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Post by Ms. Jericho on May 3, 2008 16:59:25 GMT -5
I am pretty sure her name is Carolyn Jessop and the book is called Escape.
I am reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck and is it REALLY good.
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Post by Chris on May 8, 2008 12:30:10 GMT -5
I am going to pick up this gem:
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Post by 9 on May 8, 2008 15:20:57 GMT -5
Halfway through this and totally addicted:
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 19, 2008 7:52:43 GMT -5
So my run through baseball books continues. Just finished Dick Williams' lengthy tome (and I stand by my assertion that it was the best baseball bio I have ever read) and now its on to the account of Larry Bowa's shaky first foray into managing. Entitled, "BLEEP - LARRY BOWA MANAGES" its part autobiog, with sections written by baseball sage Barry Bloom as well. Dateline, 1987.
I didnt expect all too much, but so far, so good. A bit of continuity, as Bowa took over the Padres only 8 months after Dick Williams was there and hit the road after an acrimonious breach with management. So a lot of the same characters are back from that era of the writings. I am early on, but you can already see the caustic Bowa nature breaking through. Whats funny is the took on the project upon being named the manager of the Padres - his first major league managing role - and immediatly started working on a book.
Considering how things turned out there, maybe he should have passed on doing a book and concentrated on the task at hand. This was another book I grabbed from Amazon for like, 37 cents. Keep ya posted on it.
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Post by 9 on May 19, 2008 8:33:11 GMT -5
Maybe he started writing a book to distract himself from those grotesque brown-and-yellow uniforms.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 19, 2008 9:03:03 GMT -5
Hear, hear. Cover of the book is actually him in his brown cap, and a brown Padres jacket. Yelling towards the field, believe it or not.
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Post by Chris on May 19, 2008 9:31:14 GMT -5
Famed fabricator and liar, James Frey, apparently has a new book out. This one is fiction, appropriately enough.
I read the first chapter of his book that got him in so much hot water, A Million Little Pieces, and it was pretty apparent right off the bat that the book was full of embellishments.
Although, apparently from reviews I've read on the new book, fiction is his calling.
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Post by Chris on May 25, 2008 23:35:39 GMT -5
So I picked up Feinstein's "Living On The Black" at the library this weekend. I'm about a quarter way through.
It's a captivating book, but I tell ya the one thing that stands out for me, or at least the overwhelming perception that I have...
The feeling that many fans have that ballplayers are a bunch of Me-First-Millionaires, isn't far off. Feinstein likes Glavine and Mussina both - actually considers them personal friends - so surely he intended to portray them in as flattering a light as possible. But all throughout the book thus far, it's littered with tales of these two pitchers playing for woeful teams BUT having a good year regardless and almost implying a sense of contentment with that. Mussina goes as far as to say that he "did everything he could" in 1997 and really didn't display much remorse at all in how the season ended of for the O's that year when all of Baltimore expected to see them in the Fall Classic.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 26, 2008 8:01:05 GMT -5
Cho, keep us posted on that read. That book is hovering on the cusp of my to-do list. As for me, even though I was in the middle of like 6 books I ended up picking an old one off my shelf the other night, and started to read. And now I am buried in it. It totally muscled my way in, just from me poking around like a nosybody while getting fish food off the bookcase. GOLD DUST AND GUNSMOKE. It is what it is. Tales of the gold rush, and all the lawlessness and bedlam going on round then. Lynching, vigilante justice, beating up hispanics and stealing their claims, all that. There are also cool gunfighter names about. A fun romp. I'll have more on this.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 26, 2008 10:57:28 GMT -5
So last night I got to crack "Almost a Miracle" - a highly regarded tome about the Revolutionary War. I have long been a Civil War buff, at the expense of this particular conflict. But this book is apparently a wonderful account and wrap of the Revolutionary War. I am looking forward to reading, and the first chapter had me enraptured.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 3, 2008 21:51:51 GMT -5
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Jul 4, 2008 10:47:51 GMT -5
I like that it is "practical."
