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Getting close to wrapping this one up:

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2nd book in a series. Both have been really good. I have the remaining 10 sitting here ready to go...and then realized this is a spin-off character from another series Sandford did. So I ordered the first four from that series. I’m going to need to read the first 17 in that series before this new series resumes. Then they seem to alternate back and forth, with the two main characters appearing in each other’s series (one works for the other).

So at least I won’t have to figure out what to read for the next several months...there are 43 total books to get through.
 
BigWaylon said:
Getting close to wrapping this one up:

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2nd book in a series. Both have been really good. I have the remaining 10 sitting here ready to go...and then realized this is a spin-off character from another series Sandford did. So I ordered the first four from that series. I’m going to need to read the first 17 in that series before this new series resumes. Then they seem to alternate back and forth, with the two main characters appearing in each other’s series (one works for the other).

So at least I won’t have to figure out what to read for the next several months...there are 43 total books to get through.
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The wife and I both read his Lucas Davenport novels until he went preachy liberal. Then we both dumped them.
 
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The wife and I both read his Lucas Davenport novels until he went preachy liberal. Then we both dumped them.
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Well, those are the ones I’m going to back up and read, so we’ll see how it goes.
 
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Well, those are the ones I’m going to back up and read, so we’ll see how it goes.
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Amazon says our last one was Buried Prey (Lucas Davenport, Book 21), but they had gotten annoying a bit before that. We'd just read so many of things we were hoping he'd stop being an annoying little preachy liberal bitch. Guess not.
 
Just finished The Children of Titan series. Pretty good SciFi series. Corporations run the worlds, people of Titan want independence, series followers a “company collector”, a hitman, bounty hunter, enforcer type. Pretty good.

Children of Titan Series by Rhett C. Bruno

The Collector (Children of Titan #0.5), Titanborn (Children of Titan, #1), Titan's Son (Children of Titan #2), Titan's Rise (Children of Titan, #3), Tit...
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Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks
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Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks

More than 6,000 ships have met their doom in the waters along the North Carolina coast, weaving a rich history of tragedy, drama, and heroics along these picturesque beaches. Men have lost their lives and fortunes, and heroes have been made where the combination of mixing currents, treacherous...
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True Believer. Second in a series of four by Jack Carr. Fourth one will be released in a couple months. Maybe I’ll have the third one read by then. image.jpg
 
Reading Mike Lindell's (MyPillow guy) book "What's the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO."

About halfway through, it's excellently written and interesting. He's had a helluva life, and I'm just now getting to the point where he's starting MyPillow.
 
check your children's book collection.
Dr. Seuss has been "cancelled".
check out these prices and bids.....

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check your children's book collection.
Dr. Seuss has been "cancelled".
check out these prices and bids.....

www.ebay.com

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Get the best deals for dr seuss banned at eBay.com. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with Fast & Free shipping on many items!
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Thank goodness cancel culture heroes are here to protect us from exposure to those ghastly insensitive Dr. Seuss books. Heaven forbid kids read books written by a prior generation that wasn't raised to be a bunch of pansies.
 
Iceberg Slim.

old book which we knew about,
but never read until this week.
best book we have read this year.
lots of jargon/slang
but an easy read.
 
Heretics, by G. K. Chesterton
 
Just started this one and I can already tell I'll be up all night.20210905_155642.jpg
 
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"The Ravens"

Stories of the Cessna pilots over Loas and the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
I'm surprised those men could walk!
 

This one is cute. Even people who aren't into LitRPG might like it.
 
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I just finished, Thursday, Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite (or something like that), it's Roger Daltry's autobiography. If you dont recognize the name - singer for The Who.

I started, during Covid, The Man in the White Suit by Ben Collins, that's what Im working on now. He was the White Stig on Top Gear and a professional racing driver. As well as spent, Im reading, time in the military during all of that.
 
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"The Ravens"

Stories of the Cessna pilots over Loas and the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
I'm surprised those men could walk!
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I read that one a couple weeks ago. Awesome book. Reads like a Clancy novel at points.
 
A big moment in my life. I have a memory seared into my brain from life at home. My dad always had a John D MacDonald - Travis McGee book he was reading, so they were always laying around. I’d guess he’s read them all a dozen times or more. I remember every one having a color in the title.

Texted my dad a couple weeks ago to see how many of the books he still had. Turns out he was reading one at that moment. He had about 2/3 of them…and I snagged the other third off Thriftbooks.

Finished up a 43-book series a month or so ago and worked through a couple other books I had on hand. Read chapter 1 of the first (written in ‘64) of this series today, then went to work in the yard. Just showered and gonna settle back in and keep going.

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For SF fans, just finished Project Hail Mary. A really fun read especially if you are a techie type, it's the latest from Andy Weir who wrote The Martian that the movie is based on.

Normally I gravitate towards military history, aviation, post apocalyptic tales, etc. but this was a refreshing change.

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For SF fans, just finished Project Hail Mary. A really fun read especially if you are a techie type, it's the latest from Andy Weir who wrote The Martian that the movie is based on.

Normally I gravitate towards military history, aviation, post apocalyptic tales, etc. but this was a refreshing change.

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I thought it was a great read.
 
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A big moment in my life. I have a memory seared into my brain from life at home. My dad always had a John D MacDonald - Travis McGee book he was reading, so they were always laying around. I’d guess he’s read them all a dozen times or more. I remember every one having a color in the title.

Texted my dad a couple weeks ago to see how many of the books he still had. Turns out he was reading one at that moment. He had about 2/3 of them…and I snagged the other third off Thriftbooks.

Finished up a 43-book series a month or so ago and worked through a couple other books I had on hand. Read chapter 1 of the first (written in ‘64) of this series today, then went to work in the yard. Just showered and gonna settle back in and keep going.

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My dad is a big John D MacDonald fan, too. I’ve read most of the McGee series. Fantastic writer IMHO. It’s remarkable how many current writers cite him as early inspiration.
 
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My dad is a big John D MacDonald fan, too. I’ve read most of the McGee series. Fantastic writer IMHO. It’s remarkable how many current writers cite him as early inspiration.
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Yeah…it’s a whole different level of descriptive writing than the stuff I’ve been reading.
 
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I just finished, Thursday, Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite (or something like that), it's Roger Daltry's autobiography. If you dont recognize the name - singer for The Who.

I started, during Covid, The Man in the White Suit by Ben Collins, that's what Im working on now. He was the White Stig on Top Gear and a professional racing driver. As well as spent, Im reading, time in the military during all of that.
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I'm surprised you know Who Daltry is.. ;)
You can probably guess I'm a big Wjo fan, how was it?
 
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My dad is a big John D MacDonald fan, too. I’ve read most of the McGee series. Fantastic writer IMHO. It’s remarkable how many current writers cite him as early inspiration.
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First I'd heard of him was in Agents of SHIELD where Coulson was recovering.
Coulson goes on to explain that Nick sent him off to Tahiti to recover, sip Mai Tais, read Travis McGee novels and enjoy the company of a physical therapist with an irrelevant lack of English-speaking ability.
 
Started Blood and Courage. It‘s about Daniel Boone. Also picked up the last 2 James Elroy books since he nails our dark underbelly in a fun to read way.
 
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