>>>>He peeked out for the hockey gold medal game <g>. We'll see....
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>>>>I am still enjoying the Robert Altman book a lot. Just finished reading the long chapter on "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" on the train this morning. Don't miss this one.
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>>>I remember McCabe and Mrs. Miller. It was a lot of fun. It's one of those movies I was sure I was not going to enjoy, but...
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>>>I just finished two books by T. Jefferson Parker. I read "Silent Joe" a long time ago, and I'd forgotten just how good a writer he is. The two books are "L.A. Outlaws" and "The Renegades". The 2nd is a sequel to the 1st, and I can't imagine how he could possibly leave it there. There will be at the very least, a third book.
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>>There already is a third Charlie Hood book, a new one, and in fact I just read it a couple of weeks ago. I have read most of Parker's books, going all the way back to "Laguna Heat.". After reading "Iron River" (the new one) I picked up "The Renegades" from the library. I did not like that one nearly as much and gave up on it last night about 100 pages in. Maybe I should have given it longer. The reading backlog is huge so I am not nearly as reluctant to put a book down as I used to be.
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>I should have realised there'd be a third one out since I read the first two in paperback. I thought the first one (L.A. Outlaws) was better than The Renegades, but Renegades was ok. The writing is very good. The story could have been a bit better.
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>If I recall, you hadn't read any of the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde. You really should. I'm sure Charles would agree that you'd enjoy the hell out of them. A word of warning, they MUST be read in order.
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>The Eyre Affair
>Lost in a Good Book
>The Well of Lost Plots
>Something Rotten
>First Among Sequels
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>His DCI Jack Spratt books are a lot of fun too, but the Thursday Next books are brilliant.
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>Alan
I LOVE Fforde ! How can one not be entranced by a dodo named Pickwick. Indeed a treat.
Tamar you would really like these if you don't already know them. (I'd begin with Eyre Affair )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