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Post by Chris on Jul 13, 2008 19:41:46 GMT -5
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 22, 2008 12:34:32 GMT -5
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 27, 2008 11:06:34 GMT -5
Currently reading "Crazy 08" - a baseballian tome, accounting that very season. This book contains the coolest sentence ever printed in a book. After mentiioning Rube Waddell's tremendous stats from the 1903 campaign, it goes on to say... "It was a busy year in other ways too - he also starred on vaudeville, led a marching band through Jacksonville, got engaged, married, and seperated, rescued a log from drowning (he thought it was a woman), accidentially shot a friend, and was bitten by a lion."
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Post by 9 on Jul 27, 2008 12:25:37 GMT -5
The log was eternally grateful.
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Jul 29, 2008 10:47:46 GMT -5
So far in the month of July I have read:and I just startedand i still have a stack of about fifteen books that i have bought and not read yet
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Post by 9 on Jul 29, 2008 12:02:29 GMT -5
That's five more books than myself this month. I tend to read in spurts, though.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 22, 2008 18:06:38 GMT -5
I just ordered this.
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Post by 9 on Aug 22, 2008 19:24:31 GMT -5
That looks cool!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 22, 2008 21:40:26 GMT -5
Thats why I got it. Impulse buy, after poor Garfield came up after being referenced as a JEAPORDY question.
The graphic novelist who pulled that one off does a whole heap of "true crime" editions, from Henry Hyde to Jack the Ripper.
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Post by Chris on Aug 25, 2008 11:44:22 GMT -5
It's taken me about 3 years, and at least 10 re-starts, but I've finally finished Jack Kerouac's "On The Road."
And now I can't stop answering people's questions in my best Dean Moriarty impression.
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Post by Chris on Sept 16, 2008 12:31:40 GMT -5
As a small child I had a favorite book - The Hole Book by Peter Newell. My Aunt, about 5 or 6 years older than me, had committed thievery and kept this thing from whence she checked it out from the Island Trees Public Library. The book was written in the 20s I believe. It is the tale of a boy who finds a loaded gun, fires it, and the subsequent pages chronicle the travels of the bullet. It is perhaps, one of the most inappropriately politically incorrect books I've seen, playing into all sorts of ethnic stereotypes....alas, those were different times. Some years ago, I was desperately trying to find this book to read to my kid....only to discover it was out of print. I found two old copies on eBay for $80, and paid it for one; my mother bought the second. Shortly after that, I wrote a letter to the publisher of this book, asking if they had plans to re-print it....coincidentally they did have such plans, the eventually re-printed it, I bought a few copies at a reasonable price. However, I noticed the new copies had been abbreviated for political correctness. Today, talking about this book with a co-worker, I did some online research, found this link - a page by page scrolling through the original unedited version of this great book. Please enjoy the adventures of Tom Potts, fooling with a gun (Click on the HOLE to advance pages): www.nonsenselit.org/newell/hole/00.html
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Post by crazilyz on Sept 16, 2008 14:38:07 GMT -5
When I started reading your message, I thought of another book that had holes in it, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."
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Post by Chris on Sept 16, 2008 16:59:40 GMT -5
I remember that one too.
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Post by 9 on Oct 13, 2008 11:08:57 GMT -5
Just finished this. Good read. All of the members of Guns N' Roses were even bigger screwballs than I thought.
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Post by Chris on Nov 17, 2008 13:05:33 GMT -5
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 17, 2008 13:24:01 GMT -5
I had heard about this....a lot of magazines and such are doing this now. Awesome. This said, I would like to see this thread get more use. I know so many of us are constantly in the middle of one book or another. So you all know my reading is all over the place. Right now one of the books I am reading is the account of that teacher who finageled with one her underrage students, Deb LaFave. This book is as tawdry as you can imagine....her ex-husband dishes all kinds of dirt, throws out all kinds of dirty laundry on her. Not a well written book, even boring, but I am deep enough in there where i am going to tough it out. This doofy chick was once on Monday Nitro, during a Miss Monday Nitro contest, which she won. I have it on tape, and sometimes go back to it and laugh.
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Post by sancho231 on Nov 17, 2008 13:33:16 GMT -5
Almost done With The Bret Hart Autobiography. i' diggin it.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 17, 2008 13:41:04 GMT -5
Im reading that too. Went to his signing at the Barnes and Noble over on Wall. Nice to see something good happening on Wall Street, huh? I am only 10% into the book, its a lengthy tome and I have a few other reads in the way. But I think its strong fodder, and its got high reviews all-around.
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