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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #25 on: November 22, 2009, 02:33:26 PM »
Quote from: Wayne on November 22, 2009, 02:32:16 PM
   I liked it better when Lucas Davenport was the hero but Virgil is okay cuz he learned from Lucas.

I can't believe that Sanford is done with Lucas.

He'll be back.
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #26 on: November 25, 2009, 07:12:33 AM »
Quote from: debk on November 22, 2009, 02:33:26 PM
I can't believe that Sanford is done with Lucas.

He'll be back.

I didn't know he was supposed to be done with him! :bawl: 
ETA: Nevermind the newest Davenport book will be out in May 2010.
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #27 on: November 25, 2009, 07:49:52 AM »
Just finished -- "An Army at Dawn",  by Rick Atkinson  -- the narrative history of WWII North Africa - where my dad served
Next up -- "The Day of Battle", also by Rick Atkinson -- the sequel where he follows the war to Sicily and Italy
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #28 on: November 25, 2009, 11:43:28 AM »
Quote from: rustybayonet on November 25, 2009, 07:49:52 AM
Just finished -- "An Army at Dawn",  by Rick Atkinson  -- the narrative history of WWII North Africa - where my dad served
Next up -- "The Day of Battle", also by Rick Atkinson -- the sequel where he follows the war to Sicily and Italy

Hey, rusty - hope all is well.

Atkinson's "Army at Dawn" won him a Pulitzer. I have not read "The Day of Battle" yet. I haven't studied the Sicilian and Italian campaigns of WWII a great deal, so I'm glad you mentioned Atkinson's sequel.

I am currently re-reading John D. MacDonald's "Travis McGee" series. This is no dimestore novel stuff - MacDonald really knew how to describe the human condition. And the hero doesn't always come out on top... :-)
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #29 on: November 25, 2009, 12:44:49 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on November 25, 2009, 11:43:28 AM
Hey, rusty - hope all is well.

Atkinson's "Army at Dawn" won him a Pulitzer. I have not read "The Day of Battle" yet. I haven't studied the Sicilian and Italian campaigns of WWII a great deal, so I'm glad you mentioned Atkinson's sequel.

I am currently re-reading John D. MacDonald's "Travis McGee" series. This is no dimestore novel stuff - MacDonald really knew how to describe the human condition. And the hero doesn't always come out on top... :-)

I love The Travis McGee series. Meyer is one of the great sidekicks in literature! :)
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #30 on: November 25, 2009, 02:13:50 PM »
Good here Eupher - and yourself?
Army at Dawn has a section of credits and research information, that could be a book itself, haven't started "Battle" yet, maybe this weekend.  Also haven't read the McGee series yet - have got so many stacked up in line, that after "Battle", hope to do "In Harms Way", the real story and history of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, then "Ike", and then "Darker than Night".  Still others on the shelf, but those have my interest right now.

Take care and have a great Thanksgiving!
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #31 on: November 25, 2009, 03:40:33 PM »
Quote from: Splashdown on November 25, 2009, 12:44:49 PM
I love The Travis McGee series. Meyer is one of the great sidekicks in literature! :)

Yeah, he and his "John Maynard Keynes", the dumpy little cruiser into which he's packed more books and paper which essentially leaves his houseboat stuck at the pier!  :lmao:
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #32 on: November 26, 2009, 11:36:14 PM »
Broke down and bought the new Vince Flynn hardback yesterday.....also picked up a Stuart Woods, Linda Fairstein, and James Patterson paperbacks that we haven't read yet....
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #33 on: November 27, 2009, 05:43:09 AM »
 I finished " Blood Game" byIris Johansen  Not recommended .
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #34 on: November 30, 2009, 02:35:46 PM »
Just finished this one up last night.

Not quite sure if I'm going to pick up another one immediately, or work some more on mine.  I found out over the holiday that my sister in law is working on a psychological thriller, and it would be nice to have a draft to exchange with her when she's done so we can proofread each other's work.
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #35 on: December 09, 2009, 08:48:36 PM »
I am re-reading the Left Behind series..just finished Nicolai.
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #36 on: December 09, 2009, 08:54:47 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on December 09, 2009, 08:48:36 PM
I am re-reading the Left Behind series..just finished Nicolai.

I have all of the books. Been a while since I read any of them, and I admit, I never finished. After about book five, they seemed to contrived, too assembly line for some reason.

I did watch the movie(s), a couple of months ago.  :lmao:
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #37 on: December 09, 2009, 08:57:59 PM »
Quote from: bkg on December 09, 2009, 08:54:47 PM
I have all of the books. Been a while since I read any of them, and I admit, I never finished. After about book five, they seemed to contrived, too assembly line for some reason.

