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Offline Flame

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2009, 09:06:52 AM »
Quote from: Wayne on October 04, 2009, 05:54:35 AM
  "The Traffickers" by W.E.B. Griffin and his son William E. Butterworth 111.. A kind of interesting read in wikipedia..

I love W.E.B Griffen...the Presidential Agent series, and the OSS series are my favorites.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2009, 04:28:20 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 03, 2009, 09:48:22 PM
You read sermons too?

One of the best finds I ever found was a three-volume collection of sermons by a Methodist minister in northern Iowa circa 1890-1920.  I got all three of them for fifty cents, in a bargain bin at a used bookstore.
I hadn't before, but I now find them interesting.  Mr Smith's grandfather was a preacher, and we now have most of his library.  There are a ton of great books!  :-)  Many of them are fairly old, too...so not yet slanted by the liberal trend of some "christian" writers.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2009, 04:29:25 PM »
Quote from: Flame on October 03, 2009, 10:02:45 PM
The newest book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon...can't recall the title at the moment and I'm too lazy to go get the book... :tongue:.
I read the first 3 or 4 of them, really enjoyed them.  I'd forgotten all about that series...now I'll have to look it up again.   :cheersmate:
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2009, 06:12:58 PM »
Haven't read a new book in over 1....no ...2 years. Been rereading some of the old ones from school days. 14 year old son has to read a lot for English classes and I guess I'm just going into my second childhood. Right now he's reading War of the Worlds and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. I really enjoyed those when I read them....and the "old" movies when they were made. I don't think the remakes movies aren't near as good.

Right now I'm trying to convince him to check out Les' Miserables by Victor Hugo but just ain't having any luck with that....to many pages. :-)

Oh, 2 weeks ago he came home from WAL-MART all excited....he had spotted Michelle Malkins latest book, Culture of Corruption(?). He wanted it bad so at 5 am this morning I went to WAL-MART with the intention of buying it as a "bribe" gift to get him to read Victor Hugo...they were sold out (of course I was going to read it also...dang it). Spoke with his English teacher last week and she was quite alright with him reading "1984" and "Atlas Shrugged" so all is not lost.

Edit to add: WAL-MART had a bunch of Glen Becks latest book prominently displayed on the end of all the counters but I didn't buy one. And they had a bunch of Ted Kennedy's book down the isle on the bottom with dust on'em.  :-)

For once I used spell check and for 'on'em' spell checks first choice is "enema". :rotf: I guess you'd feel like you just had one if you read Teddy's book.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #29 on: October 04, 2009, 07:49:08 PM »
Read The Road about a year and a half ago. Very dark.....I wonder how they will do the movie. Seems like it would be appropriate to do it in black and white, or sepia tones at the very least.

Just finished Jonathan Kellerman's Compulsion....took half the book to get into it.

Prior to that read Vince Flynn's Extreme Measures.....I highly recommend it!!!!

Just started reading Mariah Stewart's Acts of Mercy.....the third in a series.

Next up is David Baldacci's Divine Justice.


Loved Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden....and also Cherry Ames. Read all of those back in elementary.

Les Miserables was required reading when I was in school....9th or 10th grade, I think.

I'm a fiction junkie.....murder, mayhem, psych thrillers.  :-)
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #30 on: October 05, 2009, 05:21:55 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 04, 2009, 07:53:36 AM
Any Bobbsey Twins?

I devoured those when I was a kid, even though they were like 75 years old by then.

As a kid MY grandparents had belonged to a book club back in the 1930-60 eras and I searched their attic for the 3 books in one that Readers Digest put out then.

I loved the old Thin Man series and the other perhaps 5 other detective couples set pre WW2 and just after.  Today on the Classic Chanel it is a delight to watch these storeys filmed back then, the clothing, the attitudes of the day.

Buck Rogers and Flash Gorden, the small magazines of Alfred Hitchcock presents, short storeys that came out every month.  Science Fiction the way most of our most brilliant writers got their start, Issac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Pol Anderson.

As an adult I was introduced to Louis Lamore, what westerns ?  If that is all there is to read I will do so.

To this day when traveling about the south west I have on hand a couple of his books written about the area we are in. His research was so accurate that it becomes a mystery hunt to find the areas he writes about and ask some what intelligent questions of the people that live there now.

