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A slice of real, hard core life from the frontier where evreything out there is out to get you , at best...
if the Commanches or Mexican bandits get you its choose your torture time, the indians like to see if they can get a tree to grow up your fundament and out the other end while you are still alive,
the Black Vaquero offers the pit of snakes and spiders (replenished each day by the old hags), or hung off the cliff in a cage to live off birds before the vultures get you...then theres the skinning alive...
Whats the book , whos the writer ? :wink:
First Among Equals - Geoffrey Archer :thumbsup:
northwind
06-02-07, 05:25 PM
Paddington Returns To Deepest Darkest Peru, by Michael Bond
philipMac
06-02-07, 06:11 PM
:D :D :D
Funny eh?
You think that's funny?
Next time you are in Peru, badly strung out for some marmalade, we will see how funny it seems then.
A bitta sensitivity to the Bear's plight is all I'm asking boss.
El Saxo
06-02-07, 06:24 PM
Hairy Biker's Cookbook? :lol:
Oh, you're one of those readers!
Look everyone, we got ourselves a reader...
Guess the comedian hotshot...
northwind
06-02-07, 06:38 PM
Oh, you're one of those readers!
Look everyone, we got ourselves a reader...
Guess the comedian hotshot...
"Whatcha reading for?"
"Well, Goddamnit, you stumped me! Why do I read? Why do I read? I guess I read for lots of reasons, the main one being so I don't end up being a ****in' Waffle waitress."
CoolGirl
06-02-07, 07:57 PM
dunno, but it sounds like a Dan Walsh road trip.
Tiger 55
06-02-07, 09:55 PM
I'm shooting with Commanche Moon by Larry McMurtry.
But I have been wrong.....................from time to time........
david beckhams autobiography ?
Tiger 55 - bulseye
Lonesome Dove , Commanch Moon, now reading Dead Mans Trail...have you read it?
Great books - agreed? 8)
Tiger 55
07-02-07, 08:01 AM
He shoots he scores!
Haven't read any of them, I'm just a smartarse. :shock:
Supervox
07-02-07, 08:07 AM
:D :D :D
Funny eh?
You think that's funny?
Next time you are in Peru, badly strung out for some marmalade, we will see how funny it seems then.
A bitta sensitivity to the Bear's plight is all I'm asking boss.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Can anyone tell me if coffee is harmful to a laptop screen / keyboard as mine just got sprayed !!
I'm shooting with Commanche Moon by Larry McMurtry.
But I have been wrong.....................from time to time........
Amazing what you can find by googling 'Black Vaquero' innit :lol: :lol: :lol:
Tiger 55
07-02-07, 10:37 AM
Amazing what you can find by googling 'Black Vaquero' innit :lol: :lol: :lol:
They're on to me....
Sid Squid
07-02-07, 10:50 AM
Oh, you're one of those readers!
Look everyone, we got ourselves a reader...
Guess the comedian hotshot...
Bill Hicks.
Oh, you're one of those readers!
Look everyone, we got ourselves a reader...
Guess the comedian hotshot...
"Whatcha reading for?"
"Well, Goddamnit, you stumped me! Why do I read? Why do I read? I guess I read for lots of reasons, the main one being so I don't end up being a ****in' Waffle waitress."
Bill Hicks.
Who else!
Back on topic, I don't read westerns.
Never too late to start :P
That goes for the rest of you brain aches !!!! :shock:
I was hoping the winner would set another puzzler - but i dk if V55 could mange that without an algorithm to help ..... :wink: :) :D :roll:
Never too late to start :P
That goes for the rest of you brain aches !!!! :shock:
I refer reality based stuff.
I just finished The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer. A true story of war on the Russian front.
Fiction leaves me cold, some dude/dudette making sh!t up...
well, the Lonseome Dove books are incredibly well researched , he has a great gift for dialogue and i love his portrayals of the Comanche, Apache, Kikapoo etc - really fantastic. Why dont you give it a go...i think people think its gonna be corny and sentimental but its as hard as nails.... :wink:
philipMac
07-02-07, 03:50 PM
I have said it before, and I will say it again. "A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich", by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is an outstanding book.
I am not sure why it is so good, Solzhenitsyn's style is very agreeable to me. No bollox, no hyperbole or "flowery pretty language", very very simple sentences. Which manage to be gems. All of them...
Also, although its pretty hideous, "The Painted Bird", by Kosinski is good. Apparently he wrte the book, and continued to re-write it until he had distilled every chapter more or less to a single page.
Maybe its the programmer in me. I love succinct elegant language.
Personal preference and I'll be the judge of what I find hard as nails thanks very much. There's a lot of naivety in fiction, some of us just see it easier than others.
Personal preference and I'll be the judge of what I find hard as nails thanks very much. There's a lot of naivety in fiction, some of us just see it easier than others.
That's a bit harsh. :P
I prefer fiction to non-fiction. Reality is harsh but the imagination can take us anywhere.
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