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Ric
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101st Post Fri Dec 7th, 2007 03:00 pm | |
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| i would have liked that, too
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Kent
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102nd Post Fri Dec 7th, 2007 05:31 pm | |
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Ric wrote: What about Audio Books, Kent?
I've thought about that.... how do they translate for those who have read the book and heard the audio version? It would be like I was in greade school again when the teacher would read us a chapter a day.
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Ric
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103rd Post Fri Dec 7th, 2007 05:41 pm | |
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| No, not really... Many are read by TV actors, etc., and many are read by the authors.. and, typically, if the lead is a female, a female will be doing the reading... likewise ..male=male...
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albertmorris
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104th Post Fri Dec 7th, 2007 07:03 pm | |
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Kent wrote: I'm not much of a reader (can't sit that long), but I picked up The Purpose Driven Life today.
You picked a good one....
Ric, Thanks for the suggestions on Tami Hoag....will get them next week one day.... read Congo today by Michael Crichton.....liked some of his others better, but it wasn't bad.
I have to agree with Gump on the audio books.....listened to several and had a difficult time....listened to A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson, who I like a lot, but it was a real beating. He reads a lot better than he orates.
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albertmorris
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105th Post Fri Dec 14th, 2007 06:23 pm | |
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| Ric, Picked up a few books at the library today....another John Sanford, my first Tami Hoag, and a couple biographies. The Sanford book is one of the "Prey" series.
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Ric
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106th Post Fri Dec 14th, 2007 06:48 pm | |
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| You're gonna love the Prey series... Tennis Gal and several others really enjoy those.. which Hoag book did you check out?
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"There are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary. And there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance."
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albertmorris
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107th Post Fri Dec 14th, 2007 06:51 pm | |
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Dust to Dust.... it was the first one on the second shelf from the top....figured I'd start at the upper left and work my way to the right.
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Ric
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108th Post Fri Dec 14th, 2007 10:40 pm | |
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| cool. Then pick up Ashes to Ashes.....
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albertmorris
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109th Post Wed Dec 19th, 2007 07:32 pm | |
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I read the Sanford book, now my second, and it was good... in the middle of an Andrew Jackson biography before Tami Hoag...
Ric, you reading anything good?
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Ric
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110th Post Thu Dec 20th, 2007 06:52 pm | |
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| Right now, am finishing up a very good James Lee Burke novel...
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"There are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary. And there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance."
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marti
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111th Post Thu Dec 20th, 2007 08:48 pm | |
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Ric, the Tin Roof one?
Love James Lee Burke!!!!
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Ric
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112th Post Thu Dec 20th, 2007 09:07 pm | |
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| I've always said that when you read Burke, you can smell the wet spanish moss on the trees, you can see the sun setting on the bayou.. you can feel the oyster shell driveway under your feet, and you can hear the rain on the tin roof of Robichaux's house. He is THAT good.
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"There are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary. And there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance."
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marti
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113th Post Thu Dec 20th, 2007 09:24 pm | |
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| Yeah, Ric, and the insights he has...wow. He's someone I would really like to sit and listen to...Montana and the bayou...two totally different places to live. Wonder if he'll do anymore of the - what's his name? - the other series?
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Ric
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114th Post Thu Dec 20th, 2007 10:53 pm | |
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You mean the Billy Bob Holland series that takes place in Deaf Smith County, Texas, right?
I think there have been three novels.. and every one of them are so similar, that when reading one, I have always felt like I was re-reading a book.
I love his Dave Robichaux and Annie novels.. but find the 'other' series infinitely less interesting. Strange, coming from the same author, how different his styles are in the two series..
Sanford is a lot like that, too. I love the Lucas Davenport novels.. the Kidd books I can take or leave......
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"There are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary. And there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance."
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marti
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115th Post Fri Dec 21st, 2007 03:16 am | |
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I don't like the Kidd books, either.
Love Daniel Silva. and Stephen White. and Douglas Preston/Lincold Child.
My fav Dave Robichaux is the Confederate Mist one...can't recall the entire title. I just reread it.
Oh, a good book by David Baldacci(Sp) is "Wish you well". like all his books but this one is pretty special.
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Ric
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116th Post Fri Dec 21st, 2007 04:34 am | |
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In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead is one of my favorites, too... the one I'm reading now is Sunset Limited..
I like Baldacci, most of the time... sometimes he bogs down in details... but.. for the most part, a good read, and what more can you really ask from an author?
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gumpbowl
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117th Post Fri Dec 21st, 2007 04:09 pm | |
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| Free beer?
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Ric
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118th Post Fri Dec 21st, 2007 05:25 pm | |
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| well yeah.. but you never seem to get that, even at book signings. Maybe a nice glass of wine....
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gumpbowl
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119th Post Sat Dec 22nd, 2007 05:10 am | |
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| That would work too.
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klh6656
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120th Post Sun Jan 6th, 2008 04:18 pm | |
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I'm reading a thriller called BONE DEEP by Darian North that is actually pretty good (several years old) and skimming BUSH ON THE COUCH - both given to me by Tequila Mockingbird. I'm a slow reader -- fall asleep or get distracted about 20 min. in...
Bought my Dad a couple of Michael Connelly books -- do y'all like him? They sounded good. I would have bought him some of the Sandford PREY books but he has to pick them out himself because he doesn't remember for sure which ones he's read. He loves the humor...
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