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Old 08-01-2009, 08:56 PM   #561
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Old 08-02-2009, 01:08 AM   #562
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Old 08-02-2009, 01:25 PM   #563
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Old 08-05-2009, 05:27 PM   #564
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Just started The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam. Have always been a Halberstam fan and this was his last book before he was killed. Was never reeally a student of the Korean War and couldn't think of anyone who could tell the story as well as him. This one has been on my list for a while.
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Old 08-05-2009, 06:59 PM   #565
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Just started The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam. Have always been a Halberstam fan and this was his last book before he was killed. Was never reeally a student of the Korean War and couldn't think of anyone who could tell the story as well as him. This one has been on my list for a while.
I am reading his book The Fifties-very good, well researched. A bit more about the Cold War than I wanted to read, though. I am sure something else was going on besides that-but I am only half way through it.
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Old 08-05-2009, 08:47 PM   #566
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Old 08-06-2009, 10:24 AM   #567
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Today I start Sacred by Dennis Lehane.
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Old 08-06-2009, 11:05 AM   #568
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I have been reading the entire Daniel Silva series this summer, right now I am reading The Messenger

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Old 08-06-2009, 02:32 PM   #569
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Old 08-11-2009, 08:52 AM   #572
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Some of you avid readers may find this pass interesting.

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I am reading his book The Fifties-very good, well researched. A bit more about the Cold War than I wanted to read, though. I am sure something else was going on besides that-but I am only half way through it.
Halberstam definitely has a political point of view. I think he overplays it and I'm not sure that I agree with his political premise in the first place. I'm nearly 300 pages into The Coldest Winter and he really hasn't written much about the war. But, I've read plenty about how MacArthur was a dork and Dean Acheson was the savior of the free world.

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I have a couple books going simultaneously:

Glenn Beck's Common Sense, inspired by Thomas Paine (a quick read)
The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castenada (never read Castenada before, decided to start this a few weeks ago at the beach)
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Just finished The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. Classic noir.
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Old 08-11-2009, 04:02 PM   #576
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Glenn Beck's Common Sense, inspired by Thomas Paine (a quick read)
The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castenada (never read Castenada before, decided to start this a few weeks ago at the beach)
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear (seriously complex scifi)
Castenada was a bit of a fraud, but this is an interesting read (the best I recall from decades in the past). I have heard - nota bene - I have heard, this is even a better read if the reader's also on peyote.
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Finished Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane. Last of the Kenzie/Gennaro series. Now I guess I read Shutter Island. He needs to write faster...lol
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Old 08-12-2009, 11:06 AM   #579
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Cool cigar mention in My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, en iTouch...
“So the guy bought a case of expensive cigars,” he says, “and had them insured against fire for $15,000. Next thing you know, the insurance company gets a claim, saying all the cigars were lost in a series of small fires.”

“He smoked them?” I say, washing the soap out of Jesse’s hair.
Brian leans against the threshold of the door.

“Yeah. But the judge ruled that the company guaranteed the cigars as insurable against fire, without defining acceptable fire.”…

"So who subpoenaed you?” I ask Brian. “The defendant?”

“The prosecution. The insurance company paid out the money, and then had him arrested for twenty-four counts of arson.”…

“The judge threw out the case, right?”

“The judge sentenced him to twenty-four consecutive one-year terms,” Brian says.
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