Re: Recent reads? Apollo 13 (formerly Lost Moon) by Jim Lovell was great. Very in-depth from the guy who was actually there.
Scar Tissue By Anthony Kiedis - By all accounts he should have died at least 5 times. Lots of ups and downs. Plus them being my fave band doesn't hurt.
You do the math..... I'll do the alfredo!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Re: Recent reads? The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
Re: Recent reads? Planet of Slums by Mike Davis. Awesome read.
Re: Recent reads? Now try No Country For Old Men by McCarthy(if you haven't). The Coen brothers just made a movie out of it and it looks like it is going to win Cannes. What I'm reading: A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers)Originally Posted by Flop The Nuts
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Author: Robert Bringhurst
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ISBN: 9780803261792
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The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For more than a thousand years before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished on these islands. In 1900 and 1901 the linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last traditional Haida-speaking storytellers, poets, and historians. Robert Bringhurst worked for many years with these manuscripts, and here he brings them to life in the English language. A Story as Sharp as a Knife brings a lifetime of passion and a broad array of skills;humanistic, scientific, and poetic;to focus on a rich and powerful tradition that the world has long ignored.s
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Re: Recent reads? Oh, and Conan the Destroyer for the 10th time
"I like my antiques new " - Steve Martin
Re: Recent reads? I have read No Country For Old Men, and it ought to be a great movie. I'm thinking of working my way back through McCarthy's catalog, starting with The Border Trilogy.
McCarthy is an interesting writer. While I'm reading his prose, I don't get the feeling that he is going into an extraordinary level of detail of description, but after I've read the book I have vivid memories of scenes described in the book. That's a pretty rare talent, just setting up the framework for a scene, and letting the reader fill in the rest.
Re: Recent reads?
I've been trying to read that for awhile, just too busy. No reading in my near future either.
I have been busy with my genealogy addiction - my mother-in-law gave me the info from her mother's family Bible on Mother's Day. It included the name of her great-grandfather, which I didn't know previously. I plugged it into the tree I'm building on Ancestry.com and it came back with a Civil War Pension form. I got the paperwork from the National Archives yesterday to request his packet of info- I understand that he had to fill out an extensive questionaire to collect the pension.
The info that I already have included the names of three Union Colored Heavy Artillery units that he fought in. I read that casualties were high - one in three African-American soldiers were killed. I know that he survived - his children were born after the war.
I guess any reading that I do in the near future will be related to those units, but I need to do some more internet research first.
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." -- Abraham Lincoln
Re: Recent reads? What did you think of it, I was thinking about picking this up for my next read...
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Re: Recent reads? I thought it was a good book worth reading. I bet Bluestater hated it.
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