"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

I'm re-reading Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative, while also still making my way backwards and forwards through Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.

~ P.
 
I've just read Paul Webster's Petain's Crime (interesting, but not as eye-opening as Colin Smith's England's Last War Against France) and Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang, and just started Alexandra Fuller's The Legend of Colton H Bryant.
 
9blades said:
I new it i say I'm reading Star Wars and now every ones reading a classic............(overly dramatic voice) I feel like such a simpldeton. I guess the next thing I'm gonna read is the forum rules..........again
Oh and thanks for moving my post Peregrin!
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oh you have no idea
i am taking a break from all my star wars novels...got burnt out reading the first 7 of 9 (now 10) of the x-wing series
needed a change of pace ;)
 
Since I'm still on holiday, my eReader is getting more attention than usual :rolleyes:
Today I read "The minority report" by Philip K. Dick, and tomorrow I will start "Flow my tears, the policeman said".
That man knew a thing or two about SF :)

Fausto
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Rsmith_77 said:
oh you have no idea
i am taking a break from all my star wars novels...got burnt out reading the first 7 of 9 (now 10) of the x-wing series
needed a change of pace ;)
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I mostly read the stand alone ones I can't go thru that many syfi books.

How long dose it take you guys to read a 500 page book?
 
Jack Black said:
I've just read Paul Webster's Petain's Crime (interesting, but not as eye-opening as Colin Smith's England's Last War Against France) and Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang, and just started Alexandra Fuller's The Legend of Colton H Bryant.
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Jack you may aware of this already but they dug up Neds remains from a mass grave at Pentridge Gaol in Victoria and he has been properly laid to rest by his descendants-it was yesterday.
So maybe there is hope for cop killing horse thieves after all.
 
My generation gets a reputation for being irresponsible and kinda stupid..............sigh:D
And I quote starting at second 37:
"Oh safety ha ha fail ( shoots himself in the mouth with a airsoft gun) cough cough pant cough "are you ok?" (cousin walks in) noh i shoht mhy selhf ihn theh mouhth wihth a aihrsoft guhn long pause and the cousin says "it's not in your throat is it?".

Oh and the description reads "ouch. i had to go to the doctor. My cousin was there." [video]http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=DmAObaz3gjM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDmAObaz3gjM[/video]
 
meako said:
Jack you may aware of this already but they dug up Neds remains from a mass grave at Pentridge Gaol in Victoria and he has been properly laid to rest by his descendants-it was yesterday.
So maybe there is hope for cop killing horse thieves after all.
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No, I'd not heard that Meako, thanks for the info. I'll look into that further :thumbup:

I always think the English government should take some share of responsibility for a particular erroneous episode, and should wholeheartedly apologise to the Australian people, and indeed the world, for the fact Mick Jagger was in that rotten film! :D
 
MEAKO...Ive just read TALES OF THE OVERLAND..QUEENSLAND TO KIMBERLEY in 1885..by G.H . LAMOND......Tis a good read bro...Those were REAL! men....FES
 
A happy moment-- complete with pocket knife content. :)

[video=youtube;cjTqXsG_O2g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=cjTqXsG_O2g [/video]


~ P.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Who needs an MP3 player? Who needs an iPod? Who needs all those CD's? Who needs all those records?

I'm beginning to see my grandfathers wisdom of always having a harmonica around.
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Welcome to my world! I also always carry a harmonica. I've been playing for about 25 years -- performing with bands since the mid '90s. These days, I play out two or three times a month, in any number of formats, from an acoustic duo or trio, to a big electric blues/rock back, to a country/bluegrass group I sit in with. Also, I usually perform in my mom's church when I'm visiting Florida. I found out recently that I have two great-grandfathers who were harmonica players as well. I suspect there's a "harp gene" much like there's a knife knut gene.

When you get a chance, check out Jason Ricci on YouTube. I took lessons from him for a couple years in Florida in the late '90s/early '00s.

-- Mark
 
quattromori said:
Don't know if it's my favourite among his books...yet it's a great novel and very thought-provoking. Reading it "now" is quite an experience.

Fausto
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I read that one a year or so back. Not bad but didn't really "grab" me. I've read other alternative histories that I found more compelling. (The Plot Against America by Philip Roth comes to mind as one.)

Lonesome Dove is an old friend that gets revisited every few years.
 
Well... I´m reading "Messer Magazin" (Knife Magazine) which I got brandnew on wednesday. Unfortunatelly I read nearly all the articles. Then I´ll go back to Lew Tolstoi "War and Peace" - which is nothing to relax while reading...
 
Blues said:
I read that one a year or so back. Not bad but didn't really "grab" me. I've read other alternative histories that I found more compelling. (The Plot Against America by Philip Roth comes to mind as one.)

Lonesome Dove is an old friend that gets revisited every few years.
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I agree on Roth's book: it's very compelling, and a great read. The point about Philip K Dick's book, is that it's quite tangential to his other books, yet nice. My favourite among his books are the "harder" Sci-Fi novels though.
I will have to read "Lonesome dove" someday as well :)

Fausto
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The mini series Lonesome Dove is one of the best westerns ever made. The book, to quote the old cliche, is better. So much stuff that should have been in the movie, but wasn't. Robert Duvall aced Gus McCrae to a T! I've read, or started to read, some of McMurtry's other books, and I didn't care for them. One was about Pretty Boy Floyd. I guess I should give it another try. A co-worker gave me a copy of Crazy Horse by McMurtry, and that was a great book.

I seem to remember finding a collection of Philip K Dick short stories, I need to look for those. Robert Heinlein was also a good scifi author. I've only read Starship Troopers, after the movie came out, and The Puppet Masters. I will give Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep another go, Bladerunner is my favorite scifi movie and it only seems right to read the book. William Gibson was a favorite scifi author.

I will have to check out Roth's book, I've read some of the Turtledove novels, mainly the civil war novels.

I am reading Firearms Traps and Tools of the Mountain Men at home. Looking for something at work, I came across two books in my cubicle. One is Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake. The other is Louis L'Amour Five Complete Novels Series II. Utah Blaine, Crossfire Trail, Heller with a Gun, Last Stand at Papago Wells and To Tame a Land.

Looks like Firearms Traps and Tools might get put to the side for a little bit :D...
 
If you like horror, put down the Stephen King and Dean Koontz novels, and give HP Lovecraft a chance. I bought a hardcover collection of all of his prose, I think it was printed by Barnes and Noble. Some great stories.
 
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