I did watch the movie(s), a couple of months ago.  :lmao:


Was the movie any good? I hear Kirk Cameron is Buck??
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #38 on: December 09, 2009, 09:02:18 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on December 09, 2009, 08:57:59 PM
Was the movie any good? I hear Kirk Cameron is Buck??

Movies are HORRIBLE... HORRIBLE.

Beyond low-budget. They made Buck (Kirk Cameron, as you mentioned) a TV anchor instead of a reporter. It scews the entire story, IMHO... And did I mention it was horrible?
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #39 on: December 09, 2009, 10:35:25 PM »
Quote from: bkg on December 09, 2009, 08:54:47 PM
I have all of the books. Been a while since I read any of them, and I admit, I never finished. After about book five, they seemed to contrived, too assembly line for some reason.

I did watch the movie(s), a couple of months ago.  :lmao:


I think I made it to Book 11 or 12....

Finished a Stuart Woods book on the trip...it was set in Key West....I wanna go... :bawl:, will finish Cornwell's The Book of the Dead tonight that I forgot here at home....and am going to start Vince Flynn's new book.
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #40 on: December 10, 2009, 04:48:06 AM »
  Finished Vince Flynns "Pursuit of honor."  A VERY nice little slap at Barbara Boxer.

  Started Graftons "U is for undertow."
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #41 on: December 10, 2009, 11:30:59 AM »
Quote from: Wayne on December 10, 2009, 04:48:06 AM
 Finished Vince Flynns "Pursuit of honor."  A VERY nice little slap at Barbara Boxer.

  Started Graftons "U is for undertow."

She needs lots of those -- just to get her attention.

Just finished John D. MacDonald's "The Turquoise Lament" in the Travis McGee series and am into "The Dreadful Lemon Sky." Nobody writes about the human condition quite like MacDonald did (he died in 1986).

Here's a quote from "Bright Orange for the Shroud":
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"People take you at the value you put upon yourself. That makes it easy for them. All you do is blend in. Accept the customs of every new tribe. And you try not to say too much because then you sound as if you were selling something... Sweetie, everybody in this wide world is so constantly, continuously concerned with the impact he's making, he just doesn't have the time to wonder too much about the next guy."

Here's another quote, from the book that I'm currently reading. Lord, they just don't make writers like this anymore:

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His usual at-home drink was Plymouth gin, until in 1974 the inevitable happened. Here is how he tells it in THE DREADFUL LEMON SKY, p.32. "I...broke out the very last bottle of the Plymouth gin which had been bottled in the United Kingdom. All the others were bottled in the U.S. Gin People, it isn't the same. It's still a pretty good gin, but it is not a superb, stingingly dry, and lovely gin. ...There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer types come in on their twinkle toes and take over the store, and in a trice they figure out just how far they can cut quality and still increase the market penetration... Thus the very good things of the world go down the drain, from honest turkey to honest eggs to honest tomatoes. And gin."

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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #42 on: December 10, 2009, 01:01:00 PM »
I don't know why I am embarrassed to admit this but I am reading Jeanine Frost's Night Huntress Series right now.   It is brain candy and sexy vampire brain candy at that.
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #43 on: December 10, 2009, 01:51:43 PM »
Quote from: Wayne on December 10, 2009, 04:48:06 AM
  Finished Vince Flynns "Pursuit of honor."  A VERY nice little slap at Barbara Boxer.

  Started Graftons "U is for undertow."
Is it good? I have read all of them so far, but I did find T is for Trespass hard going.

I reading 2666 by Roberto Bolano. It's hard to describe, but great so far.
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #44 on: December 10, 2009, 02:29:00 PM »
 To me it was good but then I like to read about Mitch Rapp kicking ass.
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #45 on: December 10, 2009, 02:33:56 PM »
Quote from: Wayne on December 10, 2009, 02:29:00 PM
To me it was good but then I like to read about Mitch Rapp kicking ass.
That's good, of course having got as far as "T" I'm not going stop before Z.  :-)
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #46 on: December 10, 2009, 03:11:34 PM »
Quote from: Wayne on December 10, 2009, 02:29:00 PM
To me it was good but then I like to read about Mitch Rapp kicking ass.


Just started Pursuit of Honor this morning....other half really enjoyed it....but we both like reading about Mitch kicking ass, too.
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #47 on: December 10, 2009, 03:16:42 PM »
 :cheersmate:
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #48 on: December 19, 2009, 09:54:27 AM »
Just finished reading The Prince again. About to pick up The Road to Serfdom again after all the infiltration of collectivism into political decisions that involves my daily routines.
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Re: What was the last book you read?
« Reply #49 on: December 19, 2009, 02:42:00 PM »
Currently reading The Long Fuse: How England Lost The American Colonies, 1760-1785 by somebody named Don Cook.
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