| 201. Author: tailgater | Date: Mon, 1/25/2016, 1:10PM EST | |
8trackdisco wrote:The Devil's Punchbowl -Greg Iles.
Murder and mayhem in Nachez Mississippi. Is that another Penn Cage novel, or something completely different? |
| 202. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Wed, 1/27/2016, 7:20PM EST | |
tailgater wrote:Is that another Penn Cage novel, or something completely different? Penn Cage. Not bad, but no Turning Angel or Quiet Game. |
| 203. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Thu, 2/18/2016, 7:26PM EST | |
Killing Floor- Lee Child.
Saw dkeage read one of Child's books.
I understand I'm 15 years late to the party, but happy I arrived. |
| 204. Author: jjanecka | Date: Thu, 2/18/2016, 7:39PM EST | |
Tubgirl the novel |
| 205. Author: dkeage | Date: Thu, 2/18/2016, 8:28PM EST | |
8trackdisco wrote:Killing Floor- Lee Child.
Saw dkeage read one of Child's books.
I understand I'm 15 years late to the party, but happy I arrived. Tom Cruise is NOT Jack Reacher.....  |
| 206. Author: delta1 | Date: Thu, 2/18/2016, 8:51PM EST | |
haha...about a foot too short and 80 lbs too little...
Just finished Jeffrey Deaver's "Talking in Tongues" and James Michener's "Caribbean" |
| 207. Author: riverdog | Date: Fri, 2/19/2016, 7:41AM EST | |
dkeage wrote:Tom Cruise is NOT Jack Reacher..... Chugodatrite!!! Currently finishing up Pierce Brown's "Red Rising" Trilogy, last book "Morning Star". Outstanding sci-fi or dystopian or whatever they are calling them these days. Definitely written for adults.  |
| 208. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Fri, 2/19/2016, 8:13AM EST | |
dkeage wrote:Tom Cruise is NOT Jack Reacher..... 6'5" 5'9".... What's the difference? Answer- a whole lot. |
| 209. Author: frankj1 | Date: Fri, 2/19/2016, 8:44AM EST | |
still slogging through Dark Tide, but it's slow as molasses...in February |
| 210. Author: Carib1 | Date: Fri, 2/19/2016, 9:12AM EST | |
Just finished reading Stop The Coming Civil War by Michael Savage and in the middle of reading his most recent book
Government Zero.
I don't agree with everything this guy says but If you think this POS POTUS is ruining this country on purpose you
would be correct.
Also in the middle of reading the Game of Thrones books and The Walking Dead graphic novels.... |
| 211. Author: moonman | Date: Fri, 2/19/2016, 10:22PM EST | |
Penthouse forum |
| 212. Author: tamapatom | Date: Fri, 2/19/2016, 11:04PM EST | |
Reading posts by MACS so to improves my spellings and gramer to me. |
| 213. Author: frankj1 | Date: Fri, 2/19/2016, 11:15PM EST | |
who learned you English? |
| 214. Author: MACS | Date: Fri, 2/19/2016, 11:18PM EST | |
tamapatom wrote:Reading posts by MACS so to improves my spellings and gramer to me. You should probably just read more books. Or maybe this one: http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/revising-and-editing/spelling-and-grammar/ |
| 215. Author: frankj1 | Date: Fri, 2/19/2016, 11:18PM EST | |
Don't be askeered of MACS in English class. He's from Rhode Island. Residents of RI say such things as "throw me down the stairs my hat". |
| 216. Author: tamapatom | Date: Sat, 2/20/2016, 10:10AM EST | |
frankj1 wrote:Don't be askeered of MACS in English class. He's from Rhode Island. Residents of RI say such things as "throw me down the stairs my hat". Not afraida no swamp yankee.....fuggetaboutit! |
| 217. Author: delta1 | Date: Sat, 2/20/2016, 3:58PM EST | |
MACS is really a great guy...really... |
| 218. Author: MACS | Date: Sat, 2/20/2016, 4:57PM EST | |
tamapatom wrote:Not afraida no swamp yankee.....fuggetaboutit! Swamp Yankee - ain't heard that since I was a youngster. While it may have been used in the pejorative, I'll take it as a compliment.  |
| 219. Author: tamapatom | Date: Sat, 2/20/2016, 7:09PM EST | |
MACS wrote:Swamp Yankee - ain't heard that since I was a youngster. While it may have been used in the pejorative, I'll take it as a compliment. As intended.......call me a cracker and we're even. |
| 220. Author: Numismaniac | Date: Sat, 2/20/2016, 7:56PM EST | |
These goofy threads! |
| 221. Author: Brewha | Date: Sun, 2/21/2016, 1:26PM EST | |
Ittsy Bittsy Spider, by X.
