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[indianasmith]

Read 11/22/63 FIRST.  It is an amazing piece of work!
(I live an hour from where Kennedy was shot.  I have walked Dealey Plaza and been to the Sixth Floor Museum more times than I can count.)

[Flick James]

Read 11/22/63 FIRST.  It is an amazing piece of work!
(I live an hour from where Kennedy was shot.  I have walked Dealey Plaza and been to the Sixth Floor Museum more times than I can count.)

My wife picked that up for me because she thought I would find it interesting. I haven't picked it up yet. Since I've finished my MBA, however, I might actually have a little time to crack it. The evening weather is gorgeous in Arizona and it looks like just the book to settle into the hammock with along with a nice cold beverage.

[indianasmith]

I'm nearly done with THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST.
It's a fascinating trilogy, although I'll admit some aspects of Swedish culture are very  . . . . foreign!

[Frank81]

Read 11/22/63 FIRST.  It is an amazing piece of work!
(I live an hour from where Kennedy was shot.  I have walked Dealey Plaza and been to the Sixth Floor Museum more times than I can count.)

UhOh, You're  an hour  away  from Dealy and  been to the sixth floor many times.. folks, we've  found the second  gunman, call  Oliver  Stone.   Seriously, It is  an ongoing tragedy  that  the Kennedy  assassination has become  a  cottage  industry  for every  raving mad person who can write  any theory and present it as  fact. It's a  Closed Case  to me. It's  just sad it'll never  go away.

[Doggett]

And I bought this...

[indianasmith]

Read 11/22/63 FIRST.  It is an amazing piece of work!
(I live an hour from where Kennedy was shot.  I have walked Dealey Plaza and been to the Sixth Floor Museum more times than I can count.)

UhOh, You're  an hour  away  from Dealy and  been to the sixth floor many times.. folks, we've  found the second  gunman, call  Oliver  Stone.   Seriously, It is  an ongoing tragedy  that  the Kennedy  assassination has become  a  cottage  industry  for every  raving mad person who can write  any theory and present it as  fact. It's a  Closed Case  to me. It's  just sad it'll never  go away.

I was a serious conspiracy buff in college, as I have grown older I can see that Oswald may indeed have acted alone, but there are just enough odd pieces of evidence that point to a second gunmant that I never can completely buy it. That is what makes the whole thing so fascinating to me - there is so much we will never know.

BTW, I was born three weeks afterward, so unless my mom let me play with guns in utero, I am absolved as a suspect!

[Frank81]

Read 11/22/63 FIRST.  It is an amazing piece of work!
(I live an hour from where Kennedy was shot.  I have walked Dealey Plaza and been to the Sixth Floor Museum more times than I can count.)

UhOh, You're  an hour  away  from Dealy and  been to the sixth floor many times.. folks, we've  found the second  gunman, call  Oliver  Stone.   Seriously, It is  an ongoing tragedy  that  the Kennedy  assassination has become  a  cottage  industry  for every  raving mad person who can write  any theory and present it as  fact. It's a  Closed Case  to me. It's  just sad it'll never  go away.

I was a serious conspiracy buff in college, as I have grown older I can see that Oswald may indeed have acted alone, but there are just enough odd pieces of evidence that point to a second gunmant that I never can completely buy it. That is what makes the whole thing so fascinating to me - there is so much we will never know.

BTW, I was born three weeks afterward, so unless my mom let me play with guns in utero, I am absolved as a suspect!

Oh, You mentioned the name? Oswald is completely innocent, a patsy, remember, rinse and repeat.

Yeah, I was a baby. But, I could have pulled a trigger.

[Doggett]

I just bought Under the Dome in hardback. It was cheap so I had to buy it. I don't have a King addiction. I don't. I don't have to justify my book buying choices to you or anyone!

I can stop reading King anytime I want.

Anytime.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Ye-es!

Brandon T. Snider's "DC Comics: the Ultimate Character Guide" featuring the 201 most important individual characters and groups of characters from DC Comics.

The groups range from the villainous Crime Syndicate to the heroic Teen Titans. Some of whom also get their own individual entry.

