I thought this WAS the STORY?
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...bravo, bravo!!....Yes! THat means I made him laugh!!!!
LMAO.....TWSS!!!!!!
It's Dancing at the Rascal Fair, ya big goof. No 'slow' in there anywhere.I am looking for book suggestions based on the works of James Fennimore Cooper or books about American pioneers/fur-trading and Native American relations. I have recently started watching a new Netflix series called Frontier and realized I knew precious little about this time period.
I loved Undaunted Courage, about Lewis and Clark, but I am seeking fiction titles only. Thanks in advance. I will be checking Amazon later or Goodreads but sometimes asking other resourceful readers has its advantages.
I plan on reading Ken Follet's Fall of Giants and the Lonesome Dove quartet very soon. Come to think of it my TBR list is ever expanding. danie told me about Slow Dancing at the Rascal Fair and I still haven't been to the library to order a copy.
Get thee to a library; you will love the book.
I like my way better.It's Dancing at the Rascal Fair, ya big goof. No 'slow' in there anywhere.
Get thee to a library; you will love the book.
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
I have decided to rectify the outcry of "what? You've never read or seen the shawshank redemption?" whenever someone asks me about it.
I am reading The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs by Matthew Dicks; it's a story of how bullying in teen years can have lasting effect. Also reading Evanovich's Turbo-Twenty Three. Waiting for me at the library is Little Heaven by Nick Cutter and Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance.
Read first, and let us know your thoughts about it.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I agree - read the short story first "Rita Hayward and the Shawshank Redemption" then watch the movie
I'm juggling The Bazaar of Bad Dreams now with a re-read of Kinky Friedman's Armadillos & Old Lace ... funny, in some ways Muskrat reminds me of him .. but when I got into it again after all this time, Musky, you're way, way better. The Kinksah kicks, but you leave him in the dry gulch Texas dust ....
I finished Mr. Dicks book and in his acknowledgements he says: "Stephen King suggests writing the first draft of your novel with the door closed. I suspect that Mr. King whom I respect a great deal..." Mr. Dicks goes on to explain that Mr. King did not, as he had, spent his youth in arcades and playing with other video game junkies and had become hooked on immediate feedback and still requires it constantly. He has overcome his addiction for the games but the need for immediate feedback has never left him. He writes every sentence with the door open!
1984. Seemed like good time for a re-read.
If you like 1984 i suggest you try to find a copy of Kallocain by Karin Boye. Excellent dystopic novel. Written and published in 1940. It won a prize in 2016 as best SF novel of that year. I always preferred her book over Orwells but that may be because she is swedish but I hope it doesn't influence my judgment.
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
Awesome quote, such a good book.
Deviated from my original plan and started reading Hideaway by Koontz after I finished Connelly's The Poet. (Great read - definitely agree with SK on the rec of this book! )
Watched the Hideaway movie several times. I've heard the movie deviated so much from the book, that Koontz pulled his name from the film. Gonna have to check that out, not sure if it's true or not.
) Watched the Hideaway movie several times. I've heard the movie deviated so much from the book, that Koontz pulled his name from the film. Gonna have to check that out, not sure if it's true or not.
Hideaway is one of my favorite Koontz novels.Deviated from my original plan and started reading Hideaway by Koontz after I finished Connelly's The Poet. (Great read - definitely agree with SK on the rec of this book!
Watched the Hideaway movie several times. I've heard the movie deviated so much from the book, that Koontz pulled his name from the film. Gonna have to check that out, not sure if it's true or not.
The movie is very different from the book. Book is better.Deviated from my original plan and started reading Hideaway by Koontz after I finished Connelly's The Poet. (Great read - definitely agree with SK on the rec of this book!
Watched the Hideaway movie several times. I've heard the movie deviated so much from the book, that Koontz pulled his name from the film. Gonna have to check that out, not sure if it's true or not.
Just finished Fahrenheit 451
Next up is Watchmen, Lonesome Dove, and Dune
Next up is Watchmen, Lonesome Dove, and Dune
1901. by Robert Conroy. His 1784 had a good premise but was rather slow if interesting. It took unnecessary long time for things to start happening. in 1901, his first book i am told, that is not so. The pace is higher and the premise is just as interesting. Here Kaiser Wilhelm II, the german emperor, is envious of his neighbours (spain, holland, Portugal, England and so on) for their empires. True fact. He tells his men to maake war plans against the US (he wants their newly required islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guam. True fact. Spies are sent to the US. True fact. The plans are realized in the summer of 1901 when McKinley is president and Teddy Roosevelt isvicepresident. In reality the plans stayed as paper plans but this book explores what might have happened if they were realized. Germany totally unexpected, for the US at least) invades Long Island and from there takes New York. And this is just the premise of the thing described in the opening chapters...... Better told than 1784 too. So far anyway.
That sounds like a interesting book sir. I'd like to look into finding that one. Thanks.
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