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Offline Chris_

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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #25 on: September 22, 2008, 01:04:45 PM »
Quote from: Chris on September 20, 2008, 11:29:43 PM
Anyone reading anything or waiting for new books?

I'm finishing up reading Vol. 1 of Bill Bennett's America: The Last Best Hope  (Right now I've finished up reading Ulysses S. Grant's administration, and the descent into mediocrity as Rutherford B. Hayes took over.  Vol. 1 ends in 1914.)

Afterwards, I've got Vol. 2 on standby, as well as a very thorough biography of Porter Rockwell, by Richard Dewey.
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #26 on: September 22, 2008, 02:23:44 PM »
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Quote from: mamacags on September 22, 2008, 12:04:14 PM
I usually love Patricia Cornwell stories but she is another one who just started inserting crap about politics into everything. :thatsright:

I've noticed that....there are a couple of others that i can't immediately recall that have gotten very political......I just cross them off my list.

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It's not just that she's gotten political in her books (and it even annoys me), but her last few books just sucked.  I've given up reading her anymore. 
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #27 on: September 22, 2008, 02:34:40 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on September 22, 2008, 02:23:44 PM
Quote from: TVDOC on September 22, 2008, 12:08:03 PM
Quote from: mamacags on September 22, 2008, 12:04:14 PM
I usually love Patricia Cornwell stories but she is another one who just started inserting crap about politics into everything. :thatsright:

I've noticed that....there are a couple of others that i can't immediately recall that have gotten very political......I just cross them off my list.

doc

It's not just that she's gotten political in her books (and it even annoys me), but her last few books just sucked.  I've given up reading her anymore. 
I don't know what happened to her, perhaps the fame went to her head. One minute she was writing good thrillers, the next minute she went batshit crazy and her plots ran wild.
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #28 on: September 22, 2008, 02:47:20 PM »
Quote from: bijou on September 22, 2008, 02:34:40 PM
Quote from: Miss Mia on September 22, 2008, 02:23:44 PM
Quote from: TVDOC on September 22, 2008, 12:08:03 PM
Quote from: mamacags on September 22, 2008, 12:04:14 PM
I usually love Patricia Cornwell stories but she is another one who just started inserting crap about politics into everything. :thatsright:

I've noticed that....there are a couple of others that i can't immediately recall that have gotten very political......I just cross them off my list.

doc

It's not just that she's gotten political in her books (and it even annoys me), but her last few books just sucked.  I've given up reading her anymore. 
I don't know what happened to her, perhaps the fame went to her head. One minute she was writing good thrillers, the next minute she went batshit crazy and her plots ran wild.

Its what I refer to as the "Tom Clancy" effect.......they write half a dozen great books, make a ton of money, and then they either produce crap, or quit trying altogether, and buy a football team......

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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #29 on: September 22, 2008, 03:16:16 PM »
I think most of it started when she got busted in that lesbian love triangle leading to a nasty divorce trial for her special friend.
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Cornwell declined for many years to discuss her personal life in interviews, but on November 11, 2007, The Daily Telegraph published an interview focused largely on her history and identity as a lesbian, including her marriage to Dr. Staci Ann Gruber. In an April 2008 interview on how Cornwell's life has influenced her writing, in The Times, Cornwell's marriage to Gruber in Massachusetts was also discussed.

Cornwell's personal life was also in the news in 1996, when former FBI agent Eugene Bennett cited her affair with his wife, Marguerite Bennett, as the motivation for a plot to kidnap and murder his estranged spouse. On May 15, 1997, Eugene Bennett was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a court in Prince William County, Virginia for his role in the plan.

Cornwell's friendship and affair with Marguerite "Margo" Bennett was detailed in the book: "Twisted Triangle: A Famous Crime Writer, A Lesbian Love Affair and the FBI Husband's Violent Revenge", written by Caitlin Rother with John Hess, released in May 2008 by Wiley. The book tells Margo Bennett's story of struggle, survival and triumph over her husband's abuse and her inner battle over her own sexuality. Gene Bennett kidnapped and then later tried to kill Margo after the Cornwell affair, which prompted the dissolution of the Bennetts' marriage.
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #30 on: September 22, 2008, 05:35:22 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on September 22, 2008, 01:04:45 PM
Right now I've finished up reading Ulysses S. Grant's administration, and the descent into mediocrity as Rutherford B. Hayes took over.  Vol. 1 ends in 1914.

