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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...ution/4303319/
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And right on cue with the truth being stranger than fiction:
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Just catching up with this. I agree with eldiente. JL is a turkey!Comment
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Originally posted by YOhio View Post
"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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I read the Kindle version. It's available right now.Originally posted by SteelBlue View PostLast edited by LA Ute; 01-03-2014, 01:28 PM.“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
-- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-ExuperyComment
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Un is the poor man's Mason Verger.Originally posted by SteelBlue View Post"The mind is not a boomerang. If you throw it too far it will not come back." ~ Tom McGuaneComment
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Tenth of December by George Saunders. Ten short stories, each one excellent. I highly recommend it, and will be surprised if it isn't a Pulitzer finalist this year.Comment
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Williams Kennedy, Ironweed. It's depressing."Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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A colleague who retired came across a copy of Wallace Stegner's book about the Mormon Trail. I've read the Introduction so far, and I think I'm going to like it. I finished Ironwood. Ugh!.
"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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The Known World by Edward P. Jones. Fantastic book that will haunt me for a while.Comment
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that has been on my list for a while now, but I have to get through these scandinavian thrillers first. Those swedes are messed up.Originally posted by SteelBlue View PostComment
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I finished The Long Walk a week or so. Not bad, though I was disappointed that the twist (Stebbins' true identity) was completely predictable. It wouldn't surprise me if that book served as some inspiration for The Hunger Games trilogy.
On my flight back from Florida, I was unable to get a movie to download at the ATL airport because the wi-fi kept getting interrupted. As a result, I re-started (I gave up after 4 pages last month due to lack of punctuation) and finished The Road on my flight. Still not a fan of the absent punctuation, but the story was great.
I'm now listening to the Andre Agassi Bio on my commute. A little melodramatic so far, but not bad. I'm only two chapters in, but I already get the sense that Agassi really (really!) needs to convince everyone that he is a tortured genius. :eyeroll:Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss
There's three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, everything else is cream cheese. --Coach FinstockComment
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Finished The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri. I liked it.
Starting The Good Lord Bird by James McBride. Anyone read this? It has started off very strong.Comment
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Tom Clancy: Command Authority.
25% of the way through. Same TC book as always, but damn if I don't dig em.Comment
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Summer Death by Mons Kallentoft This was just ok. Probably the book I have liked the least when it comes to Swedish crime novels. I would like to read the first in the series, just to see if it is better.
Just started an icelandic thriller and I after 20 pages I already like it so much more than Kallentoft's writing.Comment
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Finished The Good Lord Bird last night. I cannot recommend it highly enough, (won the National Book Award this year). I had not read any James McBride prior to this, but I will now remedy that situation. The book is a fictional account of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry that contains a lot more comedy than you'd think could be mustered on such a topic. Think Mark Twain meets Tarantino. I'm sad to be finished with it.
Here's the NYT review of the novel:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/bo...bird.html?_r=0
Edit: didn't know the pic would be so big. Can't seem to get rid of it.Comment
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