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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #400 on: June 29, 2012, 03:23:25 AM »
Just finished Brad Thor's "Full Black".

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it.

Will scare the crap out of you, it's so possible.  :o
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #401 on: July 01, 2012, 12:37:46 PM »
Quote from: debk on June 29, 2012, 03:23:25 AM
Just finished Brad Thor's "Full Black".

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it.

Will scare the crap out of you, it's so possible.  :o

I love Brad Thor and that is next on my list. I can't wait to read it.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #402 on: August 14, 2012, 11:09:46 AM »
I know I mention Mom allot here, but sometimes she is surprising in her literary tastes.

She being Yankee down to her bones visits the Library once a month and checks the cast off bins, free books donated and comes up with some surprises.

Last month she pulled in 4 of her better selections and just dropped them off 3 with me.   One went to son about the Civil War about one of the Souths Generals he admires.

First one I got is  Afternoons with Emily-----about Emily Dickinson-----Her review is that old Emily was a Strange woman but the book is insightful.

Second, Sons of Camelot, ---Her review is how lucky our family was not born to wealth nor educated at Harvard.

 Third is Dawn by Elie Wiesel-------The Anguish and loss of the Moral Jew who has placed himself on the other side of the gun.-------Her review is she is going looking for the other books he has written.

Unfortunately at 90 years old she gets headaches from reading for hours and has decided to give it a rest for the next month or so.

Rats, the family depends on her finds to take us all over the world.   Perhaps 10 years from now Mom will still be delivering her child and grand kids books she gets for free and allways a surprise and interesting.





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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #403 on: October 29, 2012, 12:41:00 PM »
I can't believe I spent my weekend reading a book about the Brady Bunch.  I hate that show.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #404 on: October 29, 2012, 12:41:59 PM »
"Oliver Twist" by Chas. Dickens
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #405 on: November 01, 2012, 06:34:37 AM »
I am reading Gideon's Corpse by Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston.  Premise is really good but the story line has so many seriously implausable events that I just have to roll my eyes.  This is such a letdown after the genius that is their Pendergast series.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #406 on: November 01, 2012, 07:14:44 AM »
Quote from: mamacags on November 01, 2012, 06:34:37 AM
I am reading Gideon's Corpse by Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston.  Premise is really good but the story line has so many seriously implausable events that I just have to roll my eyes.  This is such a letdown after the genius that is their Pendergast series.

I love the Pendergast series!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #407 on: November 03, 2012, 09:26:37 AM »
"Little Billy's Letters" its about a guy who poses as an 8 year old boy and writes letters to random famous people. Like Charles Manson or Janet Reno and asks them strange questions. He asked Charles Manson if he should drop out of school and Charles Manson responded with this weird letter. Later he wrote to Janet Reno and asked her what she likes at Mc.Donalds. He also wrote to Dr.Kervokian and asked what it was like being a doctor and if he should be one. Wrote to Larry Flynt asking if there was Hustler for kids. Larry Flynt responded and told him to look to see if his Mother had a Sears catalog.

He plays the part really well too. Like he writes on that paper with the blue line, dotted line, and red line under it that kids use. He makes his hand writing look like a kid's. He'll misspell words on purpose like "Innernet"

A really funny book.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #408 on: November 04, 2012, 12:02:05 PM »
Quote from: ColonelCarrots on November 03, 2012, 09:26:37 AM
"Little Billy's Letters" its about a guy who poses as an 8 year old boy and writes letters to random famous people. Like Charles Manson or Janet Reno and asks them strange questions. He asked Charles Manson if he should drop out of school and Charles Manson responded with this weird letter. Later he wrote to Janet Reno and asked her what she likes at Mc.Donalds. He also wrote to Dr.Kervokian and asked what it was like being a doctor and if he should be one. Wrote to Larry Flynt asking if there was Hustler for kids. Larry Flynt responded and told him to look to see if his Mother had a Sears catalog.

He plays the part really well too. Like he writes on that paper with the blue line, dotted line, and red line under it that kids use. He makes his hand writing look like a kid's. He'll misspell words on purpose like "Innernet"

A really funny book.

Maybe that explains why I got a "Little Billy" joke the other day:

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Teacher asks the kids in class: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
 
Little Billy: "I wanna be a billionaire, go to the most expensive clubs I can find, buy a Ferrari worth a million bucks, get an apartment in Copacabana, a mansion in Paris , a jet to travel throughout Europe, an unlimited Visa Card and a bitch I can make love to three times a day".
 
The teacher was shocked, and not knowing what to do with the bad behavior of Little Billy, she decides not to give importance to what he said and so she continues the lesson . . . .  "
 
And you, Nancy?"
 
