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Herman Wouk is 90 today
May 27, 2005

Posted on 05/27/2005 1:54:16 PM PDT by EveningStar

The great Herman Wouk (pronounced "woke") is 90 today.

He is the renowned author of The Caine Mutiny (and the play, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial), Marjorie Morningstar, Youngblood Hawke, The Winds of War, and War and Rememberance.

He is also an unapologetic religious Jew and the author of This is My God: The Jewish Way of Life.

His works promote traditionalist conservative values.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans; Religion; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: happybirthday; hermanwouk; jews; judaism; wouk
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To: Borges

Go, Herman!


41 posted on 05/27/2009 7:56:50 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Borges

Pulp fiction as a genre has an undeserved bad name, those first publishers were our earliest conservationists in the true and streetworn sense.

Somehow the quality of the paper on which the words were printed came to be representative of the worth of the words themselves.

Few truly read to learn, most read to enjoy or to escape the pithy core of their humduggery.


42 posted on 05/27/2009 8:31:35 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: EveningStar

Happy 95th!


43 posted on 05/27/2010 6:57:05 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Thanks. I knew you’d remember. :)


44 posted on 05/27/2010 9:17:44 AM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: EveningStar

Happy 96th!


45 posted on 05/27/2011 7:58:00 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Happy 97th!


46 posted on 05/27/2012 7:50:49 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Well played. :)


47 posted on 05/27/2012 5:16:07 PM PDT by Borges
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To: EveningStar; mlmr; Paved Paradise; CougarGA7
I didn't look at the dates on this thread until I got to my own reply from 2005. I kept thinking this discussion looks very familiar for some reason.

Well, now I'm on the real time + 70 years reading of WOW/WAR. And I still don't see the romantic relationships coming from a thought process mired in the 60s or 70s.

Check out the WWII + 70 Years news thread on June 4 for the next Wouk excerpt I have lined up.

48 posted on 05/27/2012 5:34:43 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Borges

Happy 98th!


49 posted on 05/27/2013 7:26:01 AM PDT by EveningStar ("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
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To: EveningStar

Beat me to it!


50 posted on 05/27/2013 8:12:27 AM PDT by Borges
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

“The Winds of War” and “War and Rememberance” are two of the most powerful novels ever written.


CONCUR.....Classics


51 posted on 05/27/2013 8:22:29 AM PDT by AFret. ("Charlie don't surf ! ")
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To: EveningStar

Happy 99th!


52 posted on 05/27/2014 9:52:10 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

:)


53 posted on 05/27/2014 10:00:19 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
I loved the Mad Magazine movie parody "Windbags of War".

It was so good, SNL adapted it for a sketch in 1983.

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(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

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54 posted on 05/27/2014 10:04:42 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: EveningStar

Currently reading “The Hope”, with some arab stuff to help a bit with overall perspective.

Herman Wouk is probably my favorite contemporary author.

Thanks for the initial post.

All Good....


55 posted on 06/21/2014 8:40:20 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: EveningStar

His books are still readable today and I happily point out that he is still alive.


56 posted on 06/21/2014 8:50:55 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: EveningStar

Happy 100!


57 posted on 05/27/2015 7:23:10 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Amazing! :)


58 posted on 05/27/2015 9:49:23 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Happy 101st!


59 posted on 05/27/2016 7:15:03 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

:)


60 posted on 05/27/2016 7:44:14 AM PDT by EveningStar
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