Just watch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and you'll get all that classic stuff at once.
(Personally I liked the movie)
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(Personally I liked the movie)
Just watch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and you'll get all that classic stuff at once.
(Personally I liked the movie)
I liked the movie too, but there's something to be said about reading it as the author wrote it.........
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Son is at work. Wife is running errands. Just me and the dog at home. I have a John D MacDonald book I’m partway through, but it’s a slow read. Gonna take a mental break and work on this one for a bit…and have the next two of the NUMA series already here:
Not sure if she can read from that distance or not…
Not sure if she can read from that distance or not…
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That 415 pages is done…let’s see how the next one goes. It at least still has Clive Cussler’s name on it. The next one doesn’t.
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And that 401 pages is done. Actual work slowed me down a bit. 😁
So time to start this one and see what Kurt & Joe are up to:
update:
finished paperback One Year After.
1. numerous editiing errors: missing punctuation, etc... annoying. similar to video pixelation. takes me "out" of the story.
2. factual mistakes. example: K-Cups were not available when One Second After was written (not published).
3. other. example: using clips instead of magazines.
the story itself had lots of him preaching and "speeching".
glad i did not pay anything for it.
finished paperback One Year After.
1. numerous editiing errors: missing punctuation, etc... annoying. similar to video pixelation. takes me "out" of the story.
2. factual mistakes. example: K-Cups were not available when One Second After was written (not published).
3. other. example: using clips instead of magazines.
the story itself had lots of him preaching and "speeching".
glad i did not pay anything for it.
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Just finished all of the Sean Duffy novels from Adrian McKinty after a recommendation here. Thank you @rufrdr! A very good series of detective novels and I enjoyed them very much. I’m also stoked to see that the newest one is about to be released next month. Can’t wait!!!
Also, did anyone know there was a Heat 2 novel out? It’s co-written by Michael Mann himself, and is a sequel and a prequel at the same time. Vincent Hanna wraps up the aftermath of the big shootout and it also shows you how McCauley brought his team together. Got this on reserve hold at the library.
Also, did anyone know there was a Heat 2 novel out? It’s co-written by Michael Mann himself, and is a sequel and a prequel at the same time. Vincent Hanna wraps up the aftermath of the big shootout and it also shows you how McCauley brought his team together. Got this on reserve hold at the library.
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Mckinty also has a "Dead" series that is pretty good. Nothing like the Duffy series.
Heat 2. Just finished it!!!
Michael Mann takes a shot at writing his first novel based on his best crime story IMO. It’s a prequel and a sequel to the events from the film, showing what happened to the only survivor of the bank shootout, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), in the days immediately after.
The book goes back 7-8 years prior and tells the story of how Neil McCaughley and his crew came together to take down a score in Chicago. Coincidentally, Vincent Hanna is a CID detective in the Chicago PD at the same time, who later moves to LA and eventually intersects with Neil’s crew. There’s a plot element that connects both timelines, before and after the film, that puts in motion a confrontation between Chris and Vincent.
If you enjoyed the movie and the characters, then you will like this book. Michael Mann recycles a few similar lines from Vincent Hanna’s character in the film and I swore I could hear Al Pacino’s voice saying them. Chris Shiherlis’ fate is interesting and his character takes a path that I didn’t see coming. The book ending is 100% adrenaline and I could not stop until I finished it.
Michael Mann takes a shot at writing his first novel based on his best crime story IMO. It’s a prequel and a sequel to the events from the film, showing what happened to the only survivor of the bank shootout, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), in the days immediately after.
The book goes back 7-8 years prior and tells the story of how Neil McCaughley and his crew came together to take down a score in Chicago. Coincidentally, Vincent Hanna is a CID detective in the Chicago PD at the same time, who later moves to LA and eventually intersects with Neil’s crew. There’s a plot element that connects both timelines, before and after the film, that puts in motion a confrontation between Chris and Vincent.
If you enjoyed the movie and the characters, then you will like this book. Michael Mann recycles a few similar lines from Vincent Hanna’s character in the film and I swore I could hear Al Pacino’s voice saying them. Chris Shiherlis’ fate is interesting and his character takes a path that I didn’t see coming. The book ending is 100% adrenaline and I could not stop until I finished it.
California Desert Trails, written in 1917 by Joseph Smeaton Chase about a solo , two year long exploration of the Mojave and surrounding desert areas inland southern California. There's about 25 black and white plates taken during his hike/ride which are really spectacular. Walking around the Mojave was (and still is?) no joke.
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I stumbled across this series, which turned out to be fun and interesting.
Cliff notes version, Ready Player One meets World of Warcraft / Dungeons, & Dragons
This kid with a medical condition has to go into a medical pod that’s connected to the biggest virtual reality game in the world for a prolonged amount of time. While he’s there, he has a bunch of adventures it’s a 10 book series fantasy stuff it’s not generally what I like but the first book was free for me and I got hooked.
