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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #625 on: January 29, 2013, 06:48:19 PM »
yea I think she signed on; but she said no one sent her any PMs lol.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #626 on: January 30, 2013, 07:23:47 AM »

...Just bought the new Stephen Hunter-The Third Bullet....love the Swagger series 8)



So far so good 8)

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #627 on: January 30, 2013, 07:59:33 AM »
Finished 'Green River Rising' by Tim Willocks. Pretty good story of a Texas max. sec. prison riot. Plot is cinematic, written well enough but it falls a bit apart with the characters. Our protagonist is a falsely incarcerated surgeon...right. The leader of the Blacks is a falsely incarcerated former boxing champ...right. The leader of the Whites is a POS lifer...ok, that reads true. And dotted throughout the book are various other cartoon-like actors, like the outsize killer who was befriended by our hero and later performs superhuman feats to allow the narrative to move forward. I think the book's strength and weakness is that the author is a Doctor (shrink) and he over-pronounces these archetypes in order to give us too much psychiatric info-dump. I get that prison is a good medium for examining man and his nature, but sometimes telling a story involves not lecturing. Anyway, while reading it I kept think of Eddie Bunker's two books, 'No Beast so Fierce' and 'The Animal Factory' - now, those are pretty good prison/crime books. Bunker was not only a career criminal but appeared in movies, notably Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs, so he's got all sorts of bona fides. I'd recommend his two books before this one.      

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #628 on: January 30, 2013, 02:36:41 PM »
Finished 'Green River Rising' by Tim Willocks. Pretty good story of a Texas max. sec. prison riot. Plot is cinematic, written well enough but it falls a bit apart with the characters. Our protagonist is a falsely incarcerated surgeon...right. The leader of the Blacks is a falsely incarcerated former boxing champ...right. The leader of the Whites is a POS lifer...ok, that reads true. And dotted throughout the book are various other cartoon-like actors, like the outsize killer who was befriended by our hero and later performs superhuman feats to allow the narrative to move forward. I think the book's strength and weakness is that the author is a Doctor (shrink) and he over-pronounces these archetypes in order to give us too much psychiatric info-dump. I get that prison is a good medium for examining man and his nature, but sometimes telling a story involves not lecturing. Anyway, while reading it I kept think of Eddie Bunker's two books, 'No Beast so Fierce' and 'The Animal Factory' - now, those are pretty good prison/crime books. Bunker was not only a career criminal but appeared in movies, notably Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs, so he's got all sorts of bona fides. I'd recommend his two books before this one.      
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #629 on: February 02, 2013, 08:00:28 AM »
Brad Taylor-Enemy of Mine.

...Just bought the new Stephen Hunter-The Third Bullet....love the Swagger series 8)
What'd you think of the movie? I'd not (and still have not) read any of the books, but I thought the movie was ok. Levon Helm (PIP) totally negating the annoying Michael Pena.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #630 on: February 02, 2013, 08:25:28 AM »
yea I think she signed on; but she said no one sent her any PMs lol.
Very discouraging to Shossy I assume, no pm's.

I am reading the Unabomber's Manifesto.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #631 on: February 04, 2013, 05:19:03 AM »
What'd you think of the movie? I'd not (and still have not) read any of the books, but I thought the movie was ok. Levon Helm (PIP) totally negating the annoying Michael Pena.

Movie was ok but typical where they totally change thing around.the book was really good.
Hunter knows how to build suspense and action without it being overboard or unrealistic.
type of author that when reading you cant put the book down.
I would suggest "Point of Impact" first then if you like you can go many ways.
Hunter has books about Bobby Lee Swagger and books about his father.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #632 on: February 05, 2013, 06:06:27 PM »
A Matter of Principle- by Ronald Dworkin

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #633 on: February 07, 2013, 02:00:47 AM »

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #634 on: February 07, 2013, 03:42:56 AM »

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #635 on: February 07, 2013, 11:18:39 AM »
Whats this like ? Interesting ?

Hell yeah, Albert Speer wrote this memoir while he was in Spandau Prison.

It's pretty cool to see all this stuff from an insiders point of view. 

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #636 on: February 08, 2013, 03:30:44 PM »
Whats this like ? Interesting ?
Absolutely! But Speer, being a smarty-type guy, weasels all-about, responsibility-wise. Creepy. Explains a (Nazi) lot.   

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #637 on: February 08, 2013, 03:37:14 PM »
Ozzie Smith biography.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #638 on: February 14, 2013, 12:09:30 PM »
George, Nicolas, and Wilhem: Three Royal Cousins and the road to World War One.

I'm reading this now, pretty interesting.

The letter where Wilhelm mentions his longing to be alone with his mother and her stroking him or something is briefly mentioned.  What in the hell was up with that? ???

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #639 on: February 15, 2013, 06:25:42 PM »
Pride and Prejudice- by Jane Austen

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #640 on: February 15, 2013, 07:49:32 PM »
Pose in Peace

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/feb/14/ronald-dworkin

I thought of posting that but I assumed nobody else on here knew who he was.

I've read almost all of his books.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #641 on: February 20, 2013, 07:43:58 AM »
Re-reading all the Stephen Hunter books about Bobby Lee Swagger.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #642 on: February 22, 2013, 07:01:21 AM »
Yeyyy,a sticky!

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #643 on: February 23, 2013, 09:17:06 AM »
Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution- by Ronald Dworkin

I'm glad this thread is now a sticky

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #644 on: February 25, 2013, 06:41:09 AM »
Re-reading "Point of Impact"

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #645 on: February 25, 2013, 08:59:22 AM »
Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution- by Ronald Dworkin

I'm glad this thread is now a sticky
I plead the 5th.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #646 on: February 26, 2013, 09:11:55 AM »


I'm not big on reading so I'm gonna try this. I like comic books a bit like Batman and stuff. Not big into school books or anything.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #647 on: March 04, 2013, 05:50:07 PM »
How to Win Friends and Influence People- by Dale Carnegie

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #648 on: March 04, 2013, 05:52:01 PM »
The Post Office, Charles Bukowski.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #649 on: March 06, 2013, 11:12:05 AM »
Just finished Timothy Egan's 'Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher.' Book details the life of Edward Curtis, who sacrificed his life to photograph the Native American tribes before they died out or were consumed by Western modernity. He's the guy who made that famous Chief Joseph pic. Well written, nicely paced, and as we follow Curtis on his quest we get an understanding of what drove this man to forgo all else in life to finish his project. His end was quite sad, but like a lot artists, his ultimate reward is his legacy, as it is ours. Recommended.