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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Peat Sampras » 10 Dec 2011, 00:33

I read the latest Erik Winter novel, the dude likes his drams. He had a Longrow, a Littlmill (well) and an Ardbeg 1978...
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Mr Tattie Heid » 19 Dec 2011, 20:57

How the Scots Invented Canada, by Ken McGoogan.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby C57 » 19 Dec 2011, 21:25

andyt wrote:
C57 wrote:Bill Bryson - "Down Under".
Having recently finished "notes from a Small Island" and "A Walk in the Woods"

One of my favourites Nick, I just wish I had the chance to show both him and MrTH a different side of my home city.

Didn't he quite like Aberdeen in the end? (It is Aberdeen isn't it? :? )

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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Mr Tattie Heid » 19 Dec 2011, 21:33

One of these years, Andy....
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby whiskytime » 21 Dec 2011, 18:14

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami - Can't decide if I like it....strange book.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby whiskytime » 08 Feb 2012, 21:38

The Practical Distiller: An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits
by Samuel McHarry (Author)


It's a free download on the Amazon Kindle. It was first published in 1809.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Pete Smoke » 14 Feb 2012, 16:45

The Whisky Men - Gavin D Smith
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby two-bit cowboy » 15 Feb 2012, 03:29

How to Become a Really Good PAIN IN THE ASS
A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Quesitons

by Christopher DiCarlo
Great read. Makes you consider many vantages without "telling you" what to think/do.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby two-bit cowboy » 20 Apr 2012, 15:37

The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin

The US Secret Service boys should have read this before their trip to Columbia. Or, maybe they did.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby whiskytime » 20 Apr 2012, 16:52

My "family tree" - put together about 25 years ago by an aunt.... Was reading a 1906 letter my great grandfather wrote to his brother....he mentioned always having "Duffey's Malt Whiskey" in the house. In 1886, they made a malt whiskey they advertised as the "greatest known heart tonic". :lol:
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Postby Mr Tattie Heid » 20 Apr 2012, 17:29

Barometer Rising, by Hugh MacLennan. Thought it was about time I read a couple of this Canadian great's novels. This, his first, is set against the backdrop of the Halifax Explosion of 1917.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby C57 » 20 Apr 2012, 18:54

To Kill a Mockingbird
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby two-bit cowboy » 07 May 2012, 15:28

The Complaints by Ian Rankin. Good writer. Nice descriptions, fluid without bogging down the story.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Pudge72 » 07 May 2012, 15:47

two-bit cowboy wrote:The Complaints by Ian Rankin. Good writer. Nice descriptions, fluid without bogging down the story.


I'm a big fan of his lengthy 'Inspector Rebus' series of mystery novels (it starts with Knots and Crosses from 1987). Always interesting to this reader.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby whiskytime » 07 May 2012, 17:00

Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel

Another amazing book by Mantel. For sale May 8 (I have the Advance Review Copy). I highly recommend it. This is the second book in the trilogy following Wolf Hall.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Pete Smoke » 07 May 2012, 18:32

For several days now, the manual for an Olympus OM-D E-M5. This is sending me bonkers.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Peat Sampras » 07 May 2012, 19:17

Pete Smoke wrote:For several days now, the manual for an Olympus OM-D E-M5. This is sending me bonkers.


Always blame it on the manual :)
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby C57 » 07 May 2012, 20:47

Just finished The Silmarillion again. I know people find it difficult but I find it easier every time.
trouble is, nothing lives up to the language and scale afterwards so it's hard to know what to read next.

I'm reading Tom Sawyer for, would you believe, the first time :-o
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby whiskytime » 07 May 2012, 21:49

C57 wrote:Just finished The Silmarillion again. I know people find it difficult but I find it easier every time.
trouble is, nothing lives up to the language and scale afterwards so it's hard to know what to read next.

I'm reading Tom Sawyer for, would you believe, the first time :-o



That must be the key - I've only read Silmarillion once - liked it but it was a challenge. Lucky you to be reading Tom Sawyer for the first time! When you're done w/that & if you're still in the mood for Twain, you might want to read his Innocents Abroad - it's really funny. His travel diary through Europe, Egypt & the Holy Land. I go back to this book & read a chapter when I need a laugh.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Pete Smoke » 07 May 2012, 23:11

Peat Sampras wrote:
Pete Smoke wrote:For several days now, the manual for an Olympus OM-D E-M5. This is sending me bonkers.


Always blame it on the manual :)


Most of the time i blame the Mrs, the manual is a pleasant change. :D
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Mr Tattie Heid » 08 May 2012, 00:32

I thought we blamed everything on Willie.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Pete Smoke » 08 May 2012, 01:17

Admittedly, mine has got me into trouble on more than one occasion.



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Re: What are you reading?

Postby Peat Sampras » 08 May 2012, 18:20

At least the manual can't deny you sex :D
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby C57 » 08 May 2012, 20:59

whiskytime wrote:
C57 wrote:Just finished The Silmarillion again. I know people find it difficult but I find it easier every time.
trouble is, nothing lives up to the language and scale afterwards so it's hard to know what to read next.

I'm reading Tom Sawyer for, would you believe, the first time :-o



That must be the key - I've only read Silmarillion once - liked it but it was a challenge. Lucky you to be reading Tom Sawyer for the first time! When you're done w/that & if you're still in the mood for Twain, you might want to read his Innocents Abroad - it's really funny. His travel diary through Europe, Egypt & the Holy Land. I go back to this book & read a chapter when I need a laugh.

Thanks for the suggestion!
I have read quotes and I think I may do it next. I do like Samuel Clemens, but haven't read this particular book before. It's good.
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Re: What are you reading?

Postby two-bit cowboy » 10 May 2012, 13:54

Pudge72 wrote:
two-bit cowboy wrote:The Complaints by Ian Rankin. Good writer. Nice descriptions, fluid without bogging down the story.


I'm a big fan of his lengthy 'Inspector Rebus' series of mystery novels (it starts with Knots and Crosses from 1987). Always interesting to this reader.


The earliest 'Rebus' novel our local library has is Black & Blue. I plan to pick it up today while we're in town.
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