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Old 08-12-2009, 03:10 PM   #581
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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
And someone else we know needs to git her ownsef' busy and write the second installment in her detective series!
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Old 08-12-2009, 03:36 PM   #582
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Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends by William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron.
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Old 08-12-2009, 03:41 PM   #583
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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.
When was that published, honey? Reason I ask, that apocryphal old story has beer circulating around cigar BBs for years, and I wonder if Jodi started it or swiped it.
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Old 08-12-2009, 03:51 PM   #584
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When was that published, honey? Reason I ask, that apocryphal old story has beer circulating around cigar BBs for years, and I wonder if Jodi started it or swiped it.
This book has a copyright date of 2004. And yeah, I've heard the same "series of small fires" thing a few times as well.

My guess is Picoult is not as familiar with cigars and the story as we are. Still a cool find.
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Old 08-12-2009, 04:05 PM   #585
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Tks for the quick reply.
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Old 08-12-2009, 04:20 PM   #586
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And someone else we know needs to git her ownsef' busy and write the second installment in her detective series!
and what else are you reading??
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Old 08-12-2009, 04:35 PM   #587
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Just finished "Protect and Defend" by Vince Flynn.
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Old 08-13-2009, 09:02 PM   #588
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Just started Term Limits by Vince Flynn
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Old 08-13-2009, 09:20 PM   #589
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I'm reading Brave New World by Huxley... great book so far.



Has anyone read "The House of Cards" (about the wall street collapse?)
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Old 08-13-2009, 09:58 PM   #590
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Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends by William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron.
how is this one?

I'm currently reading Band of Brothers
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Old 08-14-2009, 12:26 PM   #591
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Has anyone read "The House of Cards" (about the wall street collapse?)
Haven't read it but I want to
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Old 08-14-2009, 11:16 PM   #592
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Old 08-23-2009, 08:54 PM   #593
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Just started Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It was time for fiction and I've wanted to read this for a long time. Avoided it until now because it seemed a major commitment ... 1000+ pages ... sort of like staring down the barrel of War and Peace.
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Old 08-26-2009, 08:44 AM   #594
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"Somebody's Got to Say it..."
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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz.
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Lisey's Story by Stephen King.
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Old 08-31-2009, 01:12 AM   #597
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"The Spartans: The World of The Warrior-Heroes Of Ancient Greece" By Paul Cartledge
I've read many books on ancient Greece, but this one is about to top my list!!
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The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel and A bold fresh piece of humanity by Bill O'Reilly
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Patriots by James Wesley Rawles
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Finished confederates in the Attic by Horwitz-great book. Now i am reading the first book of the Dresden Files by Butcher.
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