You bet.Originally Posted by Jaycint
I wish the term "graphic novel" had been coined back in my day. It would have sounded a lot better if I had told my folks I was reading a graphic novel instead of a comic book.
You bet.Originally Posted by Jaycint
I wish the term "graphic novel" had been coined back in my day. It would have sounded a lot better if I had told my folks I was reading a graphic novel instead of a comic book.
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
I try to read but I fall asleep. Honestly.
When does this end? When my kids are in highschool keeping me awake at night because they have driver's licenses? I think my mom made it through the entire western canon when my brothers and I were teenagers.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
Charleton Heston in a gold jump suit. What could be bad about that?Originally Posted by Jaycint
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
There is also a 1964 film called The Last Man on Earth that is based on I Am Legend and it stars Vincent Price as- you guessed it- the last man on earth. As to whether or not it is as bad/worse/better than Omega I can't say.Originally Posted by SunDeck
I'm currently reading that one. So far I like it, although some parts are a little redundant(which is sort of the point I suppose). I definitely know more about soil erosion than I ever thought I would.Originally Posted by RosieRed
"Announcing your plans is a good way to hear god laugh" -Al Swearengen, Deadwood
Fubar:A novel of deception By Ron Carpol This is one of the funniest, raunchiest books I have ever read. Pick it up!
Baseball is life
Just finished up "Secret Life of Lobsters" by Trevor Corson on a recent weekend trip.
I took several books with me, figuring I would be flipping back and forth, but I couldn't put it down, to be honest.
The book intersects the life of lobsters, lobster fisherman and the scientists who study lobsters, all in a tight area known as the Gulf of Maine over a 10-15 year period. As you can imagine, those interests go in conflicting directions.
I found it light, funny (sometimes laugh out loud funny at lobster behavior) with just enough science in it to quench that bug but not too much to make it overwhleming. There is a huge section on Lobster mating and housing that was fascinating as well as just bizarre.
That book turned me onto another book, "Cod" by Mark Kurlansky, because cod, and the lack of them in the gulf of maine, is discussed at length in the Corson book.
I've read another Kurlansky book, "Salt", and this is very similiar.
Kurlansky has an interesting proposition in the book, that the pursuit of cod by the portuguese, the Nordic and the Basque people, would have meant that they discovered the Labrador coast off of Canada long before Christopher Columbus set sail.
I'm not a big fisherman, but Cod was another page turner, a short book.
Oddly enough, or perhaps, ironicly, I was in a bookstore here in town and I had the chance to meet Clive Cussler, who's a famous fiction writer about shipwrecked boats. Talking with him, even though I'm not a fiction reader, I picked up the first of his new "Numa" series of books, "Serpent" and I'm reading it now. Different than non-fiction, that's for sure. Characters strike me as a little too perfect, model-esq and blemish free for my taste, but the story line is solid.
Screenwriters Workbook by Syd Field
I think I'm in the minority on this, but I found it to be one of the worst written bestsellers I've ever read in my life. Great story, and I'm sure the movie will be compelling, but found the writing to be embarrasingly clumbsy and square. Dan Brown went to my high school.Originally Posted by jmcclain19
Stick to your guns.
"Around the Bloc" about an american who spends a few years living in ex communist bloc countries. pretty interesting so far.
Baseball Uncensored-Johnathan Story
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups
Sea of Swords-RA Salvatore
and as always, The Bible
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A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
School's out. What did you expect?
The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers -Rob Neyer,Bill James
and
Contents Under Pressure
30 Years of RUSH at Home and Away -Martin Popoff
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"Sit over here next to Johnathan (Bench)...sit right here, he's smart."--Sparky Anderson
Liked it.Originally Posted by pedro
Anybody read "I am Charlotte Simmons?" Thinking about getting it on tape for a 15 hour drive.
Stick to your guns.
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