I started reading The Road and put it back down relatively quickly
Reminded me of Gilligan's Island: lots of aimless wandering about
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Reminded me of Gilligan's Island: lots of aimless wandering about
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I was able to get all the way through Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" but wasn't liking the style and punctuation. Seemed it was done just to be odd and didn't really add anything of value. Maybe that's just me.
I am only about 3 chapters into this and it is being quite the hard read. Not because it is poorly written or anything it just pisses me off so much, my blood pressure keeps getting so high I can't focus on the words and need to set it down.
This is fair warning this shit will piss you off to no end.
This is fair warning this shit will piss you off to no end.
Just finished this one from Kurt Schlichter. It is fiction, but it is based on some current and very recent real events. It does get a little far fetched in a couple of spots, but for the most part is a believable portrayal of possible events. Not a bad read.
About to finish it as well. Spot on review but I'll add, I think if an Qct 7th style event happened here, a few different twists would play out as well.
I’ve read or listened to most of Mark Goodwin’s books. They are prep for end of the world with some fairly well thought out Revelations, rapture and tribulation explanations woven in. Looking for something similar by another author.
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I did not read this, but listened to it going to and from work. I got audible a little bit ago and had not really used it. This one was a free book, they have LOTS of free stuff, most of the "classics" are free.
Listening has some advantages over reading, for example I had no idea how to say his name. It is pronounced See moe for the first name, and High Ha for the last name. The guy reading it did a very good job with the names of the Finnish cities and areas so I think he is a speaker of the language, but there was no accent, if anything there was a tiny bit of a british accent, but not much.
A pretty good book, learned some things, one being I knew he was shot in the face, but I did not know it was an exploding bullet. How that did not kill him I have no idea. It sounds like he was a very private man, and did not like to talk of his war time experience, common with people that really did something. I have noticed the more quiet you are about it the more of a bad ass you are.
I would suggest this book to another, it was pretty good, and it seemed pretty short.
I think I might like this audible thing, as reading is starting to really bother my eyes. I can't sit and read like I once could, my eyes start to hurt.
I have done quite a bit of reading this year waiting for a bionic hip and now in recovery. I thought back to a Jim Corbrtt book I read in high school titled "Man Eaters of Kumaon" and decided to see if Amazon has it which they did for the princley sum of 2 bucks. This lead to more of his books and then to Kenneth Anderson that came after him killing man eating tigers and panthers in India. Anderson make a point that a leopard was called a panther in India but Corbett used each name. Corbett started in the very late 1800's where travel was mostly by walking with some limited train travel available. By Anderson's time roads were more numerous and he drove a Studebaker car to many of his hunting sites and then feet came into play. 25 miles hikes were a regular thing to each and sometimes they would do it again the nest day. I walked a lot in my younger years but never close to 25 miles in one day. I have been impressed with the skill, daring, knowledge, and stamina of these two men. Elephants, bears, and snakes are dealt with also plus detailed descriptions of the terrain and their methods used to lure their quarry. Neither was a braggard and admitted to how frightened they were at times. Good stories if you are interested in highly skilled hunters persuing more skilled animals than they were and living to tell the tales. All that separated them was the hunter's abilities to out think the man eaters.
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I got this as an e-book and am now into Part II. Good read - though names and some words are difficult for this English-only reader to get. Glad I got the e-book - it has photos of Simo and maps pertinent to the text. I was surprised how small he was - I'd guess no more than 5'-4" or so, but large on toughness.
Good recommendation,@fpgt72 !
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