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Reading The Cold Dish, the first of Craig Johnson's Longmire series. It's a fun read, but I'm having trouble with images of Robert Taylor's Walt and "Starbuck's" Vic from the TV series not fitting the characters in the book.
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Originally posted by lithog: Reading The Cold Dish, the first of Craig Johnson's Longmire series. It's a fun read, but I'm having trouble with images of Robert Taylor's Walt and "Starbuck's" Vic from the TV series not fitting the characters in the book.
'Cause they really don't. Especially Vic/Starbuck. They are NOTHING alike except the name.
I've really enjoyed the CJ Box Joe Pickett books I've read based on recommendations here.
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I have The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection on my shelf. I've read them before, individually, but I'm looking forward to diving back in after I've finished my current read (mentioned above), they are my guilty pleasure. After that, I have a biography of the Duke of Wellington to get through, followed by a re-read of either the Aubrey-Maturin series or perhaps Cornwell's Sharpe Collection.
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"Madhouse at the End of the Earth" by Julian Sancton. Excellent story about survival in Antartica. I always like when an author concludes the story with the "after", well done in this book.
The wreck of the Jeanette is mentioned a few times, a good book on that is "Kingdom of Ice" by Hamton Sides.
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Re-reading Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.This message has been edited. Last edited by: ensigmatic,
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
I completed The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout and then went on to The Last Shootist by his son, Miles Swarthout. This is a sequel to The Shootist
Now, I'm reading The Old Colts by Glendon Swarthout, which is a mixture of fact and fiction about Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp in their later years and it is, in a word, delightful.
Originally posted by ensigmatic: Re-reading Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.
The parallels to what's happening today are almost frightening.
Too bad it isn't about half as long as it takes a hundred or so pages to get into it and many don't have the attention span to follow it that long before giving up. Once you understand where it's going and can see the parallels to today's world, you start to wish it was required reading in every school.
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Originally posted by parabellum: Politics in an apolitical thread.
It's understandable, though. I've said this a mere 30,000 times, so...
My sincere apologies, para. My fault. It was a thoughtless, off-hand comment.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
I just finished "The Quartet" by Joseph Ellis. I probably knew a lot of what's in this book but I'm old and needed a refresher. Great read on the forming of the United States and writing the Constitution. Very readable, made me go and get his "Founding Brothers" to read next.
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Although I'm a big crime-fiction fan -- particularly of vintage noir -- and have read my share of modern masters, I've never read any Elmore Leonard. Just always figured, I suppose, that his work wasn't "dark" enough, that it was too lighthearted for the despair and bleak fatalism I like in my crime reads. But thought it was time to get over that and find out why he's considered among our very best crime writers. Starting off with what I understand is one of his best, GET SHORTY; began it last night and really enjoying it so far. It's been a loonnng time since I've seen the film, so am able to keep the image of Travolta out of mind.
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