Now THAT looks like something I would enjoy.  Do you have a title?  :p
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #31 on: September 22, 2008, 11:50:48 PM »
I have a stack of books I am reading for a national certification test.  :censored:
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #32 on: September 23, 2008, 09:26:15 AM »
Quote from: Chris on September 22, 2008, 05:35:22 PM
Quote from: DefiantSix on September 22, 2008, 01:04:45 PM
Right now I've finished up reading Ulysses S. Grant's administration, and the descent into mediocrity as Rutherford B. Hayes took over.  Vol. 1 ends in 1914.

Now THAT looks like something I would enjoy.  Do you have a title?  :p

Volume 1 of America: The Last Best Hope by William Bennett.  Probably one of the best treatices of American history - and history you don't read about in public schools any more - I've ever read.
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #33 on: September 23, 2008, 10:25:55 AM »
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #34 on: September 23, 2008, 10:28:29 AM »
Mama...sounds like we're reading a lot of the same books!

I'm reading Karin Slaughter's "Beyond Reach" right now.

I pick up the books, and we may both read them, or not. I picked up Patricia Cornwell's "Book of the Dead", M read it and said it sucked....and he used to really like her books, but hasn't liked the last couple. I haven't read it, but if she doesn't change her writing....I'm not reading them any more either.

I like the Vince Flynn books.

Lisa Gardner, Lisa Jackson are good, too. And we both read John Sandford.

Reading for me is escape and relaxation...so I'm a fiction junkie. :-)
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #35 on: September 23, 2008, 12:10:01 PM »
Quote from: debk on September 23, 2008, 10:28:29 AM
Mama...sounds like we're reading a lot of the same books!

I'm reading Karin Slaughter's "Beyond Reach" right now.

I pick up the books, and we may both read them, or not. I picked up Patricia Cornwell's "Book of the Dead", M read it and said it sucked....and he used to really like her books, but hasn't liked the last couple. I haven't read it, but if she doesn't change her writing....I'm not reading them any more either.

I like the Vince Flynn books.

Lisa Gardner, Lisa Jackson are good, too. And we both read John Sandford.

Reading for me is escape and relaxation...so I'm a fiction junkie. :-)

YAY!!!!!! Two new authors in that list for me to read!   :cheersmate:
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #36 on: September 24, 2008, 08:50:04 PM »
I finally got around to checking out "The Mothman Prophecies".  I picked up "Consider the Lobster" as well.  Looks like I beat the macabre post-death book rush at the library.
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #37 on: October 08, 2008, 09:48:49 PM »
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

It's pretty much an all-out attempt at chronologically piecing together the life of Meriwether Lewis. A very good nonfiction read.
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #38 on: October 08, 2008, 11:01:37 PM »
Currently reading "Protect and Defend" by Vince Flynn.

Takes place in Iraq and Iran....with a storyline that could too easily be true.

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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #39 on: October 08, 2008, 11:23:21 PM »
I needed 20ccs of silly after my last few political and or history books. Just got two "new" books that I read years and years ago when I borrowed them from my brother. If you were/are a fan of Douglas Adams of 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' fame, then I highly recommend his two detective novels.

- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Both are a lot (a serious lot) of fun.  :-)
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #40 on: October 09, 2008, 05:51:28 PM »
Two of my books showed up at the liberry (China Marine, Oblivion).

I didn't realize First Blood was based on a novel.  I picked that up as well (the book, not the Stallone movie.  I already have that on DVD).
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #41 on: October 09, 2008, 06:32:09 PM »
Finished Protect and Defend....very good read....
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #42 on: October 11, 2008, 07:07:06 PM »
Finished First Blood.  Better than the movie -- lots of extra detail, but the end was different.  I coulnd't keep myself from picturing Dennehey and Stallone through the entire book which did not fit with the way it was written, and Hollywood decided to move the location more than halfway across the country from Kentucky to Washington.
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #43 on: October 12, 2008, 05:48:37 PM »
Quote from: Chris on October 11, 2008, 07:07:06 PM
Finished First Blood.  Better than the movie -- lots of extra detail, but the end was different.  I coulnd't keep myself from picturing Dennehey and Stallone through the entire book which did not fit with the way it was written, and Hollywood decided to move the location more than halfway across the country from Kentucky to Washington.


If they'd left it in KY, people would have been humming the tune from Deliverance.... :uhsure:
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Re: Fall Book Thread
« Reply #44 on: October 13, 2008, 12:12:15 AM »
I just finished The Closers by Michael Connelly.

It was not quite as good as The Lincoln Lawyer, by the same author, but it was still a good book.
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