Blades upon Books - Traditionals

[Jolipapa]

 

[JB in LV]

Answer: 82 Dixie Stockman.



Question: Among GEC’s best?

 

[dantzk8]

Cormac McCarthy. "Blood meridian or the evening redness in the west". A masterpiece.

Dan.

 

[Zachary]

2 of my favorite knives from A.G. Russell a pinched peanut and a splinter picker in Mammoth ivory with 1 of my favorite books, a complete collection of Yukon stories from Jack London.

 

[Jolipapa]

I was not 10 when one thursday morning my GrandMa went for breakfast's croissants and came back with the first of a long line..?

 

[Chui]

........aside from Monsieur Macron and his speed restriction my favourite place to play on two wheels...

Ok, forgive me..........I know it's not a book as such, however, with the help of this fine copy, I have weaved my way through many beautiful C and D roads - all tell a fine story in themselves

 

[screened porch]

I was not 10 when one thursday morning my GrandMa went for breakfast's croissants and came back with the first of a long line..?
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I love Asterix. I have Asterix the Legionary, Asterix and Cleopatra, and maybe Asterix the Gaul. Somewhere. The Druid's name is Getafix in English, something else in German, I never saw one in French.

 

[5K Qs]

A month ago I mentioned that I still had 2 Asimov novels to read, but was going slower since Labor Day. I'm STILL working on this last novel. For some reason, I can't seem to build any momentum in this one so far. (Doesn't help that my bedtime reading lately proceeds at a pace of about 2 pages per night before I fall asleep!)


- GT

 

[leghog]

 

[leghog]

 

[Jolipapa]

[COTE="scrteened porch, post: 19311197, member: 312952"]I love Asterix. I have Asterix the Legionary, Asterix and Cleopatra, and maybe Asterix the Gaul. Somewhere. The Druid's name is Getafix in English, something else in German, I never saw one in French.

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It is the first album, published in a new weekly comic, named Pilote, very different of the Belgian Tintin & Spirou weeklies. Original druid's name is Panoramix, little dog is Idéfix (idée fixe # obsession), bard is Assurancetourix (Assurance tous risques # comprehensive insurance), chief is Abraracourcix (à bras raccourcis # said when you dump someone heavily), fishmonger Ordralfabetix (ordre alphabétique # alphabetical order).
Roman camps are Babaorum (baba au rhum - rum baba), and Petibonum (petit bonhomme # little guy).
The first sentence "Nos ancêtres les Gaulois" (our ancestors the Gauls) was in all school books in France, and also in all the colonies, including Africa and Indochina.

 

[screened porch]

[COTE="scrteened porch, post: 19311197, member: 312952"]I love Asterix. I have Asterix the Legionary, Asterix and Cleopatra, and maybe Asterix the Gaul. Somewhere. The Druid's name is Getafix in English, something else in German, I never saw one in French.

It is the first album, published in a new weekly comic, named Pilote, very different of the Belgian Tintin & Spirou weeklies. Original druid's name is Panoramix, little dog is Idéfix (idée fixe # obsession), bard is Assurancetourix (Assurance tous risques # comprehensive insurance), chief is Abraracourcix (à bras raccourcis # said when you dump someone heavily), fishmonger Ordralfabetix (ordre alphabétique # alphabetical order).
Roman camps are Babaorum (baba au rhum - rum baba), and Petibonum (petit bonhomme # little guy).
The first sentence "Nos ancêtres les Gaulois" (our ancestors the Gauls) was in all school books in France, and also in all the colonies, including Africa and Indochina.
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I should get some more of those.
Panoramix is good. I guess we had to go for the cheap druggie joke.

 

[Peregrin]

TGIF!
Lee Child, always a good read, IMO. Burt Foster Dark Side and AG Russell Mammoth Pinched Peanut, always a good around the town carry, IMO.
A little bit too much yellow in that image. Sorry about that.

 

[Headwinds]

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

I've never read Asterix in anything but English, but the wife and I have watched several in French. Really enjoyed them both ways.

 

[North Shore]

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

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Please tell about those beauties.

 

[5K Qs]

TGIF!
Lee Child, always a good read, IMO. Burt Foster Dark Side and AG Russell Mammoth Pinched Peanut, always a good around the town carry, IMO.
A little bit too much yellow in that image. Sorry about that.
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I agree, Gary. I think I've read all of the Reacher novels at least once. And even though I complained last night that I was stalled out on finishing the last of my Asimov Foundation novels, I did manage to read an entire collection of Jack Reacher short stories last week; very enjoyable!

- GT

 

[JB in LV]

I botched my way into a kind of cool picture. I do mostly read on my iPad.

I like old baseball books: One NL club disclosed $250,505 receipts in 1912, misgivings about players organizing, Red Sox World Series Champions. Hmmph.

 

[donn]

I've been enjoying some classic American fiction recently.