Still trying to grasp it's full meaning. I may have to read it again.... |
| 222. Author: zerohourhero | Date: Sun, 2/21/2016, 1:48PM EST | |
Armada by Ernest Cline |
| 223. Author: itsawaldo | Date: Sun, 2/21/2016, 4:33PM EST | |
Brewha wrote:Ittsy Bittsy Spider, by X.
Still trying to grasp it's full meaning. I may have to read it again.... I have a copy of the condensed version with authors notes if you'd like to borrow it. |
| 224. Author: moonman | Date: Fri, 3/4/2016, 5:20PM EST | |
I just finished reading "Instinct" by T.D. Jakes & "Primary Greatness" by Steven Covey. I am headed to the library for my next book. I have never been hooked on books but man O man has that changed. I traded in clouding my brain for enlightening it. |
| 225. Author: frankj1 | Date: Fri, 3/4/2016, 7:12PM EST | |
moonman wrote:I just finished reading "Instinct" by T.D. Jakes & "Primary Greatness" by Steven Covey. I am headed to the library for my next book. I have never been hooked on books but man O man has that changed. I traded in clouding my brain for enlightening it. um...huh? oh, yeah. got it. wait, wait. maybe not. |
| 226. Author: lluvia | Date: Sat, 3/12/2016, 2:51PM EST | |
Just finished "The Playboy of the Western World" - John M. Synge
Just started "Spreading the News" - Lady Gregory |
| 227. Author: DrafterX | Date: Sat, 3/12/2016, 4:02PM EST | |
Lluvia..!!  |
| 228. Author: delta1 | Date: Sat, 3/12/2016, 6:25PM EST | |
I am really pissed...just finished Michael Lewis's "The Big Short". Can't believe none of those idiots on Wall Street are in jail... |
| 229. Author: frankj1 | Date: Sat, 3/12/2016, 6:39PM EST | |
delta1 wrote:I am really pissed...just finished Michael Lewis's "The Big Short". Can't believe none of those idiots on Wall Street are in jail... did ya see the movie yet? I liked it. and I can believe none are in jail. |
| 230. Author: DBIII | Date: Mon, 3/14/2016, 11:30AM EST | |
Reading Treasure Island to my boy, he will at least know the classics. |
| 231. Author: delta1 | Date: Mon, 3/14/2016, 1:29PM EST | |
frankj1 wrote:did ya see the movie yet? I liked it.
and I can believe none are in jail. Just confirmed my worst fear...the average Joe has no protection from the destructive greed of the actual controllers of money and power: they say f u and we say thank you... I read the movie is much more light-hearted than the prose...maybe I should've seen it first, but then I may have missed the author's true insight and intent... |
| 232. Author: frankj1 | Date: Mon, 3/14/2016, 7:11PM EST | |
delta1 wrote:Just confirmed my worst fear...the average Joe has no protection from the destructive greed of the actual controllers of money and power: they say f u and we say thank you...
I read the movie is much more light-hearted than the prose...maybe I should've seen it first, but then I may have missed the author's true insight and intent...
