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Posted on 5/30/15 at 4:11 am to CatFan81
Just started "Good to Great"
Posted on 5/30/15 at 5:22 am to LewDawg
Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy. Google for a brief synopsis to see if it would interest you.
Posted on 5/30/15 at 8:28 am to CatFan81
Posted on 5/30/15 at 9:44 am to CatFan81
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
Posted on 5/30/15 at 9:58 am to VaBamaMan
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VaBamaMan
Haunted Mesa and Last of the Breed were awesome as well, I have everything he has written.
Posted on 5/30/15 at 1:12 pm to CatFan81
American Lion, it's about Andrew Jackson
There's a little known short book called Operation White Star about the beginnings of the Vietnam war that is awesome. I would recommend it
Also, shut up catfan
There's a little known short book called Operation White Star about the beginnings of the Vietnam war that is awesome. I would recommend it
Also, shut up catfan
Posted on 5/30/15 at 1:23 pm to CatFan81
Papillon
It's about a criminal's attempts to escape prison, being captured and sent to an even worse prison, rinse and repeat. Based on a true story although some facts are disputed.
It was made into a movie in the 1973 with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
It's about a criminal's attempts to escape prison, being captured and sent to an even worse prison, rinse and repeat. Based on a true story although some facts are disputed.
It was made into a movie in the 1973 with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
Posted on 5/30/15 at 1:54 pm to CatFan81
About to start a new Clancy/Jack Ryan book. Just have not picked which one
Posted on 5/30/15 at 2:42 pm to CatFan81
God's Traitors
It's about "Elizabethan" Age England and Queen Elizabeth the 1st using her absolute power and adopting Protestantism as the official religion of England. She ordered Catholics be rounded up, imprisoned, and tortured until they renounced their beliefs. If they refused, they were executed.
I'm 58 pages in.
Pretty good so far. You always hear about the Spanish Inquisition with Catholics, but this book has given great insight into the unfathomable and often brutal extremes the queen took to "conform" her subjects.
It's about "Elizabethan" Age England and Queen Elizabeth the 1st using her absolute power and adopting Protestantism as the official religion of England. She ordered Catholics be rounded up, imprisoned, and tortured until they renounced their beliefs. If they refused, they were executed.
I'm 58 pages in.
Pretty good so far. You always hear about the Spanish Inquisition with Catholics, but this book has given great insight into the unfathomable and often brutal extremes the queen took to "conform" her subjects.
Posted on 5/30/15 at 2:46 pm to knight_ryder
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50 Shades of Gay.
FIFY... A&M and all.
Posted on 5/30/15 at 2:49 pm to memphisplaya
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It's about "Elizabethan" Age England and Queen Elizabeth the 1st using her absolute power and adopting Protestantism as the official religion of England. She ordered Catholics be rounded up, imprisoned, and tortured until they renounced their beliefs. If they refused, they were executed.
The one who was a bastard about this stuff was her daddy. Henry VIII. He was more about stealing the wealth of the church in England because his government was broke from his own lavish living and wars of aggression. Would shut down monasteries just to steal their wealth. Really hurt is common folk though because most of the "hospitals" of the age were in monasteries. This also included any and all aid to the poor, which was almost non existant.
Posted on 5/30/15 at 2:51 pm to LanierSpots
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About to start a new Clancy/Jack Ryan book. Just have not picked which one
Clancy himself hadnt written a book for about 15 years before he died. Almost all his stuff after the 90's was done by other writers under his brand. Some of it is OK, but none of it is up to his original Jack Ryan books.
Cardinal of the Kremlin is easily my favorite, though I have read them all. I am also a big James Clavell fan. The Shogun book was awesome amongst others.
Posted on 5/30/15 at 2:52 pm to CatFan81
you, silly, but just finished re-read of
"the Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus/
All the Words"...Vol 1
it is first 23 shows of series in book form...
there are some doozies in there...
"we use only the Finest baby frogs......."
"the Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus/
All the Words"...Vol 1
it is first 23 shows of series in book form...
there are some doozies in there...
"we use only the Finest baby frogs......."
This post was edited on 5/30/15 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 5/30/15 at 5:56 pm to CatFan81
48 Days To The Work You Love
Posted on 5/31/15 at 3:17 pm to Agforlife
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Haunted Mesa and Last of the Breed were awesome as well, I have everything he has written
I have 105 L'amour's. Some are doubles. I had charted it a few years back, and I was missing one book. For the life of me I cannot remember which it is. I need to sit down and go through them again. Makes it tougher with his son occasionally releasing stories he half finished for his Dad.
Walking Drum and The Lonesome Gods are his best full lengths novels imo. Sitka a close third, and Last of the Breed not far behind it. Haunted Mesa was such a outlier for him, was kind of hard to read as a Louis fan. You can simultaneously say it is his best full length novel, and his worst.
Posted on 5/31/15 at 5:03 pm to CatFan81
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What Are You Reading Right Now?
God, Guns, Grits and Gravy - Mike Huckabee
Posted on 5/31/15 at 5:20 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Finished the Divergent series before that. Fun read.
Fun until the end. I should have known.
Posted on 5/31/15 at 5:36 pm to VaBamaMan
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I have 105 L'amour's. Some are doubles. I had charted it a few years back, and I was missing one book. For the life of me I cannot remember which it is. I need to sit down and go through them again. Makes it tougher with his son occasionally releasing stories he half finished for his Dad.
Walking Drum and The Lonesome Gods are his best full lengths novels imo. Sitka a close third, and Last of the Breed not far behind it. Haunted Mesa was such a outlier for him, was kind of hard to read as a Louis fan. You can simultaneously say it is his best full length novel, and his worst.
My favorites are the dime novel short story compilations and the various Sackett series, but Smoke From This Alter will always be kept where I can read it regularly.
Posted on 5/31/15 at 8:10 pm to CatFan81
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Looking forward to reading it. I can one up my SO. I'm not even from the south. He went to a private school in the south, plus Alabama for undergrad and an Atlanta law school... and he's never read it.
Very few modern Southerners have actually read it in its entirety. It's more often bought and shelved then actually read; it's insanely long and the more quicly digested movie is kind of considered a masterpiece in its own right.
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