Sometime in the future I wish to visit a bed and breakfast in Mass. that was the home of Lizzie Borden.  There are many questions left unanswered about her sister and the fathers business partner who was run off and charges were to be placed against him.

BTW, I read THE GRAY LADY, true story about our last British Governor run out of town, Governor Wentworth.  His home still stands and is now part of a nursing home. The original wall paper is still on the walls, bullet holes over the fireplace mantel and hoof prints from the horses being road into the home by those darn  river rats of town.

I know this because I worked a summer 11-7 shift, had plenty of time to roam about wondering about all the storeys of patients being awakened by a ghost in top hat and tails.

I think the ghost was on vacation that year as I never saw him, or his wife that some thought had poisoned her first husband in order to marry him.

Sorry for flight of ideas, one thing leads to another.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #31 on: October 05, 2009, 08:11:42 AM »
Quote from: vesta111 on October 05, 2009, 05:21:55 AM
As a kid MY grandparents had belonged to a book club back in the 1930-60 eras and I searched their attic for the 3 books in one that Readers Digest put out then.



My parents belonged to the Reader's Digest Book Club too.....used to read those books cover to cover when they came!!
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #32 on: October 05, 2009, 08:33:39 AM »
Quote from: debk on October 05, 2009, 08:11:42 AM
My parents belonged to the Reader's Digest Book Club too.....used to read those books cover to cover when they came!!

I found a box of those years ago and I read them all. I don't where I lost them at.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #33 on: October 05, 2009, 09:12:54 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on October 04, 2009, 06:12:58 PM
Haven't read a new book in over 1....no ...2 years. Been rereading some of the old ones from school days. 14 year old son has to read a lot for English classes and I guess I'm just going into my second childhood. Right now he's reading War of the Worlds and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. I really enjoyed those when I read them....and the "old" movies when they were made. I don't think the remakes movies aren't near as good.

Right now I'm trying to convince him to check out Les' Miserables by Victor Hugo but just ain't having any luck with that....to many pages. :-)


Last year, my daughter (then 11 years old) misunderstood the instructions for choosing your Advanced Reader points, so chose 100.  The rest of the class chose 15 or 20, which was several books.  When she was down to the last 2 weeks of the 9 weeks, she only had 30+ points.  She checked out Les Miserables (worth something like 95 points), read it, enjoyed it, and passed her test.  

But I suppose it would be too hard for a 14 year old boy...   :evillaugh:


(Let me know if this changes his mind, Reb.)  :-)
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #34 on: October 06, 2009, 11:04:19 AM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on October 05, 2009, 09:12:54 PM
Last year, my daughter (then 11 years old) misunderstood the instructions for choosing your Advanced Reader points, so chose 100.  The rest of the class chose 15 or 20, which was several books.  When she was down to the last 2 weeks of the 9 weeks, she only had 30+ points.  She checked out Les Miserables (worth something like 95 points), read it, enjoyed it, and passed her test.  

But I suppose it would be too hard for a 14 year old boy...   :evillaugh:


(Let me know if this changes his mind, Reb.)  :-)

Gone With The Wind is worth like 80 points.  My daughter is going to read this one this year and kill off all of her points with one book.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #35 on: October 06, 2009, 12:27:14 PM »
Parallel Lives ~Plutarch...still.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #36 on: October 06, 2009, 04:49:08 PM »
I stopped by the library today and picked up some light reading... bug: The Strange Mutations of the World's Most Famous Automobile and Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do. 
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #37 on: October 09, 2009, 08:31:01 PM »
I just ordered this... http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Found-American-Chiefdom-Connected/dp/0312378793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255138162&sr=8-1 
 A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All (Hardcover)
Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry.  Though raised in a loving family, Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up. In 2004, she hired a private investigator to track down her biological father.  When she began her search, she never imagined what she would discover or where that information would lead her: she was related to African royalty, a ruling Mende family in Sierra Leone and that she is considered a mahaloi, the child of a Paramount Chief, with the status like a princess.  What followed was an unforgettably emotional journey of discovery of herself, a father she never knew, and the spirit of a war-torn nation.  A Princess Found is a powerful, intimate revelation of her quest across the world to learn of the chiefdom she could one day call her own.



