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What The Dog Saw And Other Adventures
Lots of interesting stuff about pit bulls, mammography, Veg-A-Matics, Enron, and first impressions. And other stuff.
Words I Had To Look Up:
flibbertigibbet (pg. 600) -- A Middle English word referring to a flighty or whimsical person. A word not used often enough!
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10/2010
Space Prison
A shipload of colonists are captured by some enemy aliens, I guess they are. Some are sent off to be slaves, about half get dumped on an Earth-like planet, which isn't so much. Several centuries later their descendants get their revenge, and then some.
Good story, I enjoyed reading it very much. Not familiar with this author, I shall have to see what else they have written.
Quote:
“Well——" Schroeder shrugged his shoulders. "It was my idea.”
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7/2022
Snitch Jacket
Suckered in the title, and then the jacket, with its threatening hairy 'Nam vet grasping a bottle of brew. Interesting story, lots of cursing, laugh out loud funny in parts, but over all a sad story, with a downer ending. But a nice sendup of Burning Man.
Words I Had To Look Up:
studies in American Toughguy manqu (pg. 158) -- Unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition.
Snopes Cow (pg. 180) -- Some sort of weird Faulkner reference. See, this is why this book is good, now I gotta read Faulkner!
Smoke Quote:
He carried a BIC lighter in his sweaty palm, like s sick man with his hand on the call nurse's button. (pg. 16)
Bike Quote:
The law requires you to ride right there on the blacktop... This I refuse to do... Still,when I saw screeching near-misses between cars and people stupid enough to pedal their $3,000, space-alloy machines in the 'bike lane' -- I call it the suicide lane -- I rooted instinctively for the car. (pg. 52)
Quote:
'Where You Can Be An Individual!' (pg. 191)
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7/2009
The Garden Of Eve
Odd story of Evie, whose father moves them to a farm after her mother dies. A farm that seems to have a curse on the apple tree orchard. Having a cemetery next door can't help. And there's that boy, the one that claims to be dead.
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3/2010
Carter Beats The Devil
A very good book about a magician named Carter. Story involves Philo Farnsworth and President Harding. Not the perfect book, but a very satisfying read. Reviewed in Booklist July 2001 pg. 1948.
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12/2001
Beyond The Beyond
An old sci fi show (not unlike Star Trek) is revived, but some fervent fans don't care for the new cast.
Is "light-year" misused on purpose? It's not funny!
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5/2012
Mr. Monk Goes To Germany
But it takes a lot of drugs.
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5/2012
The Princess Bride
A pretty good book, but the movie! You can't read the book without seeing the actors speak the lines! A wonerful movie. The "s" word and the "b" word each appear once in the book.
Quote:
The old man nodded. "Now, I can die."
She glanced at him. "Don't." Her tone was surprisingly tender, and probably she sensed how important he really was to her, because when he did die, two years further on, she went right after, and most of the people who knew her well agreed it was the sudden lack of opposition that undid her. (pg. 40)
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4/2009
Four Queens
This non-fiction book tells the stories of four sisters from Provence who all because queens in the Middle Ages.
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9/2018
The Lady Queen
The Notorious Reign Of Joanna I. Good historical non-fiction. Very small print in paperback edition. I liked it, but it was a long read. I could only handle a few pages each night. Especially with the small print. I'm not a big fan of historical non-fiction, but I feel smarter for having read this. Even though I can't remember very many of the points raised in the Discussion Questions. The whole German Army destroying the historical records of the period, now THAT was especially interesting!
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7/2018
The Red Umbrella
It's the revolution in Cuba, Lucia and her little brother end up in Nebraska after being sent to the U.S. by their parents. Interesting story. I always wonder where people come up with money for bribes and plane tickets after having all their wealth taken away, though.
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2/2012
32 Cadillacs
DKA has to recover 32 Cadillacs stolen by Gypsys. Very good. The Dortmunder gang makes a cameo.
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9/2003
Cases
Sort of fictionalized story of the author's early years seeing America and getting into the P.I business. Very good.
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10/2003
Come Morning
Guy gets out of San Quentin, everbody wants the diamonds he had stolen. Good story, as ever.
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9/2003
Cons, Scams & Grifts
Gypsies, repomen (Dan Kearney & Associates), and an orangutuan named Freddie. Very good, I should have knowen primates would show up somewhere!
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9/2003
Contract Null & Void
DKA is at it again, protecting a computer whiz, repoing truck tires, and bad jokes.
TYPO QUOTE:
But wait a minute! The water was sweating. --pg. 298Read:
9/2003
Dead Man
Eddie Dain is dead, along with his wife and child. Dain is alive, to find the killers. Good story, good swamp lore.
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9/2003
Menanced Assasin
Lawyer discovers the company she works for is Mafia-run, blabs, get murdered. Somebody gets even, killing everone else. Good book, not easy to read, pretty descriptive sex. Lots of lecture about the evolution of Man.
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9/2003
Wolf Time
Great story, an old man is shot, survives and goes looking for the shooter. Reminanaces of his years learning about the wilderness from an old Indian mixed with a burgening presidential campaign his daughter is working on.
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10/2003
Combat Swimmer :Memoirs Of A Navy SEAL
Biography of the guy who commanded SEAL Team Six after Marcinko. A lot less cussing than Marcinko.
QUOTE:
I told Maynard there was nothing I couldn't handle. All the men needed was some good leadership and adult supervision, and I could provide both. --pg. 176.Read:
5/2003
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