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[QUOTE=hostile;1392455]The Butchering Art. A history of Joseph Lister and his quest to find the cause and cure for surgical infections and then convince the world of the efficacy of his antiseptic methods.
A quick read and interesting to me from a professional perspective. There are so many things that are accepted as routine now that were routinely criticized.[/QUOTE
I found the post operative death rate in the London Hospitals astounding - over 90% in some hospitals. I makes my grandparents fear of them a bit more understandable. They truely were somewhere you went to die.
I may be small, but I'm slow.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."
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I just started book three of Ken Follett's Century Trilogy, Edge of Eternity
This one opens in 1961 with the Berlin Crisis and supposedly ends with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I may be small, but I'm slow.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."
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My reading group chooses all its books for each year in the preceding December. Next year’s list includes something called “A journey to the heart and soul of the Lone Star State.” I’m not sure what the heart and soul of Texas are, but I don’t want to spend 350 pages reading about it.
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Originally posted by Babs View PostMy reading group chooses all its books for each year in the preceding December. Next year’s list includes something called “A journey to the heart and soul of the Lone Star State.” I’m not sure what the heart and soul of Texas are, but I don’t want to spend 350 pages reading about it.
1) don't belong to reading groups
2) don't read books
works with 100% efficacy.
smart people. smh.I'm like LeBron James.
-mpfunk
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I've churned about twenty books this past year.
My top three:
- Bad Blood
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- Tiger Woods
Bad Blood was so outrageous - it's got to be made into a movie.Last edited by clackamascoug; 12-12-2018, 11:27 AM.
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I decided to try one of the Longmire books by Craig Johnson. The Cold Dish (first one in the series). Dang it, I might be hooked now. I am halfway through book 2 (Death Without Company).
I had low expectations because I tried the TV series and didn't like it much - I thought the acting was terrible. But the dialogue and characters in the book are really well done. And the audible narrator is great."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
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Originally posted by Babs View PostMy reading group chooses all its books for each year in the preceding December. Next year’s list includes something called “A journey to the heart and soul of the Lone Star State.” I’m not sure what the heart and soul of Texas are, but I don’t want to spend 350 pages reading about it.
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I was a reading a Lucas Davenport novel and Lucas mentioned reading a book in the Parker series by Richard Stark. So I thought it would give it a shot. Started The Hunter, which I believe is the first one in the series. Couldn't finish it. Just not that interesting.Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by falafel View PostI was a reading a Lucas Davenport novel and Lucas mentioned reading a book in the Parker series by Richard Stark. So I thought it would give it a shot. Started The Hunter, which I believe is the first one in the series. Couldn't finish it. Just not that interesting."I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
- Goatnapper'96
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Originally posted by Pelado View PostI read your post in the voice of an oldtimer... "I was a readin'..."Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by happyone View PostI just started book three of Ken Follett's Century Trilogy, Edge of Eternity
This one opens in 1961 with the Berlin Crisis and supposedly ends with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The US' racial problems seem to be one of the major themes of the novel or at least in the US portions I've read so far. Viet Nam has been mentioned, but it is still aways off.Last edited by happyone; 12-12-2018, 06:26 PM.
I may be small, but I'm slow.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."
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Originally posted by LiveCoug View PostHow does it compare to the Kingsbridge books? Similar style?Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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