkly criticizes the actions of Lucullus in his retirement (that he retired at all, and how he retired)as a general rule, though he is very generous of the actions when confronted with a man guilty of them directly. Though is is most likely partially out of honor and else out of bias (Lucullus was favourable to Greeks, and Plutarch loves any who love Greek art/philosophy as well as having been a loyal citizen of Chaeronea, whick Lucullus had done a grand kindness of sorts for).
Just because they're for school doesn't mean they don't count.
Also, Monday I'll start. . . .I guess Bag of Bones? (running out of King books. . .need to go pick up some more) and probably Tuesday or Thursday read (they're only around 200 pages) either Wu Zhao: China's Only Woman Emperor by N. Harry Rothschild or else Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History by Arnoldo De Leon . . .. I suspect the Wu Zhao book to be FAR more interesting. .. as its subject matter is, but I've heard Rothschild to be almost as dry and disappointing as Loewe.
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YoruPosted 7 months ago # -
Read the De Leon book and Bag of Bones this week.
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The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
“The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.” - Jeff Cooper
“Hoplophobia is a mental disturbance characterized by irrational aversion to weapons, as opposed to justified apprehension about those who may wield them.”
– To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the TruthPosted 7 months ago # -
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard. Just finished reading the short story Hills of the Dead.
"The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected..."
-William Makepeace Thackeray, from The Social PipePosted 6 months ago # -
Currently reading "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers, Genesis (just finised reading the New Testament straight through and now onto the Old Testament) and also the complete Sherlock Holmes collection.
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Conquest,The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450 by Juliet Barker.Jaybird I used to shoot the Longbow a few years back when I was in the archery club,duff shoulder put a stop to that.
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Fry The Brain: The Art of Urban Sniping and its Role in Modern Guerrilla Warfare
The collected tales of Edgar Allen PoePosted 6 months ago # -
@ nikko
Are you familiar with the Christain Classics Ethereal Library
Many of the classics are available free if you like to read at your computer or have an ebook.
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Lots of other books are available for free at the Public Domain section of Feedbooks.
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Communion with God, by Neale Donald Walsh
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The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual
Very interesting, but not much of a plot.
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"To ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth" Jeff Cooper
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A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
Reading to the kids, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'EngleIf you can't fix it with a hammer, then it must be an electrical problemPosted 6 months ago # -
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I am almost 53 years old and have never read any of the J.R.R. Tolkien books. I just received a paperback copy of The Hobbit I picked up on eBay. I have the hard copy of the LOTR Trilogy somewhere, but wanted to read The Hobbit first. I will be starting it this evening.
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currently reading an Overdraft Notice from the bank.
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currently reading an Overdraft Notice from the bank.
Hobie that ain't good!! Please don't pass that onto me'
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I'm going through Waiting for Godot for a Lit class and then I'm rereading Don Quixote for the third time.
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i am currently going through the discworld series.
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"Radical Brewing: Recipes, Tales and World-Altering Meditations in a Glass" by Randy Mosher. Tuning up for my next home brew project.
Phil
Beguiled by the exquisite Arcadia, the days and the years passed from me in delicate rings of smoke,
and I contentedly watched them sailing to the skies. - J.M. BarriePosted 5 months ago # -
@baskerville: Enjoy The Hobbit and LOTR. Those books changed my life, somewhat.
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"Iron Man" the Tony Iommi story, a pretty interesting read!
Waiting on the new Stephen King novel about the JFK assassination.Posted 5 months ago # -
End of days by Zecharia Sitchen and Gods of Eden.
"Long before man warred with man, the gods battled among themselves. Indeed it was the wars of the gods that the wars of man began. For the wars of the gods for control of the earth began on their own planet. It was thus that mankinds first civilization succumbed to a nuclear holocaust. This is fact not fiction, and its all been written down a long time ago."Posted 5 months ago # -
Seanz, my wife has all the discworld books big fan.
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Go Racing magazine
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Pale Horse Coming, by Stephen Hunter
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Pale Horse Coming, by Stephen Hunter
I never miss a new Hunter novel and that one was great.Posted 5 months ago # -
Just finished "True Yo The Old Flag" a historical novel about the American revolution from the English Royalists point of view.
Starting "Journals Of Lewis and Clark)
Sir Walter Raleigh, name of worth, how sweet for thee to know.
King James, who never smoked on earth, Is smoking down below.Posted 5 months ago # -
Reading sherlock holmes for a second time
Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.
Jef I. RichardsPosted 5 months ago #
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