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bionov wrote:"Killing Patton" by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
The strange death of World War II's most audacious general.
A friend of my dad was telling me of the whole Killing So-and-So series O'Reilly's doing. He was really talking up the Killing Jesus one. Personally I don't think I'll read any of them; I can't stand Bill O'Reilly.

I'm sure the books might be interesting, and I don't knock others for reading his books, but I can't stomach too much hatred and stupidity rolled up into one barely human package.
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Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin.
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
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Movie Nerd: Re "Brando's Smile"--the author presents him as an unschooled intellectual; a poor speller with a remarkably keen mind and constant thirst for knowledge on a vast array of subjects. His personal library contained books on virtually every conceivable subject, and he filled the margins with his own notes and conclusions. Auctioned after his death, his collection of books, scripts and notebooks generated many thousands of dollars. This is a Marlon Brando far different from the "movie star" persona that Hollywood created.
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Hal Henry wrote:Movie Nerd: Re "Brando's Smile"--the author presents him as an unschooled intellectual; a poor speller with a remarkably keen mind and constant thirst for knowledge on a vast array of subjects. His personal library contained books on virtually every conceivable subject, and he filled the margins with his own notes and conclusions. Auctioned after his death, his collection of books, scripts and notebooks generated many thousands of dollars. This is a Marlon Brando far different from the "movie star" persona that Hollywood created.
Oh, now I am interested. Anyone who is a natural autodictate is my kind of guy.
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Re: "Killing Patton." About a year ago, I read "Killing Lincoln" at the request of my local library club, to write a review. I found the book rife with historical errors, and had not desire to read any of O'Reilly's other "Killing" books.
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Cattleman wrote:Re: "Killing Patton." About a year ago, I read "Killing Lincoln" at the request of my local library club, to write a review. I found the book rife with historical errors, and had not desire to read any of O'Reilly's other "Killing" books.
My friend who brought up the Killing books specifically brought up the Jesus one (he and my dad do Bible study together), and he kept talking about how factual it was, and not based on religious dogma. I suspected it might be full of errors though, and after what you said I think I'll stick to not reading it.
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I just picked up a used hardcover copy of Yann Martel's LIFE OF PI the other day at a book sale down at the library. Some of you may remember the movie they came out with, either last year or this year, with the CGI tiger. It was suposed to won a lot of awards.

Anyway, the book is pretty good so far, though there seems to be a lot of baggy material pertaining to the protagonist's dad's zoo and all, and it bogs the pacing down a lot. But I'm still working through it; it's good enough for me to still be interested.
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The Annotated 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' ... Martin Gardiner's compelling (so far) study of the S.T. Coleridge poem; beginning with a discussion of the four possibly correct ways of pronouncing the poet's name.
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Movie Nerd: I read "Life of Pi" a couple of years ago. It was okay, a bit slow at times. :yawn: Had no desire to see the movie. :|
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Cattleman wrote:Movie Nerd: I read "Life of Pi" a couple of years ago. It was okay, a bit slow at times. :yawn: Had no desire to see the movie. :|
I agree that it's slow--it has an awful lot of backstory and religious theory, which is necessary to the plot but still bogs the story down tremendously. I've heard great things about the movie, between the cinematography and the soundtrack and the CGI tiger. One of these days I'll finally see it.
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