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 janneseti  Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 
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Next book to read. Liberty Lady.  Liberty Lady is a highly personal yet also credible and important history of both US airmen and the men and women of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS later CIA) in Sweden during WWII. In short, Liberty Lady is THE English language book about espionage and love in WWII Sweden, especially in Stockholm, the Casablanca of the north. http://larsgyllenhaal.blogspot.se/2017/05/casablanca-of-north.html |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan Did the singer-songwriter take portions of his Nobel lecture from SparkNotes? http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/06/did_bob_dylan_take_from_sparknotes_for_his_nobel_lecture.html Some think he did and that the prize should go to SparkNotes instead:)  |
anniet  Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 
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I'm hoping to find the time to re-read The Pigeon, by Patrick Suskind. I have my reasons :) |
Jim Martin   Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2484 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 
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"When Breath Becomes Air", by Paul Kalanithi. Famous neurosurgeon/neuroscientist faces his own mortality. |
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2484 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0
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"Thank You for Being Late", by Thomas L. Friedman. |
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George 254 Send message Joined: 25 Jul 99 Posts: 155 Credit: 16,507,264 RAC: 19 
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Dear Suzie-Q I brought my 3 daughters up on Winnie the Pooh, actually a collection of 4 books - 2 poems and 2 stories and managed to get the books signed by Christopher Robin! They all became teachers at some point and nice to think they read the Winnie the Pooh stories to their children. Current reading: Just finished Most Secret War by R V Jones - techie WW2 history or early days ECM warfare. ISBN: 978-0-141-04282-4 Now: One-third through Ray Monk's Inside the Centre, The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer - biography of brilliant but often strange guy. ISBN: 978-0-09943-353-8 Bonus of this book is that the author explains physics clearly where necessary. Both the above books have superlative reviews. Regards George E |
rob smith    Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22752 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380
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Last week's flights and flight-delays were profitable from the reading point of view. A couple of work related books that I've been trying to read for some time, three "airport novels" and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (again - must be forth or fifth reading and I still find new twists in it). Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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George 254 Send message Joined: 25 Jul 99 Posts: 155 Credit: 16,507,264 RAC: 19
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Bob If you are into spy trilogies, then John Gardner's The Secret Trilogy might be of interest http://www.john-gardner.com/ Regards George |
Angela  Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31
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The Horatio Hornblower series... let every buckle be swashed!!! |
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2484 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0
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"Mozart's Starling", by Lyanda Lynn Haupt. |
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Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 |
The Horatio Hornblower series... let every buckle be swashed!!! Darn, I was waiting to be swashed but someone else blew his horn.... You know how those Jazz players are.... How many books about HH did he finally write? Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
cRunchy  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3555 Credit: 1,920,030 RAC: 3
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Cecile Pineda: "Face" Reading it again. Read it many years ago when a young one but then knew it as "The Mask" It disturbed me. It mixed both the experience of losing ones physical face (through accident) and only having the lottery to rely on for possible treatment (poor and no national health service) and wanting so much to be loved by the girl he liked who might never look at him as a valid person. I never forgot this book because of the impossibility of the situation and because it was really well written from behind the eyes of the main character. . |
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Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31
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How many books about HH did he finally write? Eleven. I'm just starting the first, but we bought the whole series. When Ol'Pookers and I are done reading the series, we're passing the books along to a niece, age thirteen and a nephew, age 16. After they read them, if they don't want to keep them, they can donate them to a library. |
Admiral Gloval  Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21894 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein.  
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Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 37859 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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Book 2 of The Mallorean by David Eddings. Cheers. |
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Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 |
Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein. Right on! And a great "Nija Racoon" picture! Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2484 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0
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Just finished, "Hillbilly Elegy", by J. D. Vance. |
David S  Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12
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The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad by Robert Athearn The early history is really fascinating. Lots of political, financial, and legal intrigue. Courts overriding each others' rulings and "interpreting" SCOTUS decisions, sheriffs and parties of "deputized" armed men from the Rio Grande and its rival Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe enforcing whichever judge they prefer, townspeople and newspaper editors either supporting or hating it and then changing their minds when they got what they wanted and it was worse. And I'm only through the first ten years. The original intent of the founder was exactly what the name said: to go down the front range of the Rockies and connect Denver to the Rio Grande River at El Paso, and from there perhaps all the way to Mexico City. All the lines west into the mountains were just branches to lucrative traffic sources that would pay for more construction. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2484 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0
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"A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age", by David J. Helfand. |
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rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22752 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380
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A very boring technical report - which is why I'm posting here Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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