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Re: So, whatcha reading?
"Into the Country" by John McPhee
"Going to Extremes" by Joe McGinniss Both are very good Alaskan travel books from the late 70s and were used by Brand & Falsey as the basis for the show "Northern Exposure". "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman about the outbreak of WWI.
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04-20-2006, 12:12 AM
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Re: So, whatcha reading?
Dirty Job - by Christopher Moore.
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04-20-2006, 12:47 AM
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Re: So, whatcha reading?
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
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04-20-2006, 10:14 AM
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Re: So, whatcha reading?
Also reading "Summer of 49" by David Halberstam
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04-20-2006, 10:24 AM
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Please come again
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04-20-2006, 10:31 AM
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Rally Onion!
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Location: Cincinnati, OH
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Re: So, whatcha reading?
Baseball Dynasties by Rob Neyer and Eddie Epstein
The Choice by Bob Woodward Real Grass Real Heroes by Dom DiMaggio The Majors by John Feinstein
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04-20-2006, 11:11 AM
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Re: So, whatcha reading?
FantasyLand: A season on baseball's lunatic fringe by Sam Walker
The World is Flat by Thomas L Freidman Baseball Between the Numbers by BP Staff
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04-20-2006, 12:44 PM
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Re: So, whatcha reading?
Just finished reading "Biggest Brother". It's a biography of Major Dick Winters from The Band of Brothers of 506 PIR during WWII. Excellent read especially if you like the mini series,Band of Brothers.
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04-20-2006, 01:01 PM
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04-20-2006, 01:05 PM
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Re: So, whatcha reading?
Little Dorrit
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04-20-2006, 01:08 PM
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04-20-2006, 01:11 PM
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04-20-2006, 01:48 PM
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Re: So, whatcha reading?
The Jeff Daniel's character in "The Squid and the Whale", who is a writer and literary snob, tells his son that A Tale of Two Cities is "lesser-Dickens" and not to waste time w/ it. Somehow, it has fallen through the cracks of my reading. I've seen the movie w/ Ronald Colman and know the story is compelling. Should I waste my time? It's a far, far better thing...
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04-20-2006, 02:20 PM
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04-20-2006, 02:25 PM
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