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try this dale...pure hardcore scifi.

I suppose all of you sci-fi readers have read the Dune series.

jerryd6818 wrote:I suppose all of you sci-fi readers have read the Dune series.

I did not like Dune. For me the book was as dry as the sands in which the story was set.

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try this dale...pure hardcore scifi.

I think I have read a few of those.
The last series I finished was the Starfist series; Marines in Space, Oorah!

orvet wrote:

jerryd6818 wrote:I suppose all of you sci-fi readers have read the Dune series.

I did not like Dune. For me the book was as dry as the sands in which the story was set.

I made it through the first book in the series. Bailed out early in the second book. Never went near the third book. I thought it was just me.

Just finished Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King...about the loss of the US Brig Commerce off the western shore of Africa in 1815, and the subsequent enslavement of it's crew by Arabs in the Sahara desert...pretty intense re-counting of a true story, those men were made to suffer for certain. I like reading stories of survival, nautical stories, historical fiction and non-fiction. One of my favorites is The Sea Wolf by Jack London, read that one many a time.

We are sure getting older...What happen to the old trashy magazines????...Easy Rider??....just looking at the ol Harleys.....heeehee....Now days an old western novel is ok with me

Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series is on my to find and reread list. I went to my favorite use sci-fi bookstore and found only a single copy of one of the approximately 15 books in that series. I guess everybody else had the same idea since the John Carter movie comes out tomorrow.

orvet wrote:Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series is on my to find and reread list. I went to my favorite use sci-fi bookstore and found only a single copy of one of the approximately 15 books in that series. I guess everybody else had the same idea since the John Carter movie comes out tomorrow.

Tons of 'em on eBay but most aren't cheap.

I recently finished a book by Stephen King titled 11/22/63. It is about a guy who has a chance to go back in time and stop the JFK asassination.

I don't like all his writing, but I really enjoyed this book. He even manages to wrap characters from a previous book into this one!

I also enjoyed his Dark Tower series.

Glenn

I will soon finish "Empire of the summer moon", suggested by Cowboy on Dec. 12th.
Very good history and apparently well researched.
If you like North American indian history and history of the early American West this book is calling to you.
The book cost something like $7.00 at Alibris.

Joe,

I read Empire of the Summer Moon when it first came out a year or so ago. Outstanding read. I was born and raised in the Fort Worth area. As a child on family vacations, while driving up through the Texas Panhandle to Borger to see my grandparents, my dad would point out the various Indian sites, like Medicine Mound, Palo Duro Canyon etc. That made the book that much more interesting for me.

I told him about it, and he read it as well - he said he enjoyed more than any book he has read in years.

I picked up the book "The Captured" as well. It's about whites who were taken captive by the Comanche and Apache during the 1860-70s in Texas. It's a good read too.

Just got a couple of new ones for my birthday:

Unrepentant Sinner - the autobiography of Colonel Charles Askins.
http://www.amazon.com/Unrepentant-Sinne ... 105&sr=8-1

No Second Place Winner, by Bill Jordan
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Place-Winn ... 156&sr=1-1

Under the Overpass, by Mike Yankoski
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Overpass-Jo ... 261&sr=1-1

Gonna be a good weekend

Good reading there, Blue.
I have a Jordan designed K frame Smith. Model 19.
I have all of Robert Service's work. Great stuff.

Unk,
I hope to get in that country some day. Thanks for your responce. I'm from the West. Spokane, Wa....
But I want to hang out in the real west sometime.

Just finished reading this Book and as weird as the Title is it was a Great Read! It's also coming out as a Movie in June 2012. Here is one of the Movie Trailors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZp7eBSt ... re=related

Mitch all that Vampire stuff is a little far out there for me. But then again, I would like to see this movie and that desire makes me wonder about myself.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4CZrnEFxU[/youtube]

DAMN! Jerry, I think I'l stick with the Vampires!

Jerry, there's a message in there just crying to be read out-loud!!

hahahahahahahaha! Love 'em both!
Second one reminds me of FALLING DOWN w/ Michael Douglas

Don`t you guys read anything interesting? Like this............

In the '50s and early '60s, MM was the wet dream of every boy my age.

I remember when Marilyn Monroe died. I was 15 years old. I didn't think of her in some sexy way.
I thought of her as a glorious, georgeous, beautiful woman. A fabulous movie star at the top of every thing, and then she was dead. I was really sad about that.

I was in boot camp when she died. We were at the rifle range and I don't recall the Drill Instructors saying anything about it. A week after her death, I turned 18.

Just got a new stack:

The Real Contra War, by Timothy Brown
http://www.amazon.com/The-Real-Contra-W ... _ir_all_25

Leading at the Edge, by Dennis Perkins
http://www.amazon.com/Leading-The-Edge- ... 513&sr=1-2

and for some stress relief:
Calico Joe, by John Grisham
http://www.amazon.com/Calico-Joe-John-G ... 584&sr=1-1

Well, the movie, titled "Jack Reacher" instead of the books title "One Shot" will be In theaters December 21, 2012. Lil' Tommy Cruise (5' 7") will be wearing shoes with 10" lifts to come up to the mythical Jack Reacher's 6' 5". Love the idea of making "One Shot" or any of the other Lee Child books into a movie. Hate the casting.

Yes, I'll go see it.

Edit: I just watched the trailer. Maybe I won't go see it.
http://www.jackreachermovie.com/#/videos