What Are You Reading?

Subject: What Are You Reading? Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:23 am

At the moment I'm throughly enjoying a book on wetshving called "Leisure Guy's Guide To Gourmet Shaving".It's really helping me fine tune my limited shaving skills! Laughing

How about you guys?

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Dock

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Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:01 pm

Lately and on and off I have been reading parts of a book titled "The Real World of Sherlock Holmes: The True Crimes Investigated by Arthur Conan Doyle". It goes into detail about the actual crimes that Doyle helped Scotland Yard solve and which many of the Sherlock Holmes series are based upon. Very interesting!
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Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:10 pm

An excellent read JP... You should also check out the DVD series "Murder Rooms" .It's the stories of Scottish medical professor Joe Bell who Doyle actually modeled Holmes after.They're much darker than the stoires that we're all familiar with...

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Dock

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Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:16 pm

I will check those out Dock. I saw them listed on amazon.com.
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Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:05 pm

I've been going through Romans at a fairly brisk pace, great stuff in there. All of Paul's writings are packed full of good stuff, though.

Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:01 pm

I'm almost half way through Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. For me it seems like this book is fascinating for a bit then turns incredibly boring for a bit. I should finish it up as I have a stack of used books I picked up recently that I should get started on.
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Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:09 pm

Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:46 pm

Chopper: A History of American Military Helicopter Operations from WWII to the War on Terror.

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Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:10 pm

I am currently reading Exodus and Mathew, Angels by Billy Grahm and For who the bell tolls by Hemingway.
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Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:12 pm

Pictures From An Expedition by Diane Smith.
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Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:31 am

The Story of the Irish Race by Seumas MacManus.

An Irish history book from the time of the Firbolg to 1938. I have read it before,but I promised Bro Tony to toss it in the truck so he could have a go at it when we met again. I find myself picking it up and starting over when all I intended was to reread some of the poetry.

Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:56 pm

On a political kick these past few weeks. "Common Ground" by Cal Thomas and Bob Berkel, "Blinded by the Right" by David Brock, "Lies and the Lying...etc. by Al Franken.

I especially liked "Common Ground" for the way it sums up the political gridlock that's been going on for the past 20-25 years and suggestions for fighting it. Also, because these guys look realistically at how hard it will be to accomplish this.

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Subject: Re: What Are You Reading? Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:55 pm