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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #100 on: October 28, 2010, 05:47:18 PM »
Storm of Steel, by Ernst Jünger.  Autobiographical narrative of a WWI German soldier (commissioned during the War) on the Western Front.  Astounding stuff.  The guy had balls of steel, was very highly-decorated as well as wounded many, many times, and became a well-known author after the War.  He finally died of old age in the 1990s. 
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #101 on: October 28, 2010, 06:25:43 PM »
When I was a child, I read as many of the classics as I could lay my hands on.  Not sure why; although I sorta understood even the grown up words, with the help of a dictionary, I never did cotton to Shakespeare or Homer.
Since high school, I've fallen back on lowbrow books, but I love them anyhow and don't feel apologetic about reading them at all.  I read at least one book a day, unless I'm babysitting my grandson (6 months out of the year, alternating months) in which case I stick to magazines or short stories.
So, I also can't just work on one book at a time.  Am finishing up, tonight, three books:

Mercury's War by Lora Leigh
An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich

Guys won't want to read these. :evillaugh:




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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #102 on: October 28, 2010, 07:26:07 PM »
Quote from: Boudicca on October 28, 2010, 06:25:43 PM
Finger Lickin' Fifteen
I think I rented that movie once. :p
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #103 on: October 28, 2010, 07:28:34 PM »
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #104 on: October 28, 2010, 07:28:44 PM »
I picked up 'Secrets: A memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers' by Daniel Ellsberg at the library on a spur of the moment decision.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #105 on: October 28, 2010, 07:29:36 PM »
Quote from: ColonialMarine0431 on October 28, 2010, 07:28:34 PM
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
My PBS station just ran a show on that.  They interviewed Read and a few of the survivors... it was amazing.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #106 on: October 28, 2010, 07:41:02 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on October 28, 2010, 07:29:36 PM
My PBS station just ran a show on that.  They interviewed Read and a few of the survivors... it was amazing.

History Channel recently ran a documentary on it called I Am Alive: Surviving The Andes Plane Crash . It prompted me to go the library and check out Read's book. I read once it a long time ago. What you saw on PBS was most likely the same one I saw on History Channel.  :cheersmate:
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #107 on: October 28, 2010, 07:44:24 PM »
You're right... it was History. :thatsright:

We get a lot of their stuff, so they're easy to mix up sometimes.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #108 on: October 28, 2010, 09:40:21 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on October 28, 2010, 07:26:07 PM
I think I rented that movie once. :p

Hmm. :lmao:
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #109 on: October 29, 2010, 08:59:15 AM »
Quote from: chris_ on October 28, 2010, 07:28:44 PM
I picked up 'Secrets: A memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers' by Daniel Ellsberg at the library on a spur of the moment decision.

I read that some years ago. Ellsberg, while a pompous ass and an egomaniac, had the courage of his convictions. He served as a Marine officer in the late Fifties, got out, but went to Vietnam in the mid-Sixties to see what it was all about.

I remember that he was with the Rand Corporation when he decided to blow the whistle. Just about singlehandedly, he did more to destroy the military than any communist spy did during the same period. Just another example of unintended consequences, but Ellsberg is, without question, a liberal moonbat loon.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #110 on: October 31, 2010, 09:35:09 PM »
That book is unreadable.  I guess I should find an actual copy of 'The Pentagon Papers' because all I'm seeing are accusations with no photographic or documented proof to support any of his claims.  Maybe it's there, but I just don't feel like going through the effort of checking footnotes every other page (if there were any in this book -- there aren't.) Either way, I gave up because I kept falling asleep.

I picked up a copy of 'Polk's Folly', a biography of the Polk family as a replacement.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #111 on: November 03, 2010, 12:20:00 AM »
I'm 90% through Vince Flynn's new book American Assassin.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #112 on: November 03, 2010, 11:34:56 AM »
Quote from: Big Don on November 03, 2010, 12:20:00 AM
I'm 90% through Vince Flynn's new book American Assassin.

Is it good? I've read all his books....I really like them!!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #113 on: November 03, 2010, 11:57:04 AM »
The Twelfth Imam by Joel Rosenberg.

I'm about halfway through the audio version and so far, so good.

From the reviews, I understand it just ends abruptly but for right now I am hooked.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #114 on: November 03, 2010, 12:09:37 PM »
Book-frickin-13 of the Wheel of Time series.

Robert Jordan is dead, but Brandon Sanderson  has done a good job bringing the series to a foreseeable conclusion. One more book to go!

Oi. I've been with this series for close to 20 years.

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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #115 on: November 04, 2010, 12:13:28 AM »
Quote from: debk on November 03, 2010, 11:34:56 AM
Is it good? I've read all his books....I really like them!!
I really liked it but, now I am conflicted.
I don't know whether to hope his next is a follow up to this (the Mitch Rapp origin story) or where Pursuit of Honor left off
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #116 on: November 04, 2010, 03:44:37 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on November 03, 2010, 12:09:37 PM
Book-frickin-13 of the Wheel of Time series.

Robert Jordan is dead, but Brandon Sanderson  has done a good job bringing the series to a foreseeable conclusion. One more book to go!

Oi. I've been with this series for close to 20 years.



Nice. I'll have to amazon me one of them given the truly glacial stocking procedures at the local bookshops.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #117 on: November 04, 2010, 02:11:20 PM »
Got Vince Flynn last book - American Assassin - but haven't started it yet.  Just finishing one of the earlier ones, started with one in the middle 'Act of Treason', then found out about the rest.  Finished to #10-then started 1-6 [Consent to Kill is the one I'm finishing].  Next, American Assassin, and that will finish the series - at least until he does the next one. 
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #118 on: November 08, 2010, 12:31:02 AM »
Quote from: rustybayonet on November 04, 2010, 02:11:20 PM
Got Vince Flynn last book - American Assassin - but haven't started it yet.  Just finishing one of the earlier ones, started with one in the middle 'Act of Treason', then found out about the rest.  Finished to #10-then started 1-6 [Consent to Kill is the one I'm finishing].  Next, American Assassin, and that will finish the series - at least until he does the next one. 
American Assassin actually, kinda, well, starts the series...
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #119 on: November 11, 2010, 09:19:10 AM »
I zipped through Lee Child's new Reacher novel, "Worth Dying For" (loved it) and I'm re-reading a favorite "cozy" mystery "Death on Demand".  After watching Lauer's interview and listening to Limbaugh's interview, I'm wanting to get Bush's "Decision Points".
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #120 on: November 11, 2010, 11:22:40 AM »
I just finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter and started The Bourne Identity.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #121 on: November 11, 2010, 06:20:09 PM »
Just started The Bone Thief last night.  It is so good I should finish it tonight!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #122 on: November 11, 2010, 09:07:14 PM »
The Overton Window.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #123 on: November 12, 2010, 01:12:10 PM »
Quote from: ExGeeEye on November 11, 2010, 09:07:14 PM
The Overton Window.

I read it am I am still not sure if I liked it or not.  It was a good plot but the writing was pretty bad in my opinion.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #124 on: November 12, 2010, 03:38:43 PM »
Just finished James Patterson's Worst Case. Wow.

Wonder how long it will be before there really is someone like the "bad guy" out there?
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