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Offline lazs2

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2008, 02:19:38 PM »
I just started reading some zombie books..  I just finished the second in a "morningstar" series that starts with "plague of the dead"... great, fun read.    "city of the dead" is also great but never lets up.. there is no place to put the book down.

Another good read is "house to house" a very intense firsthand look at the falujah fighting in iraq..

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« Reply #16 on: June 17, 2008, 02:27:06 PM »
It was still a pretty good movie MT.  Some changes had to be made to keep the main character current.  So Bob Lee Swagger couldn't be a Vietnam war veteran.

Man....I would have LOVED to have seen this made ten years earlier with Tommy Lee Jones playing Bob Lee!   ;)
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« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2008, 02:27:50 PM »
Been reading a lot of kids books lately, with the boys out for the summer.  Read Escape to Witch Mountain the other day... Jim Bowie: A Texas Legend, as well as a slew of picture/info books on snakes, spiders & any other creepy-crawley things.
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« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2008, 02:31:58 PM »
Picked up "The Road To Reality" by Roger Penrose in the bargain bin. The title is a bit arrogant but it's pretty good.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #19 on: June 17, 2008, 02:38:11 PM »
Quote from: lazs2 on June 17, 2008, 02:19:38 PM
I just started reading some zombie books..  I just finished the second in a "morningstar" series that starts with "plague of the dead"... great, fun read.    "city of the dead" is also great but never lets up.. there is no place to put the book down.

Another good read is "house to house" a very intense firsthand look at the falujah fighting in iraq..

lazs

You might enjoy these. They are a ripoff of the Romero stories but I enjoyed them.

http://www.djmoody.co.uk/Start2.htm
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #20 on: June 17, 2008, 02:40:48 PM »
texasmom, the best novel I ever read about Jim Bowie was entitled "The Iron Mistress" by Paul Wellman, and it was later made into a movie starring Alan Ladd.  Bowie's family once owned land within a few miles of my home town.  His brother is buried in a small church cemetery at Halley, Arkansas.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #21 on: June 17, 2008, 02:42:57 PM »
I'm reading a Biography of George Orwell by Christopher Hitchens.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #22 on: June 17, 2008, 02:45:22 PM »
Quote from: GtoRA2 on June 17, 2008, 11:25:37 AM
The Biggest Brother, the life of Major Dick Winters, the man who led the Band of Brothers. By larry Alexander. Great read so far.

Link at Amazon (did JB88 figure this out yet?)

I need to get Brothers in Battle next.

I picked both of those up in a bookstore in the airport in Atlanta last week on the way to Vancouver and haven't had a chance to start reading them yet.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #23 on: June 17, 2008, 02:45:34 PM »
Quote from: Shuckins on June 17, 2008, 02:40:48 PM
texasmom, the best novel I ever read about Jim Bowie was entitled "The Iron Mistress" by Paul Wellman, and it was later made into a movie starring Alan Ladd.  Bowie's family once owned land within a few miles of my home town.  His brother is buried in a small church cemetery at Halley, Arkansas.
Thank you! I'll definitely check that out next trip to the Library!  :)
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #24 on: June 17, 2008, 02:46:43 PM »
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #25 on: June 17, 2008, 02:51:01 PM »
I am re-reading a few Star Wars novels and just saw a book last night on my son's bedside table called "Football Genius" (its a kids book but I got hooked into it about midnight when I couldn't sleep). Also reading the SAS Survival guide book since it was my father's day gift to me a few weeks ago.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #26 on: June 17, 2008, 08:36:29 PM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #27 on: June 17, 2008, 09:23:45 PM »
Futari H volume 2
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #28 on: June 17, 2008, 09:37:29 PM »
Protector by Larry Niven.

might not spend months reading it this time... :lol
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #29 on: June 17, 2008, 09:46:11 PM »
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: checkmate by David Michaels. :aok
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