I used to babysit her when she was little.  She was a really cool kid and her family is awesome.  Her story is amazing!
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #38 on: October 12, 2009, 04:47:23 PM »
I've been reading the Stephanie Plumb series. My wife loves them (she's a Ranger girl). As a guy, they're OK, but not great.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #39 on: October 12, 2009, 05:26:15 PM »
Just finished Atlas Shrugged and started on What You Have Left.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #40 on: October 13, 2009, 12:14:38 AM »
James Patterson's Cross Country
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« Reply #41 on: October 13, 2009, 01:44:15 AM »
Still waiting for one of you imps, I mean swell people to send me a free book.  :p
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #42 on: October 13, 2009, 01:37:42 PM »
Quote from: debk on October 13, 2009, 12:14:38 AM
James Patterson's Cross Country

I finished Alex Cross's Trial this morning.  It was seriously freaking awesome!  It is about an ancestor of Alex Cross, and a huge trial.  The story is set in a Klan run town in Mississippi in 1906 (I think).  The story is mostly about the white lawyer that takes on the white racists in the town. 

I am out of books right now so I have to go to the library and get some more this afternoon.  I still have Atlas Shrugged sitting there but for the life of me I can't start it. :bawl:
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #43 on: October 13, 2009, 01:48:19 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 13, 2009, 01:37:42 PM
I finished Alex Cross's Trial this morning.  It was seriously freaking awesome!  It is about an ancestor of Alex Cross, and a huge trial.  The story is set in a Klan run town in Mississippi in 1906 (I think).  The story is mostly about the white lawyer that takes on the white racists in the town. 

I am out of books right now so I have to go to the library and get some more this afternoon.  I still have Atlas Shrugged sitting there but for the life of me I can't start it. :bawl:

You really should.  It was a very rewarding read and more than once I was forced to stop reading and simply say, "wow."
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #44 on: October 13, 2009, 02:41:10 PM »
It took me a bit to get started with that book.  You just have to jump into it. 

I need something new to read.  I'm already bored.
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« Reply #45 on: October 14, 2009, 12:03:02 AM »
Quote from: Chris on October 13, 2009, 02:41:10 PM
It took me a bit to get started with that book.  You just have to jump into it. 

I need something new to read.  I'm already bored.

Read Vince Flynn's Extreme Measures...it's in paperback.

It's fiction, but it's about a CIA agent using torture to get intel to prevent an attack on US soil and those who want to arrent the agent for his "criminal behavior". I couldn't put it down, even when it was sending my blood pressure skyrocketing...
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« Reply #46 on: October 14, 2009, 12:45:43 AM »
Quote from: debk on October 14, 2009, 12:03:02 AM
Read Vince Flynn's Extreme Measures...it's in paperback.

It's fiction, but it's about a CIA agent using torture to get intel to prevent an attack on US soil and those who want to arrent the agent for his "criminal behavior". I couldn't put it down, even when it was sending my blood pressure skyrocketing...

Since no other CC member has expressed an interest in mailing me their old, used, worn out books...  :bawl: ... I decided to reread HANNIBAL.
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« Reply #47 on: October 14, 2009, 04:51:32 AM »
    ROUGH COUNTRY by John Sanford
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« Reply #48 on: October 14, 2009, 12:29:43 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 13, 2009, 01:37:42 PM
I finished Alex Cross's Trial this morning.  It was seriously freaking awesome!  It is about an ancestor of Alex Cross, and a huge trial.  The story is set in a Klan run town in Mississippi in 1906 (I think).  The story is mostly about the white lawyer that takes on the white racists in the town. 
Are you high? That book was nothing but bait and switch! It should have been called: Using the Name Alex Cross to sell a book by a minor, unknown author who rented Patterson's name and several characters.
I don't hold it against Patterson, I wish I could rent my name out.
Anyone who wants to rent my name should email me to discuss terms and rates
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« Reply #49 on: October 14, 2009, 06:30:15 PM »
My son is reading "The Time Machine" for school....I read it 45 years ago and enjoyed it. So yesterday I reread it, took about 3 hours of reading and hanging up on health insurance telemarketers....sheeesh. Anyway this time I noticed he mentioned the evils of communism....twice. Then I noticed that the Eloi and the Morlocks were referred to as having maybe been at one time the "Haves" and the "Have-Nots".

I guess it just took 45 years to learn to finally "read between the lines"..... :rotf:
or to at least catch a few obvious things as I read.
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