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Forum: Arts & Entertainment 04-22-2014, 01:16 AM
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Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Going through a Bernard Cornwell phase for a bit...

Going through a Bernard Cornwell phase for a bit -- enough to note the Sharpe novels hew to a pattern. Like how poor Richard gets ever so many opportunities to be a lover; at least once per book,...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 12-13-2013, 07:00 PM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Has Terry Brooks finally conquered that...

Has Terry Brooks finally conquered that amateurish aversion to using the word "said?"

Not that I'd read the guy anyway; it took me about three tries to get through Sword of Shannara as a young...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 11-09-2010, 01:12 PM
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Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Wolf, J.K. Rowling will no more send you to the...

Wolf, J.K. Rowling will no more send you to the dictionary than Ernest Hemingway will -- but indisputably she has written literature. However unsubtle her writing might be, when I noticed my...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 11-09-2010, 01:08 PM
Replies: 2,786
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Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Just finished "Daring Young Men" last night -- a...

Just finished "Daring Young Men" last night -- a history of the Berlin Airlift. Attributes the national recoalescence of West Germany in some part to the effort to sustain and save West Berlin. A...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 09-18-2010, 02:07 AM
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Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
V's right. It needs the comma.

V's right. It needs the comma.
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 04-05-2010, 10:32 AM
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Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Bad Chili was my first Lansdale book. There is a...

Bad Chili was my first Lansdale book. There is a degree of continuity book to book, so probably you should try to read them in order of publication date. BC was a riot, tho'.

For "Hank" read...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 04-04-2010, 10:59 PM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Joe R. Lansdale... if you don't mind that the...

Joe R. Lansdale... if you don't mind that the main character is always this unchangeably marginal person who never has any money. "Hank" resembles the Patrick Swayze character in Roadhouse -- his...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 03-29-2010, 02:20 PM
Replies: 2,786
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Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Wot Sun sed. And thanks for the warning, SG.

Wot Sun sed.

And thanks for the warning, SG.
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 09-14-2009, 10:34 PM
Replies: 2,786
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Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Thumbs up Dave Barry is vulgarly unfunny. P.J. O'Rourke...

Dave Barry is vulgarly unfunny. P.J. O'Rourke has what Barry lacks.

Try Joe R. Lansdale if you like Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen. Same rural-uncool sorts of characters, all of them about as...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 07-13-2009, 12:42 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Most remarkable departure from my usual...

Most remarkable departure from my usual nonfiction these days (must hurry to finish What's So Great About Christianity, D'Souza 2007, before it's due back) is a couple of mysteries. There's a rather...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 05-19-2009, 02:39 PM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
I've heard of it; I'll keep an eye out. Still...

I've heard of it; I'll keep an eye out. Still have Thomas P.M. Barnett's Great Powers to finish. Recommended for anybody with a broad interest in geopolitics. Also, A Blueprint For Action.
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 04-27-2009, 10:12 PM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Hey, police procedurals set in old times worked...

Hey, police procedurals set in old times worked for Ellis Peters, Wolf... his Brother Cadfael stuff. Try reading the more recent ones, though; they have a better sense of time and place than the...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 04-23-2009, 12:41 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Cool ...And there was the poor Indian the Florida...

...And there was the poor Indian the Florida State Police arrested and grilled all night until towards dawn the policemen got what they wanted...

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Forum: Arts & Entertainment 04-21-2009, 12:02 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Prospects For Conservatives, Russell Kirk. While...

Prospects For Conservatives, Russell Kirk. While he has an unabashed reverence for an ancien régime of aristocracy that I do not share, there's a lot that's seminal here.
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 12-09-2008, 02:07 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Cool Beauty's Price, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's...

Beauty's Price, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release -- S&M/B&D from Anne Rice. Ultimately it's all fluff, but there's some guilty pleasure to be gained. From quite a while back.

If anybody...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 12-09-2008, 01:54 AM
Replies: 2,786
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Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Good call on Piers Anthony, wolf. He wrote...

Good call on Piers Anthony, wolf.

He wrote better than L. Ron Hubbard.

"Series" on a cover usually means one or two books' worth of artistic and literary virtue is diluted to fill five or more....
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 08-22-2008, 04:18 PM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
ATM, the most interesting thing I'm reading is...

ATM, the most interesting thing I'm reading is Michael J. Gerson's (not to be confused with Mark Gerson) Heroic Conservatism. While he's rather more statist than I am, he's definitely striking a...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 10-11-2007, 12:45 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
It's even easier to read this comic: Doc Rat....

It's even easier to read this comic: Doc Rat. (http://www.docrat.com.au/)
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 07-23-2007, 03:56 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
I liked Deathly Hallows enough -- though I've...

I liked Deathly Hallows enough -- though I've only finished it an hour ago and I'm watching now to see how my initial impression settles out... looks like the HP 'shippers are vindicated, eh?
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 07-18-2007, 02:16 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
John Irving? The Water Method Man?

John Irving? The Water Method Man?
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 06-15-2007, 02:27 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Thought the South already had -- with Jimmy...

Thought the South already had -- with Jimmy Carter.
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 06-13-2007, 01:13 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
On The Wealth of Nations, P.J. O'Rourke. Seems a...

On The Wealth of Nations, P.J. O'Rourke. Seems a good try at an Adam Smith for Dummies. While you do get some O'Rourke punchlines, here they seem more muted and sardonic than his usual Dave...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 05-27-2007, 02:16 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
I mean, really! This DeGroot (see post 840)...

I mean, really! This DeGroot (see post 840) visibly approved MAD over Reagan and SDI. Well, SDI f*#@n' BROKE the Soviets. Put that in your pipe, DeGroot. With the Soviet effort broken, nuclear...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 05-26-2007, 04:15 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
Right now it's The Bomb, A Life by Gerard J....

Right now it's The Bomb, A Life by Gerard J. DeGroot. It's a look at how it "dominated the psyches of millions, becoming a touchstone of popular culture, celebrated or decried in mass political...
Forum: Arts & Entertainment 03-27-2007, 02:49 AM
Replies: 2,786
Views: 994,816
Posted By Urbane Guerrilla
I just finished John McPhee's latest: Uncommon...

I just finished John McPhee's latest: Uncommon Carriers. It's a McPhee go-there-and-explore look at the business of commercial transportation, and a slice of the lives of the people who make their...
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