While written for teens, it can be used by anyone as an introduction to the DC Comic characters.

Each entry consists of one page and includes a color illustration of the character, their powers, a brief bio-history, their real name, their heighth-weight, their occupation, a list of friends-foes, and their base of operations.

Now I like to see one for the next 201 most important characters from DC Comics and one for the characters from Marvel Comics.

And Alan Villiers' "Posted Missing: the Story of Ships Lost without Trace in Recent Years," as it was first published in 1956, recent years are 1909 to 1956, with a preface taking the book up to 1973.

The title is something of a misnomer, as they have found wreckage and even the occasional body from some of the wrecks. Experts just want to know what caused the ships to go missing. And here, even they can make an educated guess. If there were storm in the area, then the ship sank in a storm. If the ship was in an area of icebergs, then it most likely struck an iceberg and sank.

And editor Laura Manske's "Family Travel: the Farther You Go, the Closer You Get." A travel book containing essays on traveling with the family.

It is one of those situations, where you think the last two books have nothing in common, but . . . Awe. Respect. Children.

As many times as the writer has put to see, every time he puts to sea, he still is in awe of it. And the writers are in awe of the countries they visit.

The writer has respect for whoever sails upon the sea. No matter what their nationality is. And the writers have respect for the people who live in the countries that they visit.

A loss at sea is always a tragedy, but a loss of a child, whether as passenger or member of the crew ia always a greater tragedy. And the writers like the children they encounter on their travels.

And, perhaps, it is time to say, that the writer being British, I have yet to find a British writer who dislikes children. Well, maybe one or two, but they are mighty thin on the ground.

Next time: Henry A. Giroux's "The Mouse That Roared," or how to win, when the facts are not on your side.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Ye-es!

Henry A. Giroux's "The Mouse That Roared,"
or how to win, when the facts do not support your case, by using "bad thinking."

When I was in school, we were taught not only what was "good thinking," but what was "bad thinking," as well. And, probably, while I have used what I was taught, many times since then, never have I used it to the extent that I used it while reading this critique of the Walt Disney Company. While it is not meant to be, it comes across as a classic textbook of "bad thinking," as there are so many different samples of it in the book. For example . . .

01. Use outdated facts that no longer apply.
02. Use facts that are totally wrong.
03. Cherry pick your facts. Only use facts that support you. Ignore all facts that do not support you.
04. Make assumptions without providing proofs for said assumptions.
05. Tar your opponent at every opportunity.
06. Make statesments that are hyperbolic and/or hypocritical.
07. Always show your subject in the worst possible light.
08. State that only your opinions are right. Anyone else that states an opinion is wrong.
09.Never use a neutral or positive word, when you can use a negative word.
10. State something, then later totally contradict yourself, as you believe your  audience has no memory of what you said earlier.
11. While showing no precognizance yourself, criticize your subject for not being precognizant.
12. Reduce what is complex to the simplistic.
13. And never associate your subject with anything positive or neutral, but always with something that is negative.

Next time: William H. Miller's "S.S. United States" and etc.

[Vik]

'Film' by Ronald Bergan.

Rudimentary, but decent.

[The Burgomaster]

I recently purchased the entire WAR OF THE WORLDS comic book run that appeared in AMAZING ADVENTURES during the 1970s.  I have only 4 issues remaining.  Overall, an enjoyable series with only 2 or 3 stories that were duds.

[AndyC]

Reading two novels concurrently. I'm a little over halfway through reading The Hobbit to my daughter at bedtime. She's really enjoying it.

A little bit different from my first introduction to the story, watching the Rankin-Bass animated movie that creeped me out as a little kid. The story itself is not as disturbing as that late-70s animation made it.

For myself, I'm exploring novels I can find on the Kindle for 2.99 or less, and I've found a couple of decent ones so far. Right now, I'm reading Dome City Blues, by Jeff Edwards. Kind of a William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, film noir type of thing. Burned-out private eye in a cyberpunk future, solving a bizarre murder case for a beautiful woman. Standard stuff, but entertaining so far.

[Doggett]

[The Burgomaster]

Wait a minute . . . we all know you can't read!