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My own book :D Had a few hard copies printed up the other day. Working with a publisher now on getting soft covers printed.

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Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane is one of my all time fav's. ;)

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After reading a history of WWI, it was time for a little fiction. I'm a mystery fan and a very helpful lady at Borders suggested The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson. Not one of my regular authors, never heard of him but what the heck, I was in the mood for something different.

Started it this morning with a pot of coffee and a nice Trini Coloniales. All of the Swedish names and locations was a little unusual. Interesting characters and after 80 pages I'm hooked. I'm eager to see where this thing goes.

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One of the best books I read this year. We are reading it for our Mystery Book club in September. His next book comes out this week. What a shame we only have three from this brilliant writer.

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Started A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane. I am not usually a fan of 1st person narration so we will see if he pulls it off.

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Same thing the lady at Borders said.

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I'm on a Chuck Klosterman kick lately and started "Killing Yourself to Live" today.

Also got "The Guns of August" by Barbara W. Tuchman but haven't started it yet.

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Church History In Plain Language by Bruce L. Shelley

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Awesome!:tu

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A Drink Before the War was an excellent book for a first book in series. even better was the second Kenzie Gennaro book, Darkness Take My Hand. It was a great book. I can't wait to start the third book Sacred. First I have a library book to read. The State of Jones by Jenkins and Stauffer. A true account of a Mississippi man who was a Union sympathizer in the Civil War and his county that did not secede from the Union but formed its own state. Of course, the Confederacy disagreed with him.

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Down the River, Edward Abbey

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A Well Regulated Militia... by John J. Carpenter.

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The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstien

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Just started The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam. Have always been a Halberstam fan and this was his last book before he was killed. Was never reeally a student of the Korean War and couldn't think of anyone who could tell the story as well as him. This one has been on my list for a while.

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I am reading his book The Fifties-very good, well researched. A bit more about the Cold War than I wanted to read, though. I am sure something else was going on besides that-but I am only half way through it.

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Ben Hogan's Five Lessons - The Modern Fundamentals of Golf.

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Today I start Sacred by Dennis Lehane.

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I have been reading the entire Daniel Silva series this summer, right now I am reading The Messenger

Have read this summer so far:
The Kill Artist
The English Assassin
The Marching Season
The Confessor
A Death in Vienna
Prince of Fire
Moscow Rules

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"The Gift of Fear" by Gavin DeBecker

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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - Stephen King

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Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

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Some of you avid readers may find this pass interesting.

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19634

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Halberstam definitely has a political point of view. I think he overplays it and I'm not sure that I agree with his political premise in the first place. I'm nearly 300 pages into The Coldest Winter and he really hasn't written much about the war. But, I've read plenty about how MacArthur was a dork and Dean Acheson was the savior of the free world.

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I have a couple books going simultaneously:

Glenn Beck's Common Sense, inspired by Thomas Paine (a quick read)
The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castenada (never read Castenada before, decided to start this a few weeks ago at the beach)
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear (seriously complex scifi)

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Just finished The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. Classic noir.

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Castenada was a bit of a fraud, but this is an interesting read (the best I recall from decades in the past). I have heard - nota bene - I have heard, this is even a better read if the reader's also on peyote. :r

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The Case for Christianity - CS Lewis

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Finished Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane. Last of the Kenzie/Gennaro series. Now I guess I read Shutter Island. He needs to write faster...lol

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Star Trek: Enterprise The First Mission

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Cool cigar mention in My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, en iTouch...

“So the guy bought a case of expensive cigars,” he says, “and had them insured against fire for $15,000. Next thing you know, the insurance company gets a claim, saying all the cigars were lost in a series of small fires.”

“He smoked them?” I say, washing the soap out of Jesse’s hair.
Brian leans against the threshold of the door.

“Yeah. But the judge ruled that the company guaranteed the cigars as insurable against fire, without defining acceptable fire.”…

"So who subpoenaed you?” I ask Brian. “The defendant?”

“The prosecution. The insurance company paid out the money, and then had him arrested for twenty-four counts of arson.”…

“The judge threw out the case, right?”

“The judge sentenced him to twenty-four consecutive one-year terms,” Brian says.

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And someone else we know needs to git her ownsef' busy and write the second installment in her detective series! :r

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Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends by William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron.

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When was that published, honey? Reason I ask, that apocryphal old story has beer circulating around cigar BBs for years, and I wonder if Jodi started it or swiped it. :r

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This book has a copyright date of 2004. And yeah, I've heard the same "series of small fires" thing a few times as well.

My guess is Picoult is not as familiar with cigars and the story as we are. Still a cool find. :ss

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Tks for the quick reply. :tu

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and what else are you reading??

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Just finished "Protect and Defend" by Vince Flynn.

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Just started Term Limits by Vince Flynn
I'm at the shack herf...what could be better?
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I'm reading Brave New World by Huxley... great book so far.



Has anyone read "The House of Cards" (about the wall street collapse?)

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how is this one?

I'm currently reading Band of Brothers

Haven't read it but I want to
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Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille

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Just started Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It was time for fiction and I've wanted to read this for a long time. Avoided it until now because it seemed a major commitment ... 1000+ pages ... sort of like staring down the barrel of War and Peace.

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"Somebody's Got to Say it..."
by Neal Boortz

Fascinating read.

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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz.

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Lisey's Story by Stephen King.

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"The Spartans: The World of The Warrior-Heroes Of Ancient Greece" By Paul Cartledge
I've read many books on ancient Greece, but this one is about to top my list!! :tu

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The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel and A bold fresh piece of humanity by Bill O'Reilly

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Patriots by James Wesley Rawles

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Finished confederates in the Attic by Horwitz-great book. Now i am reading the first book of the Dresden Files by Butcher.