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That's a great description of the book. I loved it and got a kick out of all the footnotes.
I’m a big fan of Bosch, Lucas Davenport, and Jack Reacher, so the Dave Robicheaux books by James Lee Burke were recently recommended to me. They take place in Louisiana bayou country, with some New Orleans ties frequently in play. Really love Burke’s writing style….very poetic, thoughtful, and perfectly captures the essence of life in southern Louisiana. Dave and his buddy Clete are no nonsense and frequently employ violence and unorthodox measures to get the bad guy. For fans of Harry Bosch and Lucas Davenport especially, can’t recommend this series enough!
I like books set in Louisiana, I have not read this series, but will, thank!
You might like this crime trilogy, also set in the New Iberia area.
This is the first
I liked many of the earlier Bosch novels, the later ones not quite so much. I’ll have to check it out
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Thanks, I will look into this! Definitely give the Robicheaux series a try. It took a couple books for the series to come into its own, but it’s fantastic. Lots of really BAD mobster characters. Dave has a lot of inner demons he is always battling and his buddy Clete is a trip. My dad didn’t like the series cause he thought it was too violent, but it always cracks me up when Dave and Clete bend the rules and someone gets an a$$ kicking!
I never saw the movie, but I just finished the novel, Inherent Vice, probably Pynchon’s most accessible novel. Having grown up in LA in the late ‘60’s/early ‘70’s, I found it to be a walk down memory lane, given the numerous references to local pop culture and hang-outs of the time. He even mentioned the name of an obscure singer I knew personally. The plot is also quite amusing, albeit somewhat convoluted as is typical of Pynchon.
Yesterday my wife perked up and wanted to drive to Lake of the Ozarks and we sort of have a ritual. We’ve been in love so long that she can drive through Starbucks and get what I like and I can go into Stonecrest Book and Toy and buy books she likes plus I usually get a new Pearl Harbor book, if it’s not conspiracy related, because my beloved FDR hating Grandma left me her entire library of those.
I went out to the car, gave her three books she likes and the business card of the store and she liked them so much she said go back in there, and take a picture of their turtle that guards the books!
Sadly, the turtle had met his demise due to old age long ago, but they keep sort of a shine to him in there.
Stonecrest Book and Toy keeps six young full time employees working shifts and to earn the privilege to sell their toys and books they have to be college graduates or attending college.
Those young ladies argued over which Pearl Harbor book I’d like and when I read the cover and back page of this one, I could have kissed those girls except I’m a happily married man.
My sweetie asked me, gee, how does that Pearl Harbor book end?
And I said I swear on my dead FDR hating Grandma’s grave——I have no idea!
I hope the Japanese American naval intelligence officer catches that rat bastard Japanese spy and they hang him higher than Haman, but I’ll have to read it to find out.
I went out to the car, gave her three books she likes and the business card of the store and she liked them so much she said go back in there, and take a picture of their turtle that guards the books!
Sadly, the turtle had met his demise due to old age long ago, but they keep sort of a shine to him in there.
Stonecrest Book and Toy keeps six young full time employees working shifts and to earn the privilege to sell their toys and books they have to be college graduates or attending college.
Those young ladies argued over which Pearl Harbor book I’d like and when I read the cover and back page of this one, I could have kissed those girls except I’m a happily married man.
My sweetie asked me, gee, how does that Pearl Harbor book end?
And I said I swear on my dead FDR hating Grandma’s grave——I have no idea!
I hope the Japanese American naval intelligence officer catches that rat bastard Japanese spy and they hang him higher than Haman, but I’ll have to read it to find out.
I don't read many hard books these days, but picked this up for a few bucks.
As a lover of 80s Sci-Fi and horror; I'm really digging this right now.
Yes, that is a good one. Dean Koontz could make the phone book interesting to read......
I kinda don't want to finish it with how much I like it. Its been at least 15 years but I'm thinking about revisiting Watchers next.
Watchers was my first Koontz book. I also came back and read it again years later. I've read several of his books twice.
The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor —- BEVERLY HILLS SPY
By Ronald Drabkin
Available at real book stores like Stonecrest Book and Toy
My wife always drives through Starbucks and gets what she knows I want and I go into Stonecrest Book and Toy and get a Pearl Harbor Book for me and a book I know she’ll like.
Usually she looks at my Pearl Harbor Book and sarcastically says I wonder how Pearl Harbor turns out, but this one she said He either died in prison or they hung his spy ass.
I said, but he was a War Hero!
She said maybe they only shot him.
I’m going to read it and find out.
By Ronald Drabkin
Available at real book stores like Stonecrest Book and Toy
My wife always drives through Starbucks and gets what she knows I want and I go into Stonecrest Book and Toy and get a Pearl Harbor Book for me and a book I know she’ll like.
Usually she looks at my Pearl Harbor Book and sarcastically says I wonder how Pearl Harbor turns out, but this one she said He either died in prison or they hung his spy ass.
I said, but he was a War Hero!
She said maybe they only shot him.
I’m going to read it and find out.
These aren't my typical "pipe smoking books" but a few that I picked up this last winter and casually read inside. Good "bedtime books."
Fret Sawing and Wood Carving by George A. Sawyer, 1875
A Manual of Fret Cutting and Wood Carving by Sir Thomas Seaton, 1875
Manual of Fret Sawing and Wood Carving, American News Company, undated but 1870's
I was attracted to these by the fact that I've long been a casual whittler, (not artistic, but "whimseys..." chains, balls in cages, stuff with moving and sliding parts, etc,) and while I've got a very nice fret saw, I never considered the two together. These books coupled the two activities in their titles. Back in the late 1800's, fret sawing was considered a boy's pastime, but was later taken up more seriously by adults. These books give an interesting take on an outwardly simple subject, with a flavor of times long gone, occasionally getting into such things as how to make stains, etc, using materials that I doubt one could obtain any more.
I decided to print the picture off the cover of the smaller, paperbound book, showing a charming domestic scene from the 1870's... The father in his chair reading his paper, the mother sewing back in a corner, and the children sawing wood on the living room table.
Fret Sawing and Wood Carving by George A. Sawyer, 1875
A Manual of Fret Cutting and Wood Carving by Sir Thomas Seaton, 1875
Manual of Fret Sawing and Wood Carving, American News Company, undated but 1870's
I was attracted to these by the fact that I've long been a casual whittler, (not artistic, but "whimseys..." chains, balls in cages, stuff with moving and sliding parts, etc,) and while I've got a very nice fret saw, I never considered the two together. These books coupled the two activities in their titles. Back in the late 1800's, fret sawing was considered a boy's pastime, but was later taken up more seriously by adults. These books give an interesting take on an outwardly simple subject, with a flavor of times long gone, occasionally getting into such things as how to make stains, etc, using materials that I doubt one could obtain any more.
I decided to print the picture off the cover of the smaller, paperbound book, showing a charming domestic scene from the 1870's... The father in his chair reading his paper, the mother sewing back in a corner, and the children sawing wood on the living room table.