Amazon product ASIN B07Q24SRFQ
Cliff notes version, Ready Player One meets World of Warcraft / Dungeons, & Dragons
This kid with a medical condition has to go into a medical pod that’s connected to the biggest virtual reality game in the world for a prolonged amount of time. While he’s there, he has a bunch of adventures it’s a 10 book series fantasy stuff it’s not generally what I like but the first book was free for me and I got hooked.
Amazon product ASIN B07Q24SRFQ
Just purchased the two-volume biography of Patrick O'Brian written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.
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Got this from my wife for my birthday (May) or Father’s Day…can’t remember. Finally started it today. Never read it when it came out.
The book is very good, lots more details than the movie.
Finished it. Another great story, and hopefully not the last we hear of Sean Duffy or that universe.
I’ve really enjoyed this series, and if you like the police procedural genre then I highly recommend this.
I’m waiting for the next Michael Connelly novel to drop in a few months but it will be another Lincoln Lawyer novel. Not that I don’t enjoy that character and the legal drama stories, I really like the detective mystery genre. I need to find more good authors.
Any other recommendations?
I read a book awhile ago "Song of the Sirens" by Earnest K. Gann of an iron hulled sailing ship he owned for several years in the late 50s and eventually sold to a husband and wife who turned it into a sailing academy and was lost in a sudden "white squall" in the early 60s. A fictionalized movie version was done in the 90s. Further research on the sinking of the Albatross brought me to this book. Got it from the Harnett county library. So far so good
Finishing up the original Sherlock Holmes stories by A Conan Doyle. Pretty great read and its nice to have such digestable chunks to get through before bed.
After that, the better half picked up a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to read, probably haven't read that book in a decade or two.
After that, the better half picked up a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to read, probably haven't read that book in a decade or two.
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You know how you read an 1152 page book? One page at a time…starting today.
My dad and I read some version of this book on a family road trip back in ~’91. We were driving from Charlotte to Lacrosse, WI to Omaha, back through St Louis to Charlotte. Minivan and pop-up camper. That’s one of the trips that helped me visit 46 of the 50 states before I graduated high school. We stopped somewhere and picked out the thickest book we could find…and this was it. One would read (to themselves) while the other drove. Two bookmarks in the same book.
So he gave me this one this past Christmas, with a note.
My dad and I read some version of this book on a family road trip back in ~’91. We were driving from Charlotte to Lacrosse, WI to Omaha, back through St Louis to Charlotte. Minivan and pop-up camper. That’s one of the trips that helped me visit 46 of the 50 states before I graduated high school. We stopped somewhere and picked out the thickest book we could find…and this was it. One would read (to themselves) while the other drove. Two bookmarks in the same book.
So he gave me this one this past Christmas, with a note.
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I’ve read all of Buckley’s sailing books (plus some others); this may be the best. Read it for the pure pleasure of reading the written word. Buckley could write about tire recapping and it would still be great reading. Get you some
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I've only read his Blackford Oakes novels, and that was quite a while ago. I'll add it (them?) to the list.
I used to read all King‘s stuff. That is a good one. My favorite was the Gunslinger Series. Think I still have them all of you ever want to read them. Just let me know and we’ll get them to you.
Nero Wolfe at the moment. I have run out of Sherlock Holmes books and have read all the Patrick McManus I can find. I read to my wife every night before we go to sleep and have a stack of books taller than I am of books we have enjoyed. We tried Agatha Christy and Edgar Allen Poe but found them hard to read out loud. We were big into the Indian Wars, Mountain Men, and the western expansion a while back, but she got tired of all the bloodshed.
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Nathaniel Philbrick
"The bestselling author of "Mayflower" sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West
Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands, from the Spartans' defeat at Thermopylae to Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
In his tightly structured narrative, Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly sketches the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, whose charisma and political savvy earned him the position of leader of the Plains Indians, and George Armstrong Custer, one of the Union's greatest cavalry officers and a man with a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage. Philbrick reminds readers that the Battle of the Little Bighorn was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations. Increasingly outraged by the government's Indian policies, the Plains tribes allied themselves and held their ground in southern Montana. Within a few years of Little Bighorn, however, all the major tribal leaders would be confined to Indian reservations.
Throughout, Philbrick beautifully evokes the history and geography of the Great Plains with his characteristic grace and sense of drama. "The Last Stand" is a mesmerizing account of the archetypal story of the American West, one that continues to haunt our collective imagination."
Listening to this as an audiobook from the library. I visited the LIttle Big Horn National Battlefield in the fall of 2020, a moving experience for me. Listening to the book ties it all together. Highly recommended.
