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George_J
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Liz, Ellen and I are habitual readers. Are you?
I was wondering whether we might start a thread here about recommended books and what we are reading now--don't know about you, but I'm always looking for something new and interesting.
Right now, I'm reading a couple of non-fiction books:
"Cliffs of Despair--A Journey to the Edge" by Tom Hunt. It's about Beachy Head in Sussex--a place where a disproportionate number of people have committed suicide by jumping off cliffs over the years. An eerie, disturbing read.
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"Brutal Journey--The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America" by Paul Schneider. It's about the travels and hardships of a group of 400 Spaniards, the Navarez Expedition, who set off into the northern unknown in 1528 from Tampa Bay. Years later, only three emerged. The rest died en route, after descending into a nightmare of hardship. Well written, and interesting.
What say you?
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I'm reading Trinity.
Still on page 6 after 13 1/2 years .
Seriously, I'm reading "Black Mass" by Lehr & O'Neill
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #2 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 7:27pm » |
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I love to read, but I'm sure you guys wouldn't be interested in the books that I read. I'd need to talk to some of the ladies, it's more their speed.
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #3 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 7:37pm » |
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Naw, it's wide open, Kimmie. As far as I'm concerned, it's for everyone to get recommendations, not just particular genres.
Go for it.
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George
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Ah! The foreigners put on such airs
Wearing the tangerine suits
And their harlequin eyes.
The pain they inspire
Draws in harmonica melodies
And the feathers of birds
Which flame up at their touch.
It all comes to light in the sheer
Debonair.
(Ellen)
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #4 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 8:33pm » |
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Just finished Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. Before that it was the Jack Ryan books by Tom Clancey. There hasn't really been anything that tripped my trigger that is new, so I was rereading those this summer.
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #5 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 8:35pm » |
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Been re-readin Confederacy of Dunces. LMAO!!!! AGAIN!!!!
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #6 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 8:40pm » |
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on Aug 17th, 2006, 6:50pm, georgej wrote:| Liz, Ellen and I are habitual readers. Are you? |
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Your kidding me right?
I cant stand to even preview my own post before I post them.....LOL 
Thats why I keep them short and to the point 
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It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
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Quote:| I cant stand to even preview my own post |
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Preview? There is a preview button?
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #8 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 8:55pm » |
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I'm getting like Jonny.
I like to read history but since the internet and porn   I spend time reading and researching for stupid ebay. I have books by my chair of which I read a page a day....maybe. Sad really. Now and then I'll reread old paperbacks. It's incredible the stupid crap I was into. 
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I go in cycles between science journals (AJP cell, Science), and fiction. I like Dean Koontz (the man is a warped person) Clive Cussler. M Crichton. Basically brain candy.
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #10 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 9:11pm » |
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on Aug 17th, 2006, 8:40pm, Jonny wrote:I cant stand to even preview my own post before I post them.....LOL
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on Aug 17th, 2006, 8:49pm, chewy wrote:| Preview? There is a preview button? |
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I might as well just put "modified" in my tagline or include decoder rings to read my first posted reply.
I read boring stuff, so then even crossing out the day on my calender is a distracting highlight.
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #11 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 9:42pm » |
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My reading would bore the masses. I like phylosophy and Shakespere
edit to add don't mind my spelling I'm having a bad head day.
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #12 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 9:54pm » |
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on Aug 17th, 2006, 9:42pm, alchemy wrote:| My reading would bore the masses. I like phylosophy and Shakespere |
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LMAO....more like Penthouse and bikes-r-us.....LOL
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Or the Home Depot weekly flyer.
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #14 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 10:06pm » |
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alright all you doubters
O pardon me thou bleeding piece of earth that I am meek and gentle with these butchers for thou art the ruins of the noblest man who ever lived in the tide of time. woah to the hand that shed this costly blood over thy wounds do I prophise.
Shakespere Marc Antonies soliloqy after Ceaser is slain.
Ps. I read Penthouse for the articles.
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #15 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 10:11pm » |
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LMAO....Google Shakespere and you can come up with all kinds of quotes.....LOL
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It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #16 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 10:13pm » |
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Google my ass Senor I remember that from school.
perhaps the only thing I rember
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Drill bittions on salus this weekth not next. Fans of the cielingus oh what a widus selection. Thy tool binus with much wideth selection. Coverings of yon floors from linolius to Italian tilus. And Paint. $7.99 a gallon.
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Re: Readers?
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Quote:| Drill bittions on salus this weekth not next. Fans of the cielingus oh what a widus selection. Thy tool binus with much wideth selection. Coverings of yon floors from linolius to Italian tilus. And Paint. $7.99 a gallon |
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #19 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 10:20pm » |
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When I can read, I read my old Anne McCaffrey and new J.D. Robb girlie science fiction books. When I can't read, I look at my watercolor books with lots of pictures and long for the days I could concentrate.
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« Reply #20 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 11:26pm » |
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I'm illiterate...
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #21 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 11:39pm » |
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on Aug 17th, 2006, 10:16pm, chewy wrote:| Drill bittions on salus this weekth not next. Fans of the cielingus oh what a widus selection. Thy tool binus with much wideth selection. Coverings of yon floors from linolius to Italian tilus. And Paint. $7.99 a gallon. |
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #22 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 11:48pm » |
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on Aug 17th, 2006, 8:35pm, kimh wrote:| Been re-readin Confederacy of Dunces. LMAO!!!! AGAIN!!!! |
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I like that one too. Old Ignatius P. Reilly and his d*mned pyloric valve. LOL.
I've got a copy of John Kennedy Toole's other, earlier (unpublished until years later) book "The Neon Bible" around here somewhere. Don't like it nearly as well.
Liz is from Nawlins, so "Confederacy" has particular significance with us.
LMAO about the ads from the Home D. I like 'em too. Some of it is fiction, though--particularly the part about "You can do it." I've found that to be science fiction, as a matter of fact.
Shakespeare? Hm. "Now Faustus art thou damned...." Wait a sec'--that's Marlowe. "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York..."
Go ahead and shoot me, but I love that stuff too.
on Aug 17th, 2006, 8:40pm, Jonny wrote:
Thats why I keep them short and to the point
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Wouldn't have it any other way.
George
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Ah! The foreigners put on such airs
Wearing the tangerine suits
And their harlequin eyes.
The pain they inspire
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And the feathers of birds
Which flame up at their touch.
It all comes to light in the sheer
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #23 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 11:51pm » |
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I forgot the obvious. I read you.
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Re: Readers?
« Reply #24 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 11:58pm » |
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Anyone ever read anything by David Martin? "Tap Tap" "Lie to me"???
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