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Old 10-21-2008, 08:46 AM   #61
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

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Talking of Michelangelo."
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Old 10-21-2008, 08:52 AM   #62
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The Limits of Power by Andrew J. Bacevich.

Great read so far, very constructive criticism of today's America.
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Old 10-21-2008, 09:52 AM   #63
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A few years ago, I joined the Hard Case Crime Book Club, which reprints paperback crime novels from WWII to 1960, and also has current authors write in that pulp style. They're great, quick reads. Some of the authors so far have been Erle Stanley Gardner, Mickey Spillane, Lawrence Block, Elmore Leonard, and Stephen King. The covers have original art in pulp style by guys like Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik.

Right now I'm a few months behind, and I'm reading The Murderer Vine by Shepard Rifkin.

Nothing like a good detective book. I'm starting a Mystery Reading group through the library for the winter in my small town-first book up is Maltese Falcon. I thought we would start with a classic.
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Old 10-23-2008, 12:37 PM   #64
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Dead Until Dark by Charlene Harris. First in a series of vampire mystery. A funny book-very light reading.
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Old 10-28-2008, 07:34 PM   #65
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Just finished Tuesdays with Morrie. Wow! Just wow! Awesome read. Emotional and inspirational.
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Old 10-28-2008, 07:39 PM   #66
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Clive Cussler and his Oregon Series right now
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Old 10-28-2008, 07:41 PM   #67
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for english class
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Old 10-28-2008, 07:44 PM   #68
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Thunderball, 1963 (or so) paperback, Ian Fleming.
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Old 10-28-2008, 07:47 PM   #69
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With Out A Doubt.

Marsh Clark's book on the O.J Simpson trial.
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Old 10-28-2008, 08:22 PM   #70
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Reading Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.
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Old 10-28-2008, 09:39 PM   #71
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I just started "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" by Tom Standage. It's good so far.
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Old 10-28-2008, 09:55 PM   #72
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Just finished "Fleeced" by D**K Morris and now I've started "The Really Inconvenient Truths" by Iain Murray
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Old 10-28-2008, 10:04 PM   #73
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Have not read a book of this size in 10+ yrs - so I'll be at it awhile!
How are you finding it? I recall rather enjoying it, certainly not dry or boring history.

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Reading Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.
One of my favorites, absolutely hilarious.

I Just finished Black Elk Speaks, and now am starting Blood Struggle by Charles Wilkinson, both for school. Also re-reading The Conscious Use of Metaphor in Outward Bound.
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Old 10-28-2008, 10:20 PM   #74
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

"In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo."
...I've read some of his more well-known pieces (Wasteland, Murder In The Cathedral, Prufrock, Old Possum's, etc.) and just got my hands on a copy of T. S. Eliot's The Complete Poems And Plays...it's near the top of my must read pile...

Currently reading The 21st Annual Year's Best Science Fiction (2004)...edited by Gardner Dozois...
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Right now I am reading the cigar asylum forums.
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Old 10-28-2008, 10:38 PM   #76
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While waiting for CigarGal's next novel---!

...I'm rereading Gram's (RIP) second book, "Montana Treasure: Doctor O.A. Kenck, His Life and Times". Jeeez, I must still have something like 400 of these in the guest room!

Plus I picked up my first ERB John Carter series paperback this weekend... looks like fun!
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Old 10-29-2008, 02:53 AM   #77
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I always have 3 or 4 books started and stashed around the house that I can pick up and start reading anytime.

I've read these before, but right now it's:

Great Expectations - Stashed in the garage/winter cigar haven

I Killed Hemingway - Stashed on the nightstand

The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance) - Stashed beside the recliner

I seem to be in a fiction mood lately, but it's all good if it get's your mind moving.
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I always have 3 or 4 books started and stashed around the house that I can pick up and start reading anytime.

I've read these before, but right now it's:

Great Expectations - Stashed in the garage/winter cigar haven

I Killed Hemingway - Stashed on the nightstand

The Annotated Legends (Dragonlance) - Stashed beside the recliner

I seem to be in a fiction mood lately, but it's all good if it get's your mind moving.
Great Expectations is, well, Great!
I thought Hemmingway killed Hemmingway.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:03 AM   #79
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The Body of David Hayes by Ridley Pearson
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:18 AM   #80
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I thought Hemmingway killed Hemmingway.


It's about a guy claiming Hemingway was actually a hack that stole his entire persona, including his writing style, from him.

It's not a bad choice of fiction to read when the weather gets cold since a lot of the story takes place in Key West.
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