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jinx'sboy Member
Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 930 | TRs | Pics Location: on a great circle route |
My two best reads for the last year:
'Cutting for Stone' by Abraham Verghese.....wonderful writing about a family saga - in context of early 20th century medicine Ethiopa - and then the US. Some of the best narrative I have ever read....
'Empire' by Niall Ferguson. Good history of British Colonial rule and how it translates to todays politics....
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Jumble Jowls Member
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 305 | TRs | Pics Location: now here |
Currently reading:
Only One Year, by Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalina).
This is Joseph Stalin's daughter (1926-2011). She writes of her decision to defect to the United States during a visit to India in 1967. She tells why she decided not to return to the Soviet Union, and her memories of her father and the brutal regime he ran in the USSR.
And she describes how she left the Soviet Embassy in Delhi two days before she was due to fly back to Moscow, taking a cab to the American Embassy, which flew her to Italy the same night and then to Switzerland that next day, before being granted entry to the United States.
http://www.amazon.com/Only-One-Year-Svetlana-Alliluyeva/dp/0060101024/ref=pd_sim_b_2/192-5919523-5497331
It's probably in your library or available through ILL. Check it out.
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
Phil wrote: | The Angry Hiker wrote: | World Made By Hand, |
Nice one, weird one. I enjoyed the follow-up more:
Witch of Hebron |
Just finished that one, too. They're both great books. I hope he writes more.
I also just completed One Second After by William Forstchen.
And with that, I think I'm done with post-apocalypse fiction for a while.
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Flower Sniffer Sniffer of flowers
Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 977 | TRs | Pics Location: Snohomish, WA |
Chainsaw_Willie Wrote:
Quote: | That's a cool name, and not very common. How old is he now? |
He's 16. I gave him a more generic middle name, thinking that if Corwin was too weird, he could use that. I am happy to report that he quite likes his name!
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
Summer of the Apocalypse, by James Van Pelt
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Phil Member
Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 2025 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline, WA |
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:36 am
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The Angry Hiker wrote: | I also just completed One Second After by William Forstchen. |
Funny ... I just started that. Pretty cheesy but I'm getting into it anyway.
These apocalypse books make me think about turning my crawlspace into a bunker.
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
I've started collecting bottlecaps and bobbleheads.
This will probably be the last doomsday novel for a while. I had a bunch on reserve at the library and they all arrived at around the same time.
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
The White Plague by Frank Herbert
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
No Easy Hope. Surviving the Dead book one.
-James N Cook
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Jumble Jowls Member
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 305 | TRs | Pics Location: now here |
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Toni Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 829 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
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Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:52 pm
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on hold...looking forward to reading this one.
edit: I really enjoyed her book signing/reading at Third Place Books last Friday eve. 3/23.
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
Hers was a desire only a tenured MIT professor could satisfy...
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Chief Joseph Member
Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 7703 | TRs | Pics Location: Verlot-Priest Lake |
The second death of George Mallory, by Reinhold Meissner.
Mostly a historical account with the majority of the book being Mallory's journal entries. Kind of dry, yet interesting.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
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Phil Member
Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 2025 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline, WA |
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Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:16 pm
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