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Post by Charlie on Sept 12, 2009 8:35:40 GMT -6
Read Coach by Michael Lewis. It's about his high school baseball coach and how times have changed since then. Pretty good read. Only about 90 pages.
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Post by Dale on Sept 12, 2009 8:52:43 GMT -6
Read Coach by Michael Lewis. It's about his high school baseball coach and how times have changed since then. Pretty good read. Only about 90 pages. Read it in about half an hour.  |
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Post by kickinfamily on Sept 15, 2009 10:15:31 GMT -6
Just finished reading John Grisham's "The Chamber" (all 676 paperback pages of it)... I actually had picked it up a long time ago at the Dickson Street Bookshop (my personal Holy Land  , but never got around to reading it... Capital punishment and the history of racially-motivated crimes have always been an interest area of mine, so this book was a natural... I thought it was very well done, with a good progression toward the climax... Several things didn't happen that I was waiting for, so I was kinda disappointed... Overall, I will give it 4 of 5 stars... Oh, what the heck... **** SPOILER ALERT ****I was disappointed Lee disappeared until the end... Was hoping she'd play a bigger role in it all... Kept waiting for Sam's accomplice (Rollie) to pull some stunts just to make sure everyone stayed quiet, but that never happened either... Of course, I was also hoping for Sam to get a stay, but I think the ending was just fine as it was done... |
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Post by Charlie on Dec 2, 2009 19:43:06 GMT -6
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Post by kickinfamily on Dec 3, 2009 8:59:06 GMT -6
I keep forgetting to post what I read here...  I read about 2-3 books a week... Working on "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson... Very good... A nice locked-room mystery that uses an island as the setting... Oh, and "Lovely Bones" was an outstanding book, no doubt about it... |
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Post by Charlie on Dec 11, 2009 10:33:56 GMT -6
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Post by Dale on Dec 11, 2009 12:22:23 GMT -6
Very good! |
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Post by kickinfamily on Dec 15, 2009 11:44:14 GMT -6
Cool! I've been wanting to check that one out since I saw it advertised in SI...
Just read "World War Z" by Max Brooks... More a narration of a post-zombie war than an actual novel...
Also read "Scavenger" by David Morrell... Very good suspense / thriller... Well worth the read...
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Post by Charlie on Dec 15, 2009 14:34:01 GMT -6
I've read a few David Morrell books, he's good.
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Post by kickinfamily on Dec 16, 2009 9:55:57 GMT -6
I've read a few David Morrell books, he's good. I didn't realize until I got looking at his other works that he did "First Blood", which the Rambo series was based on... Definitely gotta hunt that down... |
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Post by Charlie on Dec 16, 2009 10:14:34 GMT -6
I've read a few David Morrell books, he's good. I didn't realize until I got looking at his other works that he did "First Blood", which the Rambo series was based on... Definitely gotta hunt that down... I haven't read that one. I really enjoyed his trilogy of: The Brotherhood of the Rose The Fraternity of the Stone The League of Night and Fog |
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Post by kickinfamily on Dec 16, 2009 10:15:32 GMT -6
Of those, I've only read "Brotherhood..." Never got around to reading the others, although the first was outstanding... I'm reading "Ginger Pye" a young adult book I grabbed off my younger son's shelf...  |
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Post by Charlie on Dec 27, 2009 10:56:03 GMT -6
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Post by Charlie on Dec 30, 2009 16:29:31 GMT -6
I read "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth to finish out the year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plot_Against_AmericaBest book I read this year and the best book I've read in a while. It's told from the pov of the youngest son of a Jewish family living in a Jewish neighborhood in New Jersey, in an alternate history in which Charles Lindbergh is elected president in 1940 over FDR. Lindbergh is an anti-Semite and an isolationist and vows to keep the country out of WWII. The book is mostly about the family, set against this weird universe where the American government signs treaties with the Nazis and the Japanese instead of going to war against them. Really really good book. First I've read of Philip Roth but I'll definitely be reading more. |
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, but never got around to reading it... Capital punishment and the history of racially-motivated crimes have always been an interest area of mine, so this book was a natural...
I read about 2-3 books a week... Working on "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson... Very good... A nice locked-room mystery that uses an island as the setting... 