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Re-reading an oldie but goody
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Books gathering dust....
My "library" is replete with dusty tomes. Some are "classics" and some are contemporary. Among the ones I've read and re-read are late fifties and early sixties "Book of the Month" ones.
I grew up on Kipling, Defoe, Mellvile, LeCarre, Mitchel, Fleming, Norton, Heinlein, Azimov and Rand... among many others.
My "library" is replete with dusty tomes. Some are "classics" and some are contemporary. Among the ones I've read and re-read are late fifties and early sixties "Book of the Month" ones.
I grew up on Kipling, Defoe, Mellvile, LeCarre, Mitchel, Fleming, Norton, Heinlein, Azimov and Rand... among many others.
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Gee, I hoped it was going to be this:
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Gee, I hoped it was going to be this:
Scholastic Books!!! Read that when in third grade if memory serves. And another called: "The Red, Red Roadster." An Alfa story, similar story line though.
Messed me up fer life, methinks. :smirk:
DNK
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Timely thread.
I just saw that Pat Conroy has the final closure for his "The Great Santini" book out.
It's called "The Death of the Great Santini"
Watch most of the movie over the years yet I had no idea he wrote it.
Might have to pick up the first so I can read the second
Big fan of his writing
I just saw that Pat Conroy has the final closure for his "The Great Santini" book out.
It's called "The Death of the Great Santini"
Watch most of the movie over the years yet I had no idea he wrote it.
Might have to pick up the first so I can read the second
Big fan of his writing
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I think it was an epidemic. Just read the reviews on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Car-...318/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1
Or, as Peter Egan put it in his Side Glances column here: https://www.roadandtrack.com/rt-archive/in-the-shadow-of-the-red-car
"Now, I have discovered over the years that there are two types of car enthusiasts: 1) Those who never heard of The Red Car and 2) those who read the book at an impressionable age and had their lives ruined by it. "
mikephillips
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The Red Car was one of those things that moved me to British cars when I was a kid. grew up in a small midwet farming community and never actually saw one until years later, but I knew I wanted a TC someday.
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Ditto once again! In fact, I still have a copy, along with The Black Tiger, and The Black Tiger at LeMans. Read all of 'em as a kid, circa 1959.
Trevor Triumph
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Now that I have a Kindle I've been reading the books I avoided in school. As an adult I think they are interesting. I have called them the books that are supposed to be good for you. Gulliver's Travels, Iliad, and Sophie's' Choice are among them. The down side, sort of, is that the Kindle has a dictionary loaded so when I see a would I don't know i just tap and the definition appears. With Styron that happened nearly every page. I learned that by not going to the dictionary and turning pages I never learned the definition- no work involved.
Gliderman8
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Isn't that what Paul Revere said: "The Yiddish are coming, the Yiddish are coming"
Isn't that what Paul Revere said: "The Yiddish are coming, the Yiddish are coming"
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