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To: BenLurkin
Hardcover or paperback, almost all used from the hundreds of book sellers on Amazon. I usually get the books for $1 to $5 plus $4 shipping...a real bargain. My wife reads her iPad ebooks at night now, but I can't let go of the old habit of holding a book in my hands.

Many of the books in my "pending" pile are from FR Reading Threads; I find the most wonderful recommendations on these reading threads! Keep 'em coming, folks.

Currently reading "The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains" by Owen Wister. This 1902 book was the prototype of all Western novels that followed. Mr. Wister is a great story-teller and there are numerous hilarious subplots.

34 posted on 09/21/2013 10:15:15 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I prefer actual books. Just another way in which I don’t belong in the world anymore.

Right now I’m re-reading by beat up old copy of David G. Chandler’s Campaigns of Napoleon. Got it for Christmas when I was 12 years old and finished it by the end of the following summer vacation. Paying more attention to the political aspects of the Corsican’s career this time through.


42 posted on 09/21/2013 11:55:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statemet of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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