Read any good books?

[Sportsdude]

Yeah you should have been there or not been there. People were passing out at 1pm when we got there. People started throwing stuff at this one guys house because he closed the windows and blinds to his mini porno shoot his was shooting. Girls were getting there asses and front sides slapped and gropped from the windows and some girls were having sex. The Cops, well if you know anything about saint louis the cops are the most pathetic on the planet. Except for the "Eye in the Sky" camera which was to catch people urinating in public which didn't do squat because people urinated behind the open air market. The only time the cops got involved was when there was a major fight, a riot (at the one house the cop just runs off the rioter by saying "that shit ain't funny").  Thank God this only happens once a year.

[kitten]

I just finished a truly hilarious book titled "Don't Turn Your Back In The Barn.  It was written by a veterinarian who practices in a small town, Lister, B.C.  He describes his experiences with various animals that he has treated, and his sense of humour makes for a fun read.  The author's name is Dr. David Perrin.  I highly recommend it.

[Gopher]

Sportsdude wrote:
 Went to the library near my house to check out any books on Canada.  They only had 2!!!

One was Pierre Trudeau's Memoirs and the other was a History of Canada.  God, was I pissed.  For a country that is in the same hemisphere as the US they should atleast have more than 2 books on the country other than travel guides.[/DIV]
 Very sad. However try looking in the fiction department. Anything by W.O.Mitchell is worthwhile - he won't tell you much of Canada's anatomy, but if you want a 'physiological' glance at prairie life in Saskatchewan you won't find better.  

[Future Canadian]

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[laststop]

  Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
  ~ Joseph Stalin
 
   

[weird al]

This book is freaking me out something fierce, mainly because it provides so much documentary backup for what we knew already. When I first started reading this thing, I thought, "Jeez, now I don't wanna go outside." As I read on, I started to feel uneasy about staying home as well. Six of one and half a dozen of the other. Probably  scariest of all is the complacency (and apathy) of governments, corporations and guinea pigs alike. Ah, whatever.

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[Adam_Fulford]

I highly recommend, "The World of the Short Story, 20th Century Collection," Selected & Edited by Clifton Fadiman.   Lots of fantastic short stories such as James Thurber's hilarious, "The Greatest Man in the World," Anibal Monteiro Machado's haunting "The Piano," and Margaret Atwood's creepy stalker tale, "The Man from Mars"  It's an amazing range of great tales that resonate in the mind like good songs.

[Adam_Fulford]

Lise wrote:
"Don't laugh but I hust read Harry Potter series and they're not bad. "[/DIV]
   [FONT color=#0000bf]They're very well-crafted, fast-paced stories.[/FONT]

[Adam_Fulford]

[A href="vny!://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm"]BARE-FACED MESSIAH -- a well-researched story about a great con-artist -- is always an entertaining read, and it is free online![/A]

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[P.C.]

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    Is your computer still running like molasses?  Mine is PAINFUL.....(only on DS though)

[weird al]

Here's a good one:

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  Great book. I'm about a third of the way through it. Twigger's a totally entertaining author. He's got a couple of other books out, one where he spends a year training with the Tokyo riot police. He seems to have a talent for getting himself into epic, grueling situations.

   I've got to pass on this anecdote, from one of his other books, concerning his grandfather, who had for a time been heavyweight boxing champ in the British Army. The old dude loved a good fight, but found it increasingly hard to get into one, since those who knew him knew what a tough opponent he was; and, after he retired, people were not inclined to get into a scrap with an old man.

 So he bought himself an ill-fitting, baggy suit, and began to frequent bars where nobody knew him. Before long, people would  start to make fun of him and his goofy-looking suit, one thing would lead to another, and

 the fight was on! (Which he invariably won)      

[kitten]

P.C. wrote:
 It be here, Kitten. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c007.gif" border=0]

    Is your computer still running like molasses?  Mine is PAINFUL.....(only on DS though)[/DIV]
   Thank you, P.C.  That's the one I tried to look for and failed.  Another bless for ya.

  It has speeded up some, but still not all that fast.  Earlier I was getting that "page cannot be displayed" notice when I tried to post.

[kitten]

Thank you, weird al,  I'll look for that in the library.  I shut down briefly to finish reading the comic fantasy book.  My next one will be by Mercedes Lackey, "Aerie"  It is one of a series written by her called The Dragon Jousters.  I've always liked her books.

[Russ]

kitten wrote:
 Thank you, weird al,  I'll look for that in the library.  I shut down briefly to finish reading the comic fantasy book.  My next one will be by Mercedes Lackey, "Aerie" It is one of a series written by her called The Dragon Jousters.  I've always liked her books.[/DIV]
 Shes a good author kitten, Ive read a few of hers. Have you tried Elizabeth Moon?

  Have you tried Anne McCaffrey? She does alot of Fantasy, but she does do some Sci Fi and has done a few with Elizabeth Moon which were pretty good.

  Ill make a list of some of the ones that I have on monday for you, Im preparing for camping this weekend.

[Lise]

Russ wrote:
 Have you tried Anne McCaffrey? She does alot of Fantasy, but she does do some Sci Fi and has done a few with Elizabeth Moon which were pretty good.

    I read one of Anne McCaffrey's book. Dragons of Pern or something like that. It was ok but I think I got lost trying to figure out who is who.

 

  I'm going to start reading this series. My husband is fanatical about Robert Jordan and the Wheel of Time series.