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• May 3, 2014

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Touchofevil

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Diamondback said:

The most tolerable things about it were Jennifer Garner's, er, "assets" and the fact that whichever side the character he plays is on Ving Rhames does the tough-guy role SOOO well.

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I did not see much of either as it was not long after seeing Affleck in the Daredevil costume that I lost interest. That costume was one of the worst I had seen in quite some time.

 

• May 5, 2014

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Touchofevil

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From 1956, Ed Lacy's "The Men from the Boys."

 

• May 6, 2014

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Feraud

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Thanks to good reviews from fellow Loungers I purchased a copy of The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat. Am looking forward to reading it.

 

• May 7, 2014

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LuvMyMan

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Just started to read "The Haj" Leon Uris. I find most of the books by Mr. Uris very interesting as to plots and the time of history most of his books are written in. The movie, "Exodus" was based upon one of his books and that movie is still one of my all time favorites.

 

• May 7, 2014

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Miss Golightly

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Chéri by Colette

 

• May 7, 2014

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LizzieMaine

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"Poetic Works of Robert Burns," an 1856 edition found at the local Goodwill for $1.99. "Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!"

 

• May 8, 2014

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Harp

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Miss Golightly said:

Chéri by Colette

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Cupid's hourglass of lost opportunity.

 

• May 8, 2014

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Miss Golightly

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Harp said:

Cupid's hourglass of lost opportunity.

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I've only just started it but really enjoying it (I saw the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer ages ago so can't really remember what exactly happens but seem to remember the ending not being the happiest ) - I have the follow up book also "The Last of Chéri" which I'll read after.

 

• May 9, 2014

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DNO

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Feraud said:

Thanks to good reviews from fellow Loungers I purchased a copy of The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat. Am looking forward to reading it.

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One of my favourites. If you enjoy it, try Three Corvettes by the same author. The Tribe that Lost its Head, also by Monsarrat, is a good read as well (totally different subject matter, however).

 

• May 9, 2014

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vintage.vendeuse

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Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal. Quite enjoyable!

 

• May 9, 2014

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Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber (2010)

 

• May 9, 2014

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Atomic

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Letters of a Stoic by Seneca

 

• May 9, 2014

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Smithy

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"Spitfire Saga: Bind 1 & Bind 2 (Volumes 1 & 2)" by Cato Guhnfeldt - in Norwegian. The first two books of Guhnfeldt's histories of 331 and 332 Sqns, the two Norwegian Spitfire squadrons under RAF administration during WWII. Quite simply the most incredible level of research I have ever seen for a WWII subject (there will be 6 volumes in total with each book 400+ pages). Absolutely amazing.

 

• May 10, 2014

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The Fair Tax Book by Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder

CCJ

 

• May 10, 2014

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HadleyH

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"It was sauce and vinegar and eau de cologne and sour mash whiskey and gin and smoke and perfume and silk and neon and skinny lapels and tail fins and rockets to the sky.

It was the ultimate spasm of traditional showbiz - both the last and the most of its kind.


It was the Rat Pack. It was beautiful."


Rat Pack Confidential by Shawn Levy... I might read this book next, I don't know yet...the murder of the Tzar and family haunts me still...very much.

 

• May 10, 2014

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KILO NOVEMBER

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Yesterday evening I went to an author appearance book signing with Philip Kerr. While his latest number isn't one of them, I cannot recommend too highly his series (9) of detective novels featuring Bernie Gunther, once of the the Berlin Kripo, who quit and went into private practice when the National Socialists corrupted the police. A good place to start is Berlin Noir, his first three Bernie Gunther books bound in one volume.

The new one features an FBI agent from Houston, investigating terrorist plots. It's called Prayer , and I expect to start it within a few days.

 

• May 10, 2014

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Retro Spectator

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I am reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. This book is very useful, because it tells you how to talk to people without annoying them.

 

• May 10, 2014

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hatguy1

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Very interesting.


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• May 11, 2014

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LizzieMaine

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"Brave New World Revisited," Aldous Huxley's 1958 return to the themes he treated in his well-known dystopian novel in 1931. This book, however, is nonfiction -- showing how much of what he had predicted was being carried out in the excesses of postwar consumer culture. Huxley was a prominent critic of the Boys From Marketing, and spares no blows in his indictment of "motivational research" and other methods used to push unnecessary consumption on the masses.

Huxley concludes that he had always expected much of "Brave New World" to come true, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly. He was very fortunate not to have lived into the 21st Century.

 

• May 11, 2014

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St. Louis

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I'll have to find that one. It'll help me to explain my eccentric way of life (can't stand the word "lifestyle") to my anxious family back east.

Actually, Huxley's Perennial Philosophy has been a tremendous influence on my life. I should put that one on my "to read again" list next.

Right now I'm reading Helga's Diary, a somewhat heavily edited diary by a young girl who survived Auschwitz. It's deeply moving, but it takes some getting used to the fact that Helga rewrote and revised so much of this diary in her later life.