"I wanna be Little Billy's bitch!"
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #409 on: November 22, 2012, 10:12:04 AM »
Just finished Vince Flynn's new book -- "The Last Man"  If you're a fan of his writing you should read this one - got it the day it came out here, last Tuesday and read the first few pages off and on at work when I could.  Then typical Flynn writing, plots start coming together, so since yesterday and this morning I finished the last 3/4 of the book.  He has Mitch Rapp getting hurt in a attempt on his life, running all over Pakistan, the middle east, plus Washington.  Fingers of the plot hanging everywhere, until the end when he ties them altogether.
Now I have to wait another year for his next book --- :banghead:
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #410 on: November 22, 2012, 05:30:58 PM »
Quote from: zeitgeist on November 04, 2012, 12:02:05 PM
Maybe that explains why I got a "Little Billy" joke the other day:


 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #411 on: December 06, 2012, 06:10:56 AM »
Prior to reading Vince Flynn's new book - Have read 4 of the 5 books written by Tom Henderson, now finishing number five [ Afraid of the Dark] that I started before Flynn's book.  All of these take place in the area I grew up in Michigan.
Darker than Night - A Deadly Affair - Blood in the Snow - Blood Justice.  All are cold case crimes finally solved.  The first one took place near where I had a cabin up north. After graduating school, I worked with one of the material witnesses to the families demur, named in the book.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #412 on: December 06, 2012, 05:26:03 PM »
I just finished 14 by Peter Clines. Great little yarn.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #413 on: December 06, 2012, 05:59:01 PM »


An attack on the idiocies of Post-Modernism/Deconstructionism and the education system: I can also recommend Postman's The Disappearance of Childhood and Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk.  Although the latter are c. 30 + years old now, they are still quite relevant.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #414 on: December 06, 2012, 10:50:58 PM »
Just in time for the holidays, I've downloaded from Gutenberg Press a copy of Ben Hur: a Tale of the Christ.  Reads a whole lot differently than the movie portrayed it.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #415 on: December 08, 2012, 12:48:21 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on December 06, 2012, 10:50:58 PM
Just in time for the holidays, I've downloaded from Gutenberg Press a copy of Ben Hur: a Tale of the Christ.  Reads a whole lot differently than the movie portrayed it.

Yes, e.g. the original goes well beyond the crucifixion.  The movie originally had the subplot with the Roman woman, but the movie was already over 3 hours, so the whole section bit the dust.  Interestingly, the book published to promote the movie mentions the actress playing the role and the whole subplot.

Ben-Hur was made into a (wildly popular) stage play in the 19th century, and was performed into the 20th century.  It would be fascinating to find the script and see how much of the book was preserved in that version.

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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #416 on: December 19, 2012, 11:04:31 AM »
I recently finished Delusions in Death by J.D. Robb.  I really enjoyed it.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #417 on: December 19, 2012, 01:07:35 PM »
The Longest Silence, Thomas McGuane.

A bit preachy in spots, but a very good set of short stories on fly fishing.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #418 on: December 19, 2012, 01:12:28 PM »
"One Last Thing" by Peter Falk.  (Actually re-read it after several years).  Not high-brow, of course, just a bunch of stories from his life, written like he was sitting on the barstool next to you.  Fun. 

At the end of his life, he had terrible Alzheimers.  He couldn't remember playing Columbo.   :bawl:
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #419 on: December 19, 2012, 01:57:46 PM »
Quote from: Karin on December 19, 2012, 01:12:28 PM
"One Last Thing" by Peter Falk.  (Actually re-read it after several years).  Not high-brow, of course, just a bunch of stories from his life, written like he was sitting on the barstool next to you.  Fun. 

At the end of his life, he had terrible Alzheimers.  He couldn't remember playing Columbo.   :bawl:


Not to be morbid, but it kinda fits.......... :(
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #420 on: December 22, 2012, 05:51:01 PM »
Reading Fierce Invalids by Tom Robbins. I'm hooked but I don't know if I like it.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #421 on: December 24, 2012, 07:56:00 AM »
Just finished "The Life of Pi."  It was okay.  Interesting idea for a book.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #422 on: December 24, 2012, 09:00:20 AM »
Reading Dark Demon by Christine Feehan. I love her books!!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #423 on: December 24, 2012, 10:39:47 AM »
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Reading Dark Demon by Christine Feehan. I love her books!!

Yep, me too, she and Sherilyn Kenyon got me hooked on paranormal romances.  Do you enjoy any other authors in that genre?
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #424 on: December 26, 2012, 03:44:04 AM »
I got The Joy of Hate by Greg Gutfeld but haven't had time to read more than the introduction....  :(
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