I've just finished reading the novel Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor, about the infamous Civil War prison for Union soldiers. Best book I've read in a while, and I've read some good ones. You?
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Ken Follett 'Pillars of the Earth' enjoying picking the editing and reconstruction for the TV Mini Series. This just popped up on my FB feed. well worth reading about how LL can mold a young mind.
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Just finished 'Lonely On The Mountain' for my fourth read. I just began to notch my books, so I know what re-read I'm on, just like a gunfighter notches his pistol for a kill. After that, which is increasingly becoming my favorite novel. I'm on my third read on that one. Putting L'Amour aside for awhile, I started reading 'The Pumpkin Rollers' by Elmer Kelton. Great book, but yet to find why they called it 'The Pumpkin Rollers', but I'm sure its in there. I'm only on chapter three and loving it. Tennessee Dave recommended this one and I'm grateful for that, since I have a hard time putting it down, since its so good.... Since I collect books, been looking for 'Hombre' by Elmer Kelton, the hard cover. Hard one to find, but that makes it better, since I enjoy the hunt....
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Remember what Louis says about putting notches on guns :7
Some said he had killed eighteen men. The cattle buyer in Dodge claimed the actual figure was twenty-nine. But all of it was talk and nobody knew for sure. Not being a tinhorn, Kilkenny filed no notches on his guns. Kilkenny, 1974
It was nothing to be proud of. Nobody but a tinhorn ever scratched notches on his gun, and I never would. To Tame A Land, 1940
Les Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
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Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
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I still have some of the books my mother Signed her name, along with the year she read the. They run from the nineties to 2000s. Then her eyes went bad.
Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
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I remember 'To tame a land very well... I do it just to keep track of my reading status, I would loved to have lived in a time when Louis walked those trails, just for a little bit (maybe an hour or so)…..Lol
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It was surprising to find that a lot of the places Louis wrote about in Flint are still there. The town of Mora, for example, has changed considerably, but smack in the middle, the old buildings still stand and appear occupied. Some of the buildings in the town where Flint got off the train near Acoma are still standing. On my first trip surprise greeted me when I recognized where that spot was...and where Flint had spent the night. The area remains untouched by time for the most part...or did the last time I was there. The Acoma have lived there for a thousand years and probably more. The people there have always been friendly toward strangers...a very attractive people. Their dress is both functional and beautiful.
"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN
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..... and I can just see LL'S brain churning away with his fingers tap, tap taping the typewriter keys seeing the same as you, just a whisker in time difference. A period in historical writing.
Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
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I'm not proud of being a tinhorn, but ya' gotta' have a little drama, even if its just a little paragon and just being cool, but maybe a little reckless in gun fights....Lol
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Ah, yes, The Pumpkin Rollers will forever be a perennial favorite of mine. The Man Who Rode Midnight is another favorite of mine by Melton, although a little different from TPR. KELTON was like Beau, not too tall.in the saddle to e-mail you back.
Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
