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Just finished reading the Louis L'Amour book "The Proving Trail"...


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Reading Interview with the Vampire for the third time. I'd forgotten just how much Louis disliked Lestat.


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I've finished two non-fictions, which I don't usually read. "The San Bernardino's" and "The San Jacinto's" about a the human history of a pair of mountain ranges in Southern California forming a Pass that was one of the best East/West traverses between the coast and the rest of the Southwestern United States.

Also read two Louis L'Amour books... "Where the Long Grass Grows" and "Hanging Woman Creek".

Starting on a book that I haven't read for 20 or 30 years. An Ed McBain novel about the fictitious 87th Precinct of New York titled "The Last Dance". McBain also writes another series of books under another name, Evan Hunter, and was also the author of the book "Blackboard Jungle" which was made into a hit movie.
He also wrote the screenplay for "The Birds"...


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Re-read "Acrna's World" by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and another of my Louis L'Amour westerns, "The Rider of Lost Creek"...

Starting on the "Fruits Basket" manga again...


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"Unfit for Command" John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corse.
Swift Boat Veterans speak out against John Kerry. Part of which was the awarding of three unearned Purple Hearts permitting him to leave Vietnam after only 4 months of his year long assignment.



"Lonigan" a book of short stories by Louis L'Amour...



When I done with this one, I'll be starting on "Spies and Commandos" by Kenneth Conboy and Dale Andrade.

How America lost the secret war in North Vietnam.cccCC


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Still reading 'Spies and Commandos' off and on...

Finished 'Second Watch' today... A J.P. Beaumont Novel, A Seattle Police officer. A portion near the end brought none stop tears to my eyes about a Vietnam Veteran's death...


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Reading "Longshot" by English horse racing mystery author, Dick Francis.


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Got a book from a bookrack this afternoon and just now finished it.

"10-lb Penalty" by Dick Francis, a prolific writer of British horse racing mysteries... I enjoyed every word of it...


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Reading "Code Talker" by Chester Nez, a memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII... Quite an interesting read... It starts with his early childhood on the Navajo Reservation, which covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, bordering Colorado. Some of his trials while attending (forcibly) boarding school, but where he learned his English. It goes on with his enlistment in the US Marines and the forming of the original 29 'code talkers' and his service during the Guadacanal fighting in the South Pacific. This is as far as I have gotten in the book at this time, but I am enjoying it... One of the few non-fiction books that I have read recently...


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So many children's books. Dr Seuss is pretty amazing and crazy. I wonder what he was like personally because his books are such a ride.


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Did you ever use a Flit insect spray? He wrote and drew many Flit advertisements... I believe that this was before his books, but the characters looked the same style...


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I a reading a book by Arthur C. Clarke, "The Lost Worlds of 2001", telling about the making of '2001: A Space Odyssy' and working with Stanley Kubrick and others with parts of his novel, which was written at the same time as the movie was being made with back-and-forth script and novel changes...

Then I received the 14th edition of "Yotsuba" in the mail and immediately stopped work that I was doing and started reading the manga. I live this series as it reminds me of the raising of my own daughter, albeit with differences...


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This month alone (so far)... I have read five books by Louis L'Amour...

Borden Chantry
The High Graders
Westward the Tide
Chancy
and
The Quick and the Dead...


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Read "Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern" by Anne McCaffrey this last week and started and finished "Californio's" by Louis L'Amour today...


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"Sea Stories -my life in special operations" by Admiral William H. McRaven... Stories of a US Navy Seal...


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Dang, it almost seems like I'm the only one posting in this thread...lol

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I just finished the fifth Louis L'Amour novel in the last aix days...

"The Burning Hills"
" Mustang Man"
"Galloway"
"The Warrior's Path"
"Brionne"

He writes a spellbinding novel and is an easy read...


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I have actually been reading a bit more lately, just not much in English. Right now I'm on the seventh Haruhi Suzumiya novel.


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I've just started reading (well, it's an audiobook, so listening to) The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. It seems like everyone at all interested in scifi has already read it, so I'm a bit late to the party. It's great so far -- grounded in hard science (there was clearly a lot of research into math, engineering, and astrophysics put into the writing of this book) and still very mysterious.
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I have actually been reading a bit more lately, just not much in English. Right now I'm on the seventh Haruhi Suzumiya novel.


Had you read the story before in English? If so, are you finding much difference between the English and the Japanese versions???


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I've just started reading (well, it's an audiobook, so listening to) The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. It seems like everyone at all interested in scifi has already read it, so I'm a bit late to the party. It's great so far -- grounded in hard science (there was clearly a lot of research into math, engineering, and astrophysics put into the writing of this book) and still very mysterious.


I will have to check it out... Hoping a Great New Year for you... I realize that things change over the years, but I wish that I was able to retgurn to the Japan that I knew back in 1966-67... when I was homeported in Yokosuka... I would catch a train and ride until I was somewhere that I had never been before and spent a lot of time talking, with my limited Japanese, to people on the Train's, Cafe's and Bar's and even met one young man (a whole year younger than me, lol) who became friends with me and his family invited my family (my step-dad was on my same ship and the whole family was there) to spend the weekend at their rice farm just outside of Tokyo...

It was an interesting weekend... AND I MISS IT ALL!!!


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