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“ This is my least favorite Wally Lamb book. I had such high hopes for it. It turned out to be a real waste of time. ”
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Let me know if you like Pat Conroy's new book. He's one of my favorites.
thanks. no, I haven't read the sequel. I have seen the movie and wasn't impressed. I felt like the movie was more obsessed with Bridg 's best friend, than the shanigans that bridg gets into.
Just figured I'd see what you were reading these days. I just started'Flower Net' by Lisa See, and I hope it's as good as the last two I just read by her. I'm hooked!
Thank you for including me. I have my Kindle now and have read a couple of good books. The first is Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen. I have started her other book, The Sugar Queen. I especially enjoy finding free books on my Kindle. I did finish the Choice by Nicholas Sparks and it was a nice
I just started reading The Choice by Nicholas Sparksit is to soon to say much.
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Well, I finished "the hour I first believed" yesterday. Jeez, what a disappointment! I guess it was because I had such high expectations. What was your opinion of it?
It depends on what you read. That book by Robin Cook was a waste of time, but The Somme, the T. E. Lawrence book and The Innocent Man, the last 2 which are coming to you were good, interesting and I wish they were longer as they were an enjoyable way to pass my time
Dear Brenda:Thank you so much for following up with me.I love Mrs Pollifax, I'm anxious to get back to reading her.Did you ever read the other books not under Mrs. Pollifax?I enjoyed Lonely Bones. Write again soon Susan
I'm nearing the end of The Innocent Man by John Grisham. Very interesting read, it appears that there was more than one innocent man that was incarcerated. Next up after I watch the Gilmore Girls is How To Talk To A Liberal by Ann Coulter. which is some 350 pages in length or D-DAY by Stephen E. Ambrose which is 582 pages.
In the book, on the desert trip to Akaba, he has two young boys as servents, a guy fell off his camel and Lawrence went back to find and did rescue him and brought him back to camp. Way prior to that, he got rid of his Army clothes and wore that White outfit, all of which was in the movie and other stuff like that. I have not seen that movie in years so can't remember if some of the battles in the book were in the movie.
I'm at page 144 of 380 pages. At about page 50 or so I realized that the book was the basic script for the Lawrence of Arabia movie. It could be the same book.
I just finished The 100-Year Secret by Benmjamin Jacobs. In late April of 1945, WW2 was about over, Hitler comited suicide and the Germans loaded a bunch (lots) of War prisioners and Jewish Concentration camp people on two ships in Northern Germany. The Red Cross informed the British RAF about this on May 2nd and on May 3rd, the RAF bombed those ships and strafed some survivors who made it off the ship. A lot who made it to shore were done in by the German SS people. The author was a Concentration camp inmate who survived and wrote the book. I'm starting one entitled Revolt In The Desert by T. E. Lawrence, the Lawrence Of Arabia guy, loved the music in the movie. He wrote this book in 1926. It's an oldie, I hope It's a goodie.
I think I'll pass on your offer for now. I did a fast count of my books and came up with over 550 of them, half of which I haven't read yet. When I get my unread books read and thin out my supply, I'll take you up on your offer.
Never heard of her. I lead a very sheltered life. It depends on the subject matter of the book. I have 10 history books on different eras and subjects written by Will and Muriel Durant that I'm trying to work my way through with little or no success.
I work my way through a novel I enjoy in 2 days or less, novels I don't like take me 4 days or more to work my way through it. Books on historical events take me a long time as I'm trying to study and remember what's in the book. I do a lot of re-reading if I'm interested in the subject of the book.
Our shooting friend in Ripon has first dibs on it. I'll get it to Robbie when it's returned to me.
The battle started 7-1-1916. The first 90 pages of the book cover that day. It was trench warfare, the Germans were in their fortified trench and the French and British were in their trench with a no mans land in between the trenches. The batlefield covered an area 20 miles wide by 6 miles deep at its deepest point. On 6-24-1916, they started shelling the German lines and lobed (sp) 1,732,873 shells at the Germans, then on 7-1-16, came out of their trenches, charged the German lines and got creamed in the Northern 3/4th of the battlefield, but had some success in the Southern 1/4.
New book I'm starting entitled "The SOMME" by Martin Gilbert. It's about a battle that took place in France in World War 1, in July 1916. The British Army lost 20,000 men the first day of this battle
Senior Bob does do that at times. Anyway, back to the book, you are right about what you remember about the book. The lead character is of the pushy sort which reminds me of my work enviroment that I had. Don't like pushy people that much, do this, do that , do it this way, etc., so don't like the lead character of the story
