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The Reciprocating Pump
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« Reply #551 on: November 29, 2012, 08:37:26 AM » |
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« Reply #552 on: November 29, 2012, 07:15:51 PM » |
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ginger star by brackett who wrote empire strikes back
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« Reply #553 on: December 06, 2012, 11:05:28 AM » |
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Just finished Blood Horses, by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Part memoir of his journalist father, and part an investigation into thoroughbred horse racing, especially around Kentucky. Sullivan is a super writer, so when he bounces from the '73 Belmont with Secretariat to the slaughter of 30,000 horses by retreating WWII Germans in the Crimea it is a seamless narrative. Just a really, really interesting read and a pleasure.
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« Reply #554 on: December 06, 2012, 06:45:33 PM » |
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« Reply #555 on: December 07, 2012, 09:39:58 AM » |
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« Reply #556 on: December 07, 2012, 09:55:12 AM » |
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Just finished Blood Horses, by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Part memoir of his journalist father, and part an investigation into thoroughbred horse racing, especially around Kentucky. Sullivan is a super writer, so when he bounces from the '73 Belmont with Secretariat to the slaughter of 30,000 horses by retreating WWII Germans in the Crimea it is a seamless narrative. Just a really, really interesting read and a pleasure.
In short, the horses are all drugged up to run when they cant anymore they are "put out to pasture to die" or slaughtered that's horse racing. |
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« Reply #557 on: December 07, 2012, 01:40:30 PM » |
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In short, the horses are all drugged up to run when they cant anymore they are "put out to pasture to die" or slaughtered that's horse racing.
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« Reply #558 on: December 07, 2012, 07:39:11 PM » |
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On a string of Bizarro fiction Looks cool, checking it out |
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« Reply #559 on: December 08, 2012, 06:35:07 PM » |
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the silkie ae van vogt
the guy who inspired star trek with his story the space beagle
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« Reply #560 on: December 08, 2012, 11:25:28 PM » |
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And God Laughs by Mr. Arthur Jones
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« Reply #561 on: December 09, 2012, 03:17:47 AM » |
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And God Laughs by Mr. Arthur Jones
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« Reply #562 on: December 09, 2012, 04:51:56 AM » |
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Principles of Hydraulics
Industrial Hydraulics
The Reciprocating Pump
and just for fun: The Valve Selection Handbook
but thats enough about your sex manuals : ) |
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« Reply #564 on: December 09, 2012, 08:35:22 AM » |
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« Reply #565 on: December 09, 2012, 03:27:48 PM » |
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i'm looking for more alternate history books. Any more recommendations? thanks!!
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« Reply #566 on: December 09, 2012, 10:05:13 PM » |
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Thanks for sharing garebear!  Now I know what books not to read. |
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« Reply #567 on: December 09, 2012, 10:49:37 PM » |
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i'm looking for more alternate history books. Any more recommendations? thanks!!
Check out Harry Turtledove's the Great War series. The Confederacy and Union fight to a stalemate and continue to fight through WW1 and finally settle all accounts in WW2. Awesome books.  |
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« Reply #568 on: December 10, 2012, 03:38:02 AM » |
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Thanks for sharing garebear! Now I know what books not to read. The list is growing, my friend. Don't paint yourself into a corner. But, worry not, I never read comics so your collection will remain safe. |
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« Reply #569 on: December 10, 2012, 01:58:27 PM » |
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i'm looking for more alternate history books. Any more recommendations? thanks!!
Lot of alternate history books deal with WWII - not sure if that is your speed. If it is, then Robert Harris' 'Fatherland' is a good place to start, or Len Deighton's SS-GB. If you like Philip Dick, check out his 'Man in the high Castle,' - it's aces. That Stephen King book about the Kennedy assassination is alternate history, if you like him. Philip Roth, who recently announced his retirement, wrote 'The Plot against America' where President Charles Lindbergh presides over America. More 'literary' would be Michael Chabon's 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.' I guess the grandaddy of all would be Orwell's '1984,' if only for the first line: 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' |
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« Reply #570 on: December 10, 2012, 02:16:55 PM » |
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The list is growing, my friend.
Don't paint yourself into a corner.
But, worry not, I never read comics so your collection will remain safe.
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« Reply #571 on: December 19, 2012, 08:57:39 AM » |
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Just finished Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
now reading Kant: A Biography by Manfred Kuehn
also rereading Sovereign Virtue by Ronald Dworkin
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« Reply #572 on: December 19, 2012, 10:18:31 AM » |
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Just finished Archangel by Robert Harris, who wrote the very excellent Fatherland, and Enigma. This one is about a dissolute academic who falls in with an unscrupulous tv reporter to find Stalin's long-lost son. Well-paced and plotted; the characters are well fleshed out, and the book is solidly written. But, for me, this has all been done before, and better. It just fell flat. If you need a good book to pass the time on a flight, then this is it. Looking for that extra something? Then give it a miss.
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« Reply #573 on: December 19, 2012, 10:42:08 AM » |
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The Marketing Agency Blueprint. Sometimes work gets in the way.....  Reading "Best Served Cold" at the moment, which is set in the same realm as The First Law trilogy. |
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« Reply #574 on: December 19, 2012, 11:34:35 AM » |
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