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No I don't mean Doc and Mickey

When we sold our house we decided to unload most of our paper back book collection.
We were astounded to see it had grown to almost a 1000 books.
Yikes!.
We kept some of the series and donated the rest.
Now comes the meat of the title.
SWMBO says let's use the library more.
Now in WA the library system was very progressive,ie...no late charges and they wouldn't send you a note about the book unless it was really late.
Here, typical library with late charges and 2 week limits.
I hate librarys.
Found ours had a small rack that was called borrow a book give a book.
Don't need to check it out.
Now we are talking.
So I have been using this. Well every once in a while I finish and need a new book and need a fix so I went into my son's room to see what he had.
I was desperate.

First I found
Red Badge of Courage. Never read that in school.
A good read but very hard to follow the conversation sometimes with the terminology of that period.

Well I just finish another book I never read in school.
Catcher in the Rye.
Now that was a very interesting read and still not quite sure of the ending.
Kind of reminds me of my boy ,though

Sorry for the long diatribe.
 
If you find "Lord Of The Flies", throw it away.
 
I read Catcher In The Rye a couple of years back because I hadn't read it in school. I don't know why that was such a noted book. It didn't do much for me.
Recently I've been reading through "The complete works" volumes I get at Barnes and Nobel I've read Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and am currently working on Edgar Allen Poe. It's actually very interesting how those three overlap.
 
"Catcher in the Rye" was good, I thought. I agree that "Lord of the Flies" should be s***canned...
 
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Just finished "American Soldier", General Tom Franks' autobio. Good read. Now into one about Churchill.
 
I finally got around to reading "The Last Open Road",by BS Levy.
Now I'm reading "One Good Run",a non-fiction book about the life & times
of Burt Munro ("The World's Fastest Indian") that I found at our local library.
What a character he was.
The also have the original "The Unfair Advantage".I need to reread it.

- Doug
 
No...which book, ...you knucklehead.
Sheez
 
if I feel the need to read a BOOK as opposed to a car mag then I would go to the legion and get one there at no charge
 
Not so much. Kinda "Churchill light".
 
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