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Re: Good books
« Reply #125 on: September 07, 2017, 12:56:36 am »
Better deal here:

https://www.amazon.com/making-nation-Christian-social-history/dp/B0007FJUUY

Thanks.  I also see there are some newer versions by the same author.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #126 on: September 07, 2017, 12:57:56 am »
Thanks.  I also see there are some newer versions by the same author.

The older ones would be better regardless.
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Re: Good books
« Reply #127 on: September 07, 2017, 01:06:52 am »
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Re: Good books
« Reply #128 on: October 29, 2017, 05:05:28 pm »
Just finished Zane Grey's Twin Sombreros. It was funny as all get out. It's a sequel to Knights of the Range. A cowboy finds himself in love with identical twins who have lost their ranch to rustlers. Hilliarity, heorism, and horse chases ensue.
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Re: Good books
« Reply #129 on: October 29, 2017, 05:08:58 pm »
I'm reading Cold Harbor by Matthew Fitzsimmons.  Good series, hacker turned Marine turned hacker/Marine fighting for justice. 

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Re: Good books
« Reply #130 on: October 29, 2017, 05:19:13 pm »
I'm in the middle of Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, by John Eliot Gardiner.

For a conductor, he's a good writer.  ^-^

It's very scholarly, from an "insider's" point of view, and he focuses on Bach's sacred choral works, which warms the cockles of my choral conductor's heart.

For anyone who's into Classical music, and knows a bit, I highly recommend it.
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Re: Good books
« Reply #131 on: October 29, 2017, 05:36:04 pm »
Finally getting into David McCullough's 1776. Fascinating.
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« Reply #132 on: October 29, 2017, 05:37:57 pm »
Finally getting into David McCullough's 1776. Fascinating.

I love McCullough's writing style.  Good stuff.
Character still matters.  It always matters.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #133 on: October 29, 2017, 08:19:53 pm »
Finishing up: Citizen Soldiers (Stephen Ambrose)
On Deck: Fourteen Months in American Bastiles by F.K. Howard.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

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Re: Good books
« Reply #134 on: October 29, 2017, 08:54:03 pm »
Just finished Zane Grey's Twin Sombreros. It was funny as all get out. It's a sequel to Knights of the Range. A cowboy finds himself in love with identical twins who have lost their ranch to rustlers. Hilliarity, heorism, and horse chases ensue.

I ain't thought of Zane Grey in a coon's age. I'll have to go on over to the used book store and see if I can build a complete collection. I already did that with Louis L'Amour...

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Re: Good books
« Reply #135 on: October 29, 2017, 09:52:53 pm »
I ain't thought of Zane Grey in a coon's age. I'll have to go on over to the used book store and see if I can build a complete collection. I already did that with Louis L'Amour...
Max Brand wrote a pretty good yarn, too.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

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Re: Good books
« Reply #136 on: October 29, 2017, 10:20:02 pm »
Finishing up: Citizen Soldiers (Stephen Ambrose)
On Deck: Fourteen Months in American Bastiles by F.K. Howard.

Is the Ambrose book a good read?  I LOVE his style.  His heart is right there for all to see, and it's refreshing!
Character still matters.  It always matters.

I wear a mask as an exercise in liberty and love for others.  To see it as an infringement of liberty is to entirely miss the point.  Be kind.

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Use the time God is giving us to seek His will and feel His presence.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #137 on: October 29, 2017, 10:26:16 pm »
Max Brand wrote a pretty good yarn, too.

That's right! Keep it up. That used book guy needs the money! LOL!

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« Reply #138 on: October 29, 2017, 10:28:15 pm »
Is the Ambrose book a good read?  I LOVE his style.  His heart is right there for all to see, and it's refreshing!
Yes. It was recommended to me by my Father, who was infantry in the Korean War.
This book follows the troops from Normandy to the German surrender.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #139 on: October 29, 2017, 10:31:17 pm »
That's right! Keep it up. That used book guy needs the money! LOL!
I often haunt thrift shops to check out the books. The public library retires a few pretty cheaply, too, but they are of diminishing value with a lot of later stuff I won't even read.
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Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

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Re: Good books
« Reply #140 on: October 29, 2017, 10:45:23 pm »
I often haunt thrift shops to check out the books. The public library retires a few pretty cheaply, too, but they are of diminishing value with a lot of later stuff I won't even read.

