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bianca 
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Posted on: May 17 2008,10:40 am |
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Speaking of eye openers.....
Written by a woman I have met numerous times from Minnesota wrote a first person look at poverty. Short read but an eye opener as far as poverty right here in the good ol' US of A and what "they" have to deal with day in and day out. Very humbling. Many humerous stories and interesting poems.
My Name is CHILD OF GOD...NOT "THOSE PEOPLE"
By Julia K. Dinsmore
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I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man. Woodrow Wilson
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. — Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
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Wizeguylefty
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Posted on: May 19 2008,9:12 pm |
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i read a lot of different things
pretty high on that list is anything by WEB Griffin he has 3 or 4 seperate series out
one is called the brotherhood of war its about army life from just shortly after ww2 to somewhere around viet nam its a look not at the army as a whole but from the perspective of 2 or 3 main characters and their interactions with the army and with each other.. i give it a 9 on a scale of 10
then theres the marine version called simply THE CORPS and its the same style of book except its starting point is pre ww2 it covers all of ww2 and some of korea
he then branches into the OSS i think thats called Men at war series.. it kinda had its start in the Corps series.. the companion series to the men at war is honor bound.. it too has its roots in the marine book series.. except where the main men at war is about europe the honor bound series is set in argentina..
he has 2 other series one is called badge of honor and its about the philadelphia cops and again its more about the main characters rather than the overall police dept.. his final series which is pretty current is called the presidential agent its a book about a man/team that does the presidents dirty work for him.. nothing illegal just stuff the president doesnt want to get out because of national security or whatever..
i also read a lot of steven king books my favorite book has to be the stand.. original and uncut and totally unabridged.. you need to pack several lunches to read this one.. its a 1600 page fine print book..lol just a short 3 day snack for me..lol
i have a collection of mack bolan books and the genere that expanded off of that.. able team phoenix force and soldiers of barrabas.. theres one other series to that and its viet nam ground zero... all good books but i havent read them in a long time.. they are collectors..
i guess you could say that i enjoy reading..
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Wolfie
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Posted on: May 20 2008,1:14 am |
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Went into the basement and dusted off a few military "technical" manuals, just to refresh some info and blow out the cobwebs in my brain.
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Wizeguylefty
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Posted on: May 20 2008,3:27 pm |
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heh military tech manuals.. gotta love em.... i got 3 that im proud of.. the complete set of m-60 field stripping and repair manual.... emplacement of a LMG in defilade and enfilade and a guide to the proper use of guerilla warfare and training indigenus personnel..
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Posted on: May 20 2008,9:07 pm |
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(Wizeguylefty @ May 19 2008,8:12 pm)
QUOTE i also read a lot of steven king books my favorite book has to be the stand.. original and uncut and totally unabridged.. you need to pack several lunches to read this one.. its a 1600 page fine print book..lol just a short 3 day snack for me..lol
You might like "Swan Song" by Robert McCammon. I read it in the nineties and I really enjoyed it. Here's a discription from amazon.
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Swan Song is rich with such characters as an ex-wrestler named Black Frankenstein, a New York City bag lady who feels power coursing from a weird glass ring, a boy who claws his way out of a destroyed survivalist compound. They gather their followers and travel toward each other, all bent on saving a blonde girl named Swan from the Man of Many Faces. Swan Song is often compared to Stephen King's The Stand, and for the most part, readers who enjoy one of the two novels, will enjoy the other. Like The Stand, it's an end-of-the-world novel, with epic sweep, apocalyptic drama, and a cast of vividly realized characters. But the tone is somewhat different: The good is sweeter, the evil is more sadistic, and the setting is harsher, because it's the world after a nuclear holocaust. Swan Song won a 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. It's a monster of a horror book, brimming over with stories and violence and terrific imagery--God and the Devil, the whole works.
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Glad I Left
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Posted on: Jun. 23 2008,11:41 am |
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I was stranded at the Miami airport for a few hours and I was dying for something to read. All the bookstored didn't really have a whole lot choose from but way in the back burried under other books was a book by Neal Boortz called 'Somebody's Gotta Say It'.
I am sure I have heard his name before but I never really thought much of it.
What a good book. I am about 80% done, but by far the best part is the one on our 'government (a.k.a public) schools. I have always been for private competition in our school system and this just book just helped put me over the top of why we need tax money to follow the child and not the other way around.
Hope to finish it on my flight to Richmond today.
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Posted on: Jun. 25 2008,7:54 am |
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Pillars of the Earth & World without end. these are both very large books, roughly 1000 pages each. the author is Ken Follett & the setting is 12th century England. Both books are very well written & depicts what the 12th century in England was like. lots of interesting characters & plots through out the books.
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Posted on: Jul. 04 2008,3:00 pm |
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I am currently reading the book "So Help Me God" by Roy Moore. It says, "Chief Justice Roy Moore maintains that government must acknowledge the God upon whom America's moral principles were founded and that it is constitutional and ethical to do so. During the last fifty years, federal judges have misconstrued and abused the concept of "seperation of church and state," censoring God from the public square and depleting the moral fiber of our nation." Anywho.... I am only in the 3rd chapter now but it is very interesting.
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Posted on: Jan. 01 2010,4:44 pm |
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JFK and the unspeakable by James W. Douglas available through selco.
this is a very provocative book concerning the assassination of JFK & the events leading up to it.
here is a link to a review of the book.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/JFK-and...0757556
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"Do not confuse dissent with disloyalty" Edward R Murrow
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