Some neat books this weekend

Motion seconded. Hi, Eden, We also have some of your compatriots in the
group, Mique Burke, for instance. And some Kiwis, Fran Read, for
instance. And the group is definitely not dead! Why wee just had a fine
discussion of how to serve red wine - including Australian reds.


Me? Moi?? A New Zealander??????? Hey!!!! And here I am sitting at the
keyboard eating toast and vegemite.
Fran - Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!!!!!

Hahaha! Gotta laugh as I eat my toast and MARMITE!!!

Judith (Kiwi, kiwi, kiwi!)

On Feb 25, 8:30*pm, Pogonip wrote:
Willow wrote:
"The Religion" was to be the first of a trilogy but my sense is that
it did not do well enough to merit further development. *Speaking of
which, has the Dan Brown book on the Knights Templar gone the way of
the wild goose (and anyone old enough to remember that as a song gets
ten points! *Naming tghe singer gets you ten more).

Willow

That would be Frankie Laine, of course.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.comhttp://members.tripod..com/~bernardschopen/

Too bad nobody here ever heard Mickey Katz's (Joel Grey's father)
Yiddish send off on the Frankie Laine recording. If you understood it,
it would have been hilarious. Tsk!


Barry

On Feb 26, 1:25*am, "Stanley Moore" wrote:
"Willow" wrote in message

...



Yes, "The Religion" is indeed rather bloody. *Willocks is a
psychiatrist who once dated Madonna, we are told. *A good read but I
do have to wonder about the movie- like addition of the young boy.
Rather like the addition of children to each of Michael Crichton's
"Jurrasic Park" movies. *It seemed like the young lad was added to
make the book appeal to a larger demographic, not to enhance the
story. *The blood and gore go with that type of appeal.

"The Religion" was to be the first of a trilogy but my sense is that
it did not do well enough to merit further development. *Speaking of
which, has the Dan Brown book on the Knights Templar gone the way of
the wild goose (and anyone old enough to remember that as a song gets
ten points! *Naming tghe singer gets you ten more).

Willow

Probably the influence of Spielberg. In almost every movie of his he has
children as important main or subsidiary characters. Almost every film has
some kid in danger. It is almost a trademark of his. Take care
--
Stanley L. Moore
"The belief in a supernatural
source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable
of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad

So where is this different from Disney?

Barry

"Joan in GB-W" wrote in message
|
| This newsgroup is dead! Wow, I didn't know that.
|
| Eden is talking about rec.collecting.books, to which I cross-posted
it.
| Sorry.
|
|
| --
| Francis A. Miniter
|
|
| Then I apologize to Eden for my quick reply.
|
| Joan
| Hey apology accepted.
|
| The lesson might be to subscribe to rec.arts.mystery
|
| Cheers
| Eden
|
|
| Please do. This is a friendly group . . . most of the time. And we do
| discuss books . . . some of the time.
|
| Joan
|

Welcome, Eden.

from Annie
in Chicago

Pogonip wrote:
Mr. E wrote:

"Willow" wrote in message
...
I envy you.

Penis envy perhaps?
Go lament about the penis you had cut off, you sick, perverted sexual
degenerate!
Sick ****s like you belong in prison.

Fell off the wagon again, Mr. E?


Mr E was never really on the wagon. Never grew up, either, I see.

Mary

Mary wrote:
Pogonip wrote:
Mr. E wrote:

"Willow" wrote in message
...

I envy you.

Penis envy perhaps?
Go lament about the penis you had cut off, you sick, perverted sexual
degenerate!
Sick ****s like you belong in prison.

Fell off the wagon again, Mr. E?


Mr E was never really on the wagon. Never grew up, either, I see.


If, as Mique said, this is not the Mr E that used to post here, I
apologize to him.

He did say some obnoxious things under the influence but possibly not
quite that offensive.

Mary

Fran Read wrote:
Francis wrote:
Motion seconded. Hi, Eden, We also have some of your compatriots in the
group, Mique Burke, for instance. And some Kiwis, Fran Read, for
instance. And the group is definitely not dead! Why wee just had a fine
discussion of how to serve red wine - including Australian reds.


Me? Moi?? A New Zealander??????? Hey!!!! And here I am sitting at the
keyboard eating toast and vegemite.
Fran - Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!!!!!



Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

--
Francis A. Miniter

ως ουκ αν αιων' εκμαθοις β�οτων, π�ιν αν
θανη τις, ουτε ει χ�ηστος ουτ’ ει τω κακος.

i have not found any good books recently, but i found two great ones
over the years.
i was renting a house and an old guy told me i could keep anything i
wanted if i cleaned out the garage for him. it was a horrible mess, but
there was one book i found in great condition; "tarzan of the
apes",first edition....
this got me collecting books and i found another good one at a yard sale
a few years later; ernest hemmingway;" farewell to arms" first edition"
for 50 cents...in really good condition....since then i have found quite
a few good ones at yard sales, but the good ones are getting harder and
harder to find..


"THE BLACK HAND" is the name of the international
terrorist group that is causing all the problems.

wrote:
i have not found any good books recently, but i found two great ones
over the years.
i was renting a house and an old guy told me i could keep anything i
wanted if i cleaned out the garage for him. it was a horrible mess, but
there was one book i found in great condition; "tarzan of the
apes",first edition....
this got me collecting books and i found another good one at a yard sale
a few years later; ernest hemmingway;" farewell to arms" first edition"
for 50 cents...in really good condition....since then i have found quite
a few good ones at yard sales, but the good ones are getting harder and
harder to find..


"THE BLACK HAND" is the name of the international
terrorist group that is causing all the problems.



Yes. Tag sale-ing is hard work. You have to get up earlier
than to go to work, have to be there half an hour or more
before the newspaper ad says it starts, and have to still
get to the next one at the same time. Plotting your route
to minimize travel time also is an effort.

I have been going more to library book sales, where the
library advertises that most if not all of the books have
been donated. See www.booksalefinder.com . It is still
hard work, but at least most of the books are in one place.
A couple years ago I went to a library book sale in a
small town here in Connecticut, but an estate had donated
about 30,000 books from the collection of a retired New York
City book dealer. I came away with two of three volumes of
the first issue, first printing, first edition of Waverly by
Sir Walter Scott, Edinburgh 1814. The librarians must have
had no idea.

--
Francis A. Miniter

Oscuramente
libros, laminas, llaves
siguen mi suerte.

Jorge Luis Borges, La Cifra Haiku, 6