Actually, my Dad was an avid reader before he passed, and went to the same guy I do. He had quite a bit on credit, and the shop keeper is honoring him by giving me and mine half off, with the other half coming out of Dad's account... Which is money long gone, if it ever was money in the first place.

Pretty sweet. that account will probably pass to my grandkids by way of me. All my books turned back have gone back onto that account.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #141 on: November 17, 2017, 01:17:30 pm »
I often haunt thrift shops to check out the books.
Welcome to the club! I'd say at least half my library at home involves thrift shop finds,
including a full set of the Harvard Classics I received as a gift a few years ago. I also
found plenty of H.L. Mencken, Albert Jay Nock and some choice writings about baseball
in the thrift shops, including a rare copy of Casey Stengel's autobiography, not to mention
a ton of books tied to my passion for old-time radio, including:

* Fred Allen's memoirs Treadmill to Oblivion and  Much Ado About Me, and a
collection of his letters.
* Four anthologies by radio comedy legend Goodman Ace, from his post-radio years
writing for the Saturday Evening Post: The Book of Little Knowledge: More Than
You Want to Know About Television
, The Fine Art of Hypochondria, The Better
of Goodman Ace
, and Ladies and Gentlemen---Easy Aces.
* Gerald Nachman's splendid history, Raised on Radio.
* John Dunning's On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio.
* Sunday Nights at Seven, the Jack Benny memoir his daughter, Joan, finished
for him after his death.
* How Fibber McGee & Molly Won World War II, a great book reviewing their
war-themed episodes.
* Vic & Sade, a posthumous collection of Paul Rhymer's scripts for that classic
quiet conversational comedy.
* Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel: The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show, a collection
of all the scripts for that short lived classic.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #142 on: November 17, 2017, 01:21:36 pm »
Now reading . . .



. . . a chronicle of Branch Rickey's and William Shea's third-major-league bid, the Continental
League, and how it ultimately forced baseball's expansion hand for the first time, hooked
partially around Casey Stengel and the 1960 World Series . . .
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Re: Good books
« Reply #143 on: November 17, 2017, 02:27:16 pm »
Welcome to the club! I'd say at least half my library at home involves thrift shop finds,
including a full set of the Harvard Classics I received as a gift a few years ago. I also
found plenty of H.L. Mencken, Albert Jay Nock and some choice writings about baseball
in the thrift shops, including a rare copy of Casey Stengel's autobiography, not to mention
a ton of books tied to my passion for old-time radio, including:

* Fred Allen's memoirs Treadmill to Oblivion and  Much Ado About Me, and a
collection of his letters.
* Four anthologies by radio comedy legend Goodman Ace, from his post-radio years
writing for the Saturday Evening Post: The Book of Little Knowledge: More Than
You Want to Know About Television
, The Fine Art of Hypochondria, The Better
of Goodman Ace
, and Ladies and Gentlemen---Easy Aces.
* Gerald Nachman's splendid history, Raised on Radio.
* John Dunning's On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio.
* Sunday Nights at Seven, the Jack Benny memoir his daughter, Joan, finished
for him after his death.
* How Fibber McGee & Molly Won World War II, a great book reviewing their
war-themed episodes.
* Vic & Sade, a posthumous collection of Paul Rhymer's scripts for that classic
quiet conversational comedy.
* Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel: The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show, a collection
of all the scripts for that short lived classic.

I have so much credit on the books at the  (three) local used book shops I will never live to use it all up so if you show up in my neck of the woods looking for something contact me.
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"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Re: Good books
« Reply #144 on: November 17, 2017, 02:48:59 pm »
I have so much credit on the books at the  (three) local used book shops I will never live to use it all up so if you show up in my neck of the woods looking for something contact me.
It's a deal!


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« Reply #145 on: November 17, 2017, 02:52:09 pm »
It's a deal!

 888high58888  Might even buy you a good steak as well!
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"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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« Reply #146 on: November 17, 2017, 03:30:25 pm »
888high58888  Might even buy you a good steak as well!
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