I'm thinking you are correct. |
| 233. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Mon, 3/14/2016, 8:39PM EST | |
delta1 wrote:I am really pissed...just finished Michael Lewis's "The Big Short". Can't believe none of those idiots on Wall Street are in jail... Iffn' you wanna be pissed read "Dark Money" I read The Big Short but didn't like the movie much. DED |
| 234. Author: riverdog | Date: Mon, 3/28/2016, 2:49PM EST | |
For those of you who are Jim Harrison fans, he died Saturday at 78 years of age at home in Patagonia, Arizona. Helluva author, helluva guy. |
| 235. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Mon, 3/28/2016, 5:00PM EST | |
Deal Breaker- Harlan Coben. |
| 236. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Wed, 4/27/2016, 7:29PM EST | |
8trackdisco wrote:Deal Breaker- Harlan Coben. After reading Greg Iles and Lee Child books, this Coben offering is soft boiled. Guess it was his first book, so I shouldn't be too judgy. |
| 237. Author: delta1 | Date: Wed, 4/27/2016, 8:17PM EST | |
I Am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes. About half way through... great first book, complex with a lot of subplots and back stories, combining crime investigation with black ops, terrorism and spies. |
| 238. Author: frankj1 | Date: Wed, 4/27/2016, 9:41PM EST | |
delta1 wrote:I Am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes. About half way through... great first book, complex with a lot of subplots and back stories, combining crime investigation with black ops, terrorism and spies. ah, the biography of Mr. Jones? Jones. i apologize. you know I love you. |
| 239. Author: delta1 | Date: Wed, 4/27/2016, 11:22PM EST | |
Careful frank...he can find you...but if Mr. Jones is anything like the hero, he's got more important things on his mind... |
| 240. Author: Synthetic Sky | Date: Sat, 4/30/2016, 7:11AM EST | |
"The Repair and Restoration of Wood Panel Paintings", various authors. |
| 241. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Wed, 5/25/2016, 11:28PM EST | |
Finishing up The Racketeer by John Grisham.
Have read four or five of his books. This is the least of them so far. |
| 242. Author: riverdog | Date: Thu, 5/26/2016, 6:47AM EST | |
"The Redbreast", Volume three of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series (yeah that's really the characters name) :-) |
| 243. Author: delta1 | Date: Thu, 5/26/2016, 4:46PM EST | |
I read The Snowman, a Harry Hole novel by Nesbo a couple of years ago...good read.
Just finished Genghis Khan, by Jack Weatherford. Author is an anthropology professor at a university in Minnesota. He makes a case that Khan's empire, which connected and blended the best of cultures in China, India, Europe and the middle East, was the most influential event leading to the modern world. |
| 244. Author: MACS | Date: Thu, 5/26/2016, 5:01PM EST | |
Wake up to Hope - Joel Osteen
Daily devotional type deal. |
| 245. Author: riverdog | Date: Thu, 5/26/2016, 5:53PM EST | |
delta1 wrote:I read The Snowman, a Harry Hole novel by Nesbo a couple of years ago...good read. . Yeah, I picked up a Nesbo book, "The Son", on vacation and have enjoyed everything of his I've read. Can never have too many authors I like. Seems my favorites keep dying on me. |
| 246. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Mon, 7/4/2016, 7:56PM EST | |
Die Trying- Lee Child.
I nearly died Trying to finish it.
It was as bad as his first book was good.
Onto something non-fiction. |
| 247. Author: dkeage | Date: Tue, 7/5/2016, 7:21PM EST | |
Redemption Road. John Hart. The second book of his I've read. I will read others.. |
| 248. Author: riverdog | Date: Wed, 7/6/2016, 12:28PM EST | |
Jo Nesbo - "Nemesis" |
| 249. Author: delta1 | Date: Wed, 7/6/2016, 2:07PM EST | |
8trackdisco wrote:Die Trying- Lee Child.
I nearly died Trying to finish it.
It was as bad as his first book was good.
Onto something non-fiction. Yah, the latest Jack Reacher novels I've read: Make Me and Worth Dying For, were less satisfying than his earlier ones. |
| 250. Author: riverdog | Date: Wed, 7/6/2016, 8:22PM EST | |
delta1 wrote:Yah, the latest Jack Reacher novels I've read: Make Me and Worth Dying For, were less satisfying than his earlier ones.
Yup, Nesbo has been getting my time when I'm in the mood for crime drama. |
