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Post by seguin on Jun 15, 2007 23:37:55 GMT -5
Conan Doyle´s Sherlock Holmes short stories are just great! I´ve read all of them more than once as a teenager. Now you can read them for free on the web!
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Post by Rick on Jul 13, 2007 21:54:32 GMT -5
Michael Blake's Hollywood and the O.K. Corral: Portrayals of the Gunfight and Wyatt Earp.
After that will be A. Wilson Greene's Whatever You Resolve to Be: Essays on Stonewall Jackson, followed by Adrian Greaves' Rorke's Drift.
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Post by Rick on Aug 11, 2007 20:39:33 GMT -5
Thomas Fleming's Washington's Secret War, about all the crap George had to put up with while camped at Valley Forge.
After that, it's The Commodore, in the Jack Aubrey series.
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Post by seguin on Aug 11, 2007 22:49:28 GMT -5
Steve Richmond´s Spinning Off Bukowski, about richmond´s relationship with the American writer and poet Charles Bukowski. After that, It´ll be One Domingo Morning (Huthmacher), The Alamo Story (Edmondson) and A Revolution Remembered (de la Teja), probably in that order...
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Post by Greg C. on Aug 12, 2007 8:41:45 GMT -5
still trying to get that darned sherlock holmes done....
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Post by neferetus on Aug 12, 2007 14:11:34 GMT -5
still trying to get that darned sherlock holmes done.... One of the novels, or a collection of the 56 short stories? I am rather a Holmes fan myself and even have a bound edition of the original 1892 Strand Magazine featuring the Holmes story, SILVER BLAZE.
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Post by Greg C. on Aug 12, 2007 14:15:53 GMT -5
no, its got ONLY 20 stories or so but i just can't get into them even though I like mystreries.
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Post by seguin on Aug 12, 2007 15:01:51 GMT -5
no, its got ONLY 20 stories or so but i just can't get into them even though I like mystreries. Too bad! You´re missing out on some great short stories. I´ve read all 56 short stories and all 4 novels several times when I was young. I was quite a Sherlock Holmes fan back then and still is. I hope you read some of the stories sooner or later. At least a few of them... "Come, Watson! The game is afoot..."
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Post by kfl on Aug 29, 2007 21:04:49 GMT -5
i am bouncing between Harry Potter Book Seven and Star Wars, Path of Destruction.
i am a big fan of both these books.
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Post by Greg C. on Aug 29, 2007 21:12:40 GMT -5
Stick with Star Wars!
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Post by bubbabod on Sept 9, 2007 21:51:45 GMT -5
Well, first off, who or what I like to read, my favorite authors for fiction are Stuart Woods, Patricia Cornwell and James Patterson. What am I reading now? I am currently reading a book by Elsa Spear. It is called "Bozeman Trail Scrapbook, The books and photos of Elsa Spear." This is a compilation of her writings and photos by family members. Elsa was from an early ranching family in and around the Bighorn Mountains, an ardent outdoorswoman and photographer, writer. You name it. The book is about the history of the Bozeman Trail and the three forts the army built to protect it, especially Ft. Phil Kearney in between present Buffalo and Sheridan, Wy. It is my favorite historical subject that I study, even moreso than the Little Big Horn.
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 11, 2007 18:49:37 GMT -5
Damn that Sherlock Holmes!
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Post by neferetus on Sept 21, 2007 13:58:43 GMT -5
I've taken up reading John Steinbeck, lately. Just finished CANNERY ROW, SWEET THURSDAY and am now just about finished with TORTILLA FLAT, a book that is wildly funny and yet poignant, at the same time.
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Post by neferetus on Oct 12, 2007 23:26:46 GMT -5
Just finished re-reading CROW KILLER (1958) by Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker for the pure enjoyment of it. CROW KILLER follows the true-life story of Mountain Man John Johnston, aka "Liver-Eating Johnson" who went on a vendetta against the entire Crow Indian nation for the murder of his squaw and unborn child. The book is filled with such brutal, wrenching, stomach-turning action, that it must be taken in doses. I found myself reading it for only ten, or so pages at a time, yet it seemed like ten chapters of action were packed into that small space.
In 1969, Robert Redford starred in a more sanitized verson of Johnston's story called JEREMIAH JOHNSON.
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 13, 2007 6:31:25 GMT -5
The movie was good, which do you think was better?
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Post by neferetus on Oct 13, 2007 11:09:17 GMT -5
The movie was good, which do you think was better? Oh, I like Jeremiah Johnson a lot. But, if the truth be told, were it to mirror the actual life of "Liver-Eating Johnson", it would have to have a very severe R-Rating. Aside from all the grisly deaths from torture by the Indians, Johnson became known as "Liver-Eating" Johnson, due to the fact that he would cut out the liver of each Crow warrior he slew and then proceed to eat it raw.
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 13, 2007 14:45:48 GMT -5
Gotta get my hands on this book....sounds pretty well know, Barnes and Noble should carry it...
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Post by RebAl on Oct 23, 2007 7:15:14 GMT -5
Last Flag Down is a story of CSS Shenandoah's epic voyage seen through the eyes of its first officer, Conway Whittle, a young 24 years old Confederate naval officer. The book much from the diaries and other accounts written by Whittle and take the situation at hand from his perception. From this approach, you get a ground eye view of the working of this Confederate naval raider that wrecked havoc among Union shipping during the last year of the war and little bit beyond.
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Post by Rick on Oct 23, 2007 18:37:28 GMT -5
I've got to read Crow Killer one of these days. I've read Vardis Fisher's Mountain Man -- the other book that Jeremiah Johnson was based on -- and it's a good read.
Right now I'm reading Laura Ingraham's Shut Up and Sing.
Recently picked up three Civil War books that likely are next on my to-do list: Stephen W. Sears' Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, and Edward Steers' Blood on the Moon.
I liked Sears' book on Antietam, Landscape Turned Red.
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Post by RebAl on Nov 2, 2007 13:22:49 GMT -5
I've got to read Crow Killer one of these days. I've read Vardis Fisher's Mountain Man -- the other book that Jeremiah Johnson was based on -- and it's a good read. Right now I'm reading Laura Ingraham's Shut Up and Sing.Recently picked up three Civil War books that likely are next on my to-do list: Stephen W. Sears' Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, and Edward Steers' Blood on the Moon.I liked Sears' book on Antietam, Landscape Turned Red.Some good books there, where's Antietam is it near Sharpsburg?
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