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Harp

I'll Lock Up
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Chicago, IL US
[QUOTE="Skeet" McD]... As you know, I'm quite a Joyce fanatic, Beckett less so, by a good deal....

"Skeet"[/QUOTE]


Beckett is a difficult Mick, not everyone's cuppa.
Pity Flann didn't stick around longer.
Leiyedh me Saragossa agur abair tu mo baruil. :)
 

BinkieBaumont

Rude Once Too Often
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"Biography of the right Hon Stephen Tenant"

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LocktownDog

Call Me a Cab
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Northern Nevada
billysmom said:
I've just about finished Douglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. Great TR biography concentrating on his conservation efforts from childhood on. It's a different perspective from the usual Kettle Hill, Panama Canal, Nobel Peace Prize stuff, although they all play a part.

Sue

It was an excellent read. Liked it very much.
 

CliffG

One of the Regulars
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Kansas USA
The Road

I recently finished a short book called The Road by Cormac McCarthy. it is tale of a journey taken by a father and his young boy over a period of several months, across the country blasted by what I took to be a nucular winter, I think they are making this into a movie to be released soon.
Cliff
 

mannySpaghetti

One of the Regulars
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Haverhill, MA
I read the pictures

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This book consists of mostly photos and speaks a little about the gang itself. Those were some tough guys there in Detroit, tough sociopathic guys.
 

dhermann1

I'll Lock Up
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9,154
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Da Bronx, NY, USA
"John Adams, Party of One" by James Grant. Just a wonderful portrait of an amazing, and endearing curmudgeon. Without John Adams we'd all still be speaking English!
 

Edward

Bartender
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I recently reread The Great Gatsby for, I think, the ninth time.... Quite a few years since I was introduced to it via studying the book for A-level. Still superb; my opinion remains that it is the finest novel in the English language. Other than that, the last few weeks' reading material has mostly been Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels (upon which the television series True Blood is loosely based). These bring something new and fresh to the genre while retaining a truer form (insomuch as such can be argued to exist) of the vampire legend than the Twilight books. I found the latter a pleasurable bit of fluff for reading on the tube, but Sookie and her chums are much more interesting from an adult perspective.
 

The Lonely Navigator

Practically Family
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The Grand Scuttle by Van der Vat - It's about the scuttling of the High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow at the end of WWI.

I've learned quite a bit reading this - I knew some small notable things, but this book certainly filled in some very large gaps.
 

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