Anyone remember the monkey named Mohawk @ / near Westland mall?
Just curious.
Nasty little beast.
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Anyone remember the monkey named Mohawk @ / near Westland mall?
Just curious.
Nasty little beast.
NHP's are one the most dangerous 2 legged creatures a human would ever encounter. Throw in they can literally rip you limb from limb in a stand up no weapons match. I'd give them a wide berth if i had to.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickNorris
One of my favorite authors in the 60's through 80's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duman
Alistair MacLean wrote some of the old standards: The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, Breakheart Pass, River of Death, etc.
Santorini was his last novel, written in 1986 and he died in 1987, only 64 years old. The book was published by his estate after his death.
You got me wanting to find the old books and read them again. Want to see if they have the same excitement as they did when they first were written.
I have a copy of The Satan Bug, if you're interested.
Started reading "Not Enough Faith To Be An Athiest". Family member suggested it, something about questioning evolution.
Thanks for the offer. I first read it when it was published under his pseudonym "Ian Stuart".Quote:
Originally Posted by Duman
When it was published again under his real name, I bought it again. I got into it and thought it sounded very familiar.
That's when I learned he had published a couple of books using the name Ian Stuart.
I was going to try to find his non-fiction book Captain Cook.
A Gentleman In Moscow, by Amor Towles. I can't remember a book I've enjoyed more in quite some time.
Re: Curios George...I had the opportunity to look at one of them again a while back. Wow, not nearly as exciting as I remember. Beat the heck out of the Dick an Jane series, though. "See Dick, see Dick run." Pretty heady stuff.
"Tiamat's Wrath" the latest "Expanse" series installment.
Any body here read any of the Long Lonely Road series or any others by TJ Reeder?
I read the early ones. Enjoyed first half dozen or so. Good story teller, not very good writer. Modern version of dime store novels. Cheap quick entertainment. Never felt I got cheated out of my buck or hour time to read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ripper
He was a very poor writer in the beginning, but a great storyteller. His writing is still quirky but is a lot better, (there are like 76 LLRs now). He has also done a few other series like Intended Consequences, Mean Streets and Sex, guns and rock and roll. Still good quick entertainment. He's on my auto buy list. Just plain like his stuff.
Well, I have just about all of the Jack Reacher paperback books, looking to trade them for other books.
Primarily interested in quality detective stories, I would like to get a collection of Raymond Chandler, Patterson's Alex Cross, maybe some decent SiFi (I have already read all of Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, Anderson, etc.), looking for recent authors of quality reading.
PM me, can meet in NoCO area almost anytime.
Thanks for looking.
Currently working my way through the Sherlock Homes catalog.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing holds up a lot better than most writers of his era.
I just started reading How to Win Friends and Influence People. I should have read this years ago.
I have the hardbound "The Annotated Sherlock Holmes Collection", from the early 80's. Two huge volumes. One of the most prized collections in my library. Many people have read from those volumes in the last 35+ years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin
Doyle's writing holds up better than most writers of any era.
Like Justin I have been revisiting classic stories from long ago. The Mars stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Have always been a fan of the John Carter character and amazed at how ERB explained "advanced" technology before there was advanced technology.
Also the inspiration for the drawing in MrAK's avatar.
Indeed, it warms my heart that you recognized my avatar. The Warlord of Mars series has been a favorite of mine since childhood, and has been reread a handful of times. I’ve even received a tattoo of Deja Thoris as painted by Frank Frazetta.Quote:
Originally Posted by buffalobo
Certainly a perfect subject for Frazetta.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrAK
My middle name is Baskerville, as in The Hound of the Baskervilles. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by buffalobo
I would recommend the Edmund Rostand translation of Cyrano De Bergerac to everyone. Just beautiful.
-John
Fantasy series by Joel Shepard "Sasha". Another by Robert Kroese Brand of the Warlock.
Final entry in Monster Hunter Memoirs series, "Saints". Written by Johnny Ringo and edited by Larry Correa.
Just finished The Oracle, just started Wine & War
Stephen King’s “The Institute”.
Yay Amazon.
I'll be reading this:
They should have made the font smaller so it looked further away.
I feel like Litz missed the opportunity for an epic cover.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickNorris
Here’s my submission.
Attachment 79784
I see what you did there.
Sous Vide for Everybody by America's Test Kitchen
Lights Out by Ted Koppel
Or put some powder burns on the target.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Started reading 'Revolt of the Masses' by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Written ~1932. Makes Orwell look like an amateur psychic. Pretty scary stuff, history repeating itself.
Just finished ?The Man Who Got Even With God?, by Fr. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O.(Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance), about John Green Hanning, aka Br. Joachim. He was a Trappist monk in Kentucky who had run away from home due to a hot temper. He burned down his father?s tobacco curing barn with the year?s crop in it, and after 9 years as a cowboy near the Rio Grande went home to Kentucky. The story will amaze and convict.
Hmm, interesting, I'll have to look it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duman
I finished Robert Crais', "A Dangerous Man", a Joe Pike novel. I've read most of Robert Crais books. Always good, easy reading, fast action detective stories.
Just finished Stephen Hunter's Gman, good read but I have enjoyed all of his books.
Eta: thinking about starting the Puzo collection over again.
Report from Engine Company 82
Written by a NYC firefighter from the 60s-70s, back when they used to hang on the back of the truck, had the bell system, pull boxes, the bronx was burning, everyone was OD'ing
It's an excellent quick read, almost a master class on how to stay cool under chaos and keep a sense of humor.
I’m on the wait list at the library for CJ Box’s Open Season. Recommended to me by a friend I introduced to the Longmire books and series.
https://www.amazon.com/Commune-Compl...s%2C373&sr=8-1
I read the Forward and was like . Oh no, i'm not too sure this will be a good read. Based on the hug fest within
With that said. I started reading this 4 book complication around 11 one night. At 3 in the a.m. i had a hard time putting this one aside. Some parts wander a bit, but overall a good read.
Book 1 was written in 2017.
I say give it a try.
The guy knowledge of firearms , and or his outside sources are on it. There's even mention of (not by name) someone, few all of you will know, one way or the other. As well as places along the front range, everyone will say . Oh yeah i know that area..
I've been reading some of "The Culture" sci fi novels by Iain M. Banks. Interesting stuff from the far future. I'm about halfway through "Look To Windward".
The Commune, which Great-Kazoo mentioned in the post above mine was only $0.99 at the Kindle store, so I went ahead and bought it - will get around to reading it soon.
check that price, it's free with prime.Quote:
Originally Posted by Circuits
Just finished The Hunting Rifle by Jack O'Connor. It seemed fitting to read it right before hunting season.