Down the River, Edward Abbey
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A Well Regulated Militia... by John J. Carpenter.
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The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstien
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Just started The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam. Have always been a Halberstam fan and this was his last book before he was killed. Was never reeally a student of the Korean War and couldn't think of anyone who could tell the story as well as him. This one has been on my list for a while.
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I am reading his book The Fifties-very good, well researched. A bit more about the Cold War than I wanted to read, though. I am sure something else was going on besides that-but I am only half way through it.
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Ben Hogan's Five Lessons - The Modern Fundamentals of Golf.
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Today I start Sacred by Dennis Lehane.
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I have been reading the entire Daniel Silva series this summer, right now I am reading The Messenger

Have read this summer so far:
The Kill Artist
The English Assassin
The Marching Season
The Confessor
A Death in Vienna
Prince of Fire
Moscow Rules
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"The Gift of Fear" by Gavin DeBecker
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - Stephen King
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Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
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Some of you avid readers may find this pass interesting.

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19634
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Halberstam definitely has a political point of view. I think he overplays it and I'm not sure that I agree with his political premise in the first place. I'm nearly 300 pages into The Coldest Winter and he really hasn't written much about the war. But, I've read plenty about how MacArthur was a dork and Dean Acheson was the savior of the free world.
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I have a couple books going simultaneously:

Glenn Beck's Common Sense, inspired by Thomas Paine (a quick read)
The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castenada (never read Castenada before, decided to start this a few weeks ago at the beach)
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear (seriously complex scifi)
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Just finished The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. Classic noir.
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Castenada was a bit of a fraud, but this is an interesting read (the best I recall from decades in the past). I have heard - nota bene - I have heard, this is even a better read if the reader's also on peyote. :-)
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The Case for Christianity - CS Lewis
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Finished Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane. Last of the Kenzie/Gennaro series. Now I guess I read Shutter Island. He needs to write faster...lol
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Star Trek: Enterprise The First Mission
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Cool cigar mention in My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, en iTouch...

“So the guy bought a case of expensive cigars,” he says, “and had them insured against fire for $15,000. Next thing you know, the insurance company gets a claim, saying all the cigars were lost in a series of small fires.”

“He smoked them?” I say, washing the soap out of Jesse’s hair.
Brian leans against the threshold of the door.

“Yeah. But the judge ruled that the company guaranteed the cigars as insurable against fire, without defining acceptable fire.”…

"So who subpoenaed you?” I ask Brian. “The defendant?”

“The prosecution. The insurance company paid out the money, and then had him arrested for twenty-four counts of arson.”…

“The judge threw out the case, right?”

“The judge sentenced him to twenty-four consecutive one-year terms,” Brian says.

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