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| Posted: Wed Jul 18th, 2007 11:35 pm |
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Ole be careful, you had better send Dear One so you don't end up with a bag of books instead of one. I played in the library at the Drum all day sorting books and trying to make room for all of them . I looked up and I had been working with out a break for over four hours. Some wonderful finds in the stacks of books .
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19th, 2007 12:42 am |
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ole Member 
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Dear One would very likely pick up 6 or 8 books of her own choosing. It's safer if I do it myself. Don't know exactly how many O'Brian books I've read -- six or seven maybe. But if I had an opportunity to assemble the entire collection, I'd trade my first edition Grant's Memoirs for it. ole
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19th, 2007 12:46 am |
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ole Member
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Calcav: You aren't old enough to remember the Forster Hornblower series in Saturday Evening Post. Assuming you meant that your library had the books sometime in the 80s. ole
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19th, 2007 06:58 am |
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susansweet Member
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Will expect a report on how many you end up buying on your trip to the Disneyland of booklovers. We were working in the library at the Drum today. The director is rearranging it and making it a more user friendly place. Also because of space we are deaccessing copies of books we have four or five copies on on the shelf. We recently inherited two libraries of friends of the Drum who had passed away. One of the things we have is severals sets of the Time Life series, the silver books. Today the intern was told to make sure that the one set was complete and then to see how many complete sets we have and how many sets with missing volumes. One of the board members will price them and then they will be offered to members for sale. My eyes lit up I have always wanted a set. Then I looked on line today at Amazon for what used sets are selling for. The director knows i want a set but I don't think I will be getting one any ways soon. But just for a brief moment I was dreaming . I was also kicking myself I didn't buy that set volume by volume as I did several other Time Life Sets. Oh well Susan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19th, 2007 01:32 pm |
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calcav Member
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Ole, This young pup bought the Hornblower books at Barnes & Noble. Tom
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19th, 2007 02:23 pm |
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Susan, Susan, Susan (refer to 'Joanie, Joanie, Joanie') Mortgage the house, put your car up for collateral, knock off a vending machine, borrow against your 401K, but you simply must get the Time-Life series. Invaluable source of quick and easy reference for the entire war, and great maps, too. Some of the contributing authors include William C. Davis, Bud Robertson, William Frassanito, and David Nevin, to name a few. These guys aren't hacks. A while back C-SPAN Book TV had an interview with Gary Gallagher, and they did a tour of his house. Incredible. He had several rooms with nothing but floor-to-ceiling bookshelves filled with hundreds (at least) of Civil War books. Now I wonder, when a guy like Gallagher needs to check on something, does he say to himself, 'Hmm, I remember reading that somewhere.' What does he do next? Suicide? Point is, I think I remember seeing the Time-Life series on one of his shelves. By the way, some of the best reading I've come across lately is right here on this discussion board. You guys are good — smart, witty, helpful, insightful, and just loopy enough to keep me coming back for more.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19th, 2007 03:10 pm |
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susansweet Member
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I know I know I know. I am still plotting how to get those books. My director of the museum knows I want them and also knows my fundings right now. She also knows how much work I put in to the Drum . So there may be a way to make a payment deal. We shall see. I also know I have some time before they will be put on sale as the guy who will price them is not around very often . By the way, some of the best reading I've come across lately is right here on this discussion board. You guys are good — smart, witty, helpful, insightful, and just loopy enough to keep me coming back for more. Well yeah , that would be us. If I want to know about the soldier or weapons I will ask Johan or Steve Cone, If I want to know battles or other information I will Ask Dave White, or Ole. Gettysburg I ask Basecat . Shiloh or Corinth I ask Calcav. That's just off the top of my head. Doc Fuller, Cleburne fan Joanie all are so well read and know so much about different aspects of the war. I know if I have a question that I can't find myself or can't get one of my round table friends here at home to answer I can count on all of the people here. Joe did a wonderful service when he created and continueds to maintain this website. (okay all you guys can pay me now)
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17th, 2008 09:17 pm |
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kj3553 Born in the wrong century 
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I am currently taking a break from *serious* reading and am reliving my misspent youth by reading several of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books. How's that for *low-brow* reading?
