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Tanniker Smith
Posted on 02/24/2005 6:11:45 PM PST by Tanniker Smith
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To: Tanniker Smith
I heartily suggest
America's 30 Years War, by Balint Vaszonyi
He was a concert pianist (recently deceased) who came to America and noticed the similarities between the Progressive movement and the early days of Soviet Communism. He also is very diplomatic and fair about how the subtlest of differences in the original philosophies of the Left and Right make such huge differences when they are carried out to their logical conclusions.
To: Tanniker Smith
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To: Tanniker Smith
Please add me to the ping list and thanks.
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:23:36 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: RadioAstronomer; RightWingAtheist; Tax-chick; Xenalyte; MississippiMalcontent
Bibliopath ping.
To: Tanniker Smith
Recently read:
- Before the Fact by Francis Iles
- Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley
- The House of the Arrow by A.E.W. Mason
All three of the above are collected in an omnibus edition Three Famous Murder Novels, published by Modern Library. All three novels were good, but the first one made the biggest impression on me.
Currently reading: Standing Next to History by Joseph Petro.
To: Tanniker Smith; Physicist
Right now in my bag:
Fowler's Modern English Usage, the 1957 edition (an amazing read for the grammar wonk)
How to Talk to a Liberal (already read, but it's good for five-minute fixes when I need a break from work)
The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Highly recommended - romance, mystery, thrills, plot twists. I do not recommend fiction lightly, and I say check it out.
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:41:53 AM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Your mother sells hot dogs.)
To: Tanniker Smith; Do not dub me shapka broham
"Knowledge and Decisions" by Thomas Sowell, America's greatest living intellectual
"Home-Alone America" by Mary Eberstadt
"Hating Whitey" by David Horowitz
and a thank you to *Do not dub me shapka broham* for talking up Horowitz, and I also have "Destructive Generation" out of the library.
I was halfway through "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower" by C.S. Forester, when my husband snarfed it,
and I've got "The Dragons of Expectation," by Robert Conquest (author of "Harvest of Sorrow") in the pile.
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:43:51 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
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To: Tax-chick
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posted on
02/25/2005 10:45:29 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
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To: Physicist
Have you or anyone read a book by DeMille (Plum Island author) called "Night Fall" ? I heard an interview with him on Savage yesterday and it is based on the TWA800 crash where he looked into the details and made it into a novel. It sounds reaaly good as I never thought it was a faulty wire but a terrorist attack. I am 117 on the waiting list at our library.
To: Tax-chick
"Tyrone Martin's, "A Most Fortunate SHip", about the USS Constitution. "
Library ping with the book in it.
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02/25/2005 10:48:34 AM PST
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Tax-chick
(Donate to FRIENDS OF SCOUTING and ruin a liberal's day!)
To: Burn24
Right on, girl! For instance... I've just read Cormac McCarthy's "Cities of the Plain," and found it breathtaking. Anyone want to talk about it? I love McCarthy. Cities of the Plain was good, but the best of the trilogy was The Crossing, IMHO.
Also IMHO, Blood Meridian is on a completely different level from anything in the Border Trilogy. It's just a masterpiece.
To: Tanniker Smith
Great idea! Please add me to the ping list. Thanks.
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posted on
02/25/2005 11:12:25 AM PST
by
SouthParkRepublican
(There are no contradictions... Only faulty premises.)
To: Dr. Scarpetta
I haven't read Men in Black yet, but I'm thinking about buying a few copies and giving them for gifts. Would the average non-political person like it for a birthday or St. Patrick's Day gift?
Sure. The book is very clear for political novices, for anyone who has a basic understanding of American history. Even I, who is very interested in politics, learned a lot.
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posted on
02/25/2005 4:10:03 PM PST
by
Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
(Any Freepers who enjoy fantasy, I welcome to look at my FR homepage to take a look at my new book)
To: k2blader
I'm interested in any FReeper fiction writers. :-)
Well, hop on over to my Free Republic homepage. I've got my latest release featured there. :)
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posted on
02/25/2005 4:11:57 PM PST
by
Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
(Any Freepers who enjoy fantasy, I welcome to look at my FR homepage to take a look at my new book)
To: Tanniker Smith
Please add me to your ping list.
To: Physicist; RightWingAtheist; Tax-chick; Xenalyte; MississippiMalcontent; cyborg
I just finished "The Perfect Machine". :-)
To: Travis McGee
Hey Travis! My wife just started reading EFAD. We talked about the story for about an hour tonight after I got home from work. She asked me what kind of gun the "T.C." is...
Hmmm...Do I see another gun purchase developing?
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posted on
02/25/2005 5:39:26 PM PST
by
pocat
To: Physicist
I'm now reading "Blood Meridian" and am finding it somewhat horrifying - have just covered the Indian massacre. But I can't put it down. Somehow it's clean in its brutality.
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posted on
02/25/2005 5:48:44 PM PST
by
Burn24
To: Tanniker Smith
Just finished Huxley's Brave New World
Today I started C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet
(a homeschool Mom that never read these in school so I am reading them with my sons).
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posted on
02/25/2005 7:20:51 PM PST
by
mamalujo
(home education is great; we sleep late.)
To: squarebarb
Patrick O'Brian is a lifelong addiction. Next summer I will start my third read through. If I live to be a hundred and can still see, it will still be on my reading list. Just finished "Over the Edge of the World" by Laurence Bergreen, about Magellan's Circumnavigation. Very good.
Other great reads: Natan Sharansky's "The Case for Democracy"
Tommy Franks "American Soldier"
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