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18th, 2008 02:55 pm |
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ole Member
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Sounds like a fun diversion kj. Been a long time since I've read Burroughs. Or Jack London, for that matter. Currently reacquainting myself with Mark Twain. I have ready access to Twain and London, but I haven't seen Burroughs around. Maybe I should look? ole
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18th, 2008 03:32 pm |
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Marie Member 
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Ole, I've got a number of Burroughs Tarzan books that were gifts to my Dad during WWII. Fun reading  Jana
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18th, 2008 03:37 pm |
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ole Member
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Now you've done it Jana! ABEbooks, here I come! ole
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 04:23 pm |
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Am reading "Doubt: A History" by Jennifer Hecht, a biography of Clarence Darrow by Kevin Tierney, biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, a book called "Moral Geography" by Amy DeRogatis (that's for my own book I'm allegedly trying to write) and if that isn't enough, I'm listening to Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton. Plan to read some fiction this year so a friend checked out the short stories of Thomas Wolfe for me. Still hope to read some Faulkner this year. Best Rob
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 04:59 pm |
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susansweet Member
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How is the Alexander Hamiliton book ? I keep meaning to get it on cd to listen to as I like to have something to listen to in the car when I decide I want something besides music on longer drives. Susan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 05:22 pm |
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Susan, it's probably one of the best books I've read (listened?) to in a while. I really like Chernow's writing style and the story is very interesting. The revolutionary period hasn't held as much interest for me as it should, so I've been trying to slog my way through it, because really I don't think you can truly understand what happened during the Civil War unless you have a solid grounding in the previous years. I would highly recommend it. Best Rob
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 08:10 pm |
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Rob, Thanks so much . Hamiliton is one of those Revolutionary men I don't know much about except the duel. I will put this book on my list of books to purchase. susan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 11:45 pm |
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Johan Steele Life NRA,SUVCW # 48,Legion 352 
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Hellcat wrote: Currently I'm reading Jeff Shaara's To the Last Man. Right now it's pretty intresting what he's doing with Lufbery and von Richthofen. I'm not a fan of Shaara but I did enjoy To the Last Man immensely. First WW1 book I've read since Guns of August and in it's own way every bit as interesting to me.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22nd, 2008 11:53 pm |
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Johan Steele Life NRA,SUVCW # 48,Legion 352
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susansweet wrote: I know I know I know. I am still plotting how to get those books. My director of the museum knows I want them and also knows my fundings right now. She also knows how much work I put in to the Drum . So there may be a way to make a payment deal. We shall see. I also know I have some time before they will be put on sale as the guy who will price them is not around very often . Susan, if you have to choose between any Time Life books go for the "Echoes of Glory" set or whatever volume is available as there are none better. They set the benchmark IMO. Susan, you are a sweet (note how I got the last half of your screen name in), lovely grand lady of exceptional taste and charm w/ a bit of the muse in your literary writing. Where I not a happily married man I would court you in a most historically (CW era) accurate fashion. OK, payment made. 
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23rd, 2008 07:28 am |
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susansweet Member
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Johan , now you have made me blush. Thanks by the way my last name is Sweet. Can you imagine living with that name my whole life, only thing is my brother has to live with it too . I did mean what I said about this is where I come when I have a question . you all have been so helpful. I will have to look and see if we had a set of the Echo books at the Drum. I should know since I have reorganzied the whole library so people can find the books we do have. Next step is the list I am going to make of what personalities we don't have in biographies and what campaigns we don't have. Although I think I will have to reorganize the books again in a couple of months as we are getting a library donated soon. That's how we get most of our books, donations. It is supose to rain the next two days and we have a huge tour of kids coming on Thursday. Hopefully we have a rainy day plan!!! Susan
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23rd, 2008 05:12 pm |
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Dixie Girl Southern Belle 
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I am currently working on the book country music singer Trace Adkins wrote. Its a pretty good book. We share a lot of the same opions so it makes it easy to relate to him. He's a big Civil War buff to.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25th, 2008 03:58 am |
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Well I have more time on my hands than I know what to do with frankly. This is my last semester before I graduate (ha to those who thought I would be an "eternal colonel"), and a light semester at that. Compounding the issue is the fact that now that the holidays are over, my LP services are not so badly needed. When I'm not using my free time for working out, or making a fool of myself (a responsibility I take very seriously as this is my last semester), I have all the time I so deperately wanted before for reading. Just finished re-reading "Last stand of the tin can sailors", and am splitting my time between "With the old breed", and the Dresden files -a detective series with a wierd twist, in that the private detective is a wizard taking cases involving magic(certainly not my usual taste, but it is really well written for what it is and strangely addicting).
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