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Post by burner on May 12, 2008 23:03:33 GMT -5
Hero cop's novel published posthumously
"The Wolfman," a science-fiction novel written by 28 year old NYPD Auxiliary Police Officer Nicholas Pekearo, is being released tomorrow (May 13, 2008) by Tor Books...a little more than a year after Officer Pekearo and fellow officer, Eugene Marshalik, were killed in a Greenwich Village confrontation. Pekearo learned, just days before his death, that his novel would be published. The story follows the life of a crime-fighting werewolf.
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Post by bluepride on Jul 18, 2008 18:01:45 GMT -5
It took me a while to say the least but I finally finished Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead". Howard Roark is a hero to me. I identify with him in a lot of ways. And in those instances where I don't, I at least try to.
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Post by bluepride on Aug 10, 2008 9:08:37 GMT -5
"The Cell" {Inside The 9/11 Plot, And Why The FBI And CIA Failed To Stop It"}. Written by John Miller, ABC News, Michael Stone, with Chris Mitchell. It details the failings by the FBI, the CIA, the NYPD and others regarding 9/11 and before. Going back to the 1980's, it links various names that you'd know from way back up until 9/11. A lot of it is related from people who were in positions of investigation back then and were thwarted by the higher-ups, for the weakest of reasons. binLaden had his hands in a lot of activities back as far as the early 1990's. And to think that some of the earliest plotting took place literally 2 or 3 blocks from my apartment in the late 80's. No wonder I trust NO Muslim. Ever.
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Post by maxwelldaemon on Sept 26, 2008 21:29:02 GMT -5
I recently finished "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls. I carried it around for a while before opening it. One I started it, it was hard to put down. It's a memoir of the rather "odd" family situation within which the author was raised. If you think your family was "different," give this book a try. Definitely an interesting way to teach children to be independent! An interesting side note; the author's brother, Brian, recently retired from the NYPD as a Sergeant...
Now I decided to pick up something lighthearted...
"The Plague" by Albert Camus...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2008 16:41:03 GMT -5
On Friday, Stephen and I are driving back to Maryland on business. He likes to drive so I'll catch up on rereading some of the books I enjoyed years ago. I'll start with "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. It's about what happens in a small African village with the arrival of 18th century English missionaries and other questionable characters.
It talks about how centuries of traditional African religion is destroyed by the introduction of Christianity. It talks about how non stop social, economic, and military assaults took away their masculinity and helped to create the colapse of the family. It makes us remember the old African saying, "when the missionaries arrived in Africa, the missionaries had the Bible and the Africans had the land. Then, after a generation or so, the Missionaries had the land and the Africans had the Bible." This is good reading for all marginalized people.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2008 8:20:12 GMT -5
I've decided to read 'Anything But Straight" by Wayne Besen one more time. It's a great book in that it talks about self loathing gays, their sad, lonely, miserable lives and the poisons that they spread.
"These poor souls are truly the wretched of the earth. They are repulsed by what they see when they look in the mirror. So they identify with, and seek favor from our enemies. They smile with them, they join them, they joke with them and They beg for any crumb that may fall from their table. They hide in the crowds of those who worship while they pray for absolution that will never come. The only community they respect is the one that has no respect for them. They want to spread their misery through us like a plague hoping that we will drown and join them in the septic. They are truly the wretched of the earth."
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Post by hoosiercop on Oct 28, 2008 8:11:46 GMT -5
Heck, I'm still trying to finish my "Where's Waldo?" book!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2008 9:08:25 GMT -5
I am so into this book "Anything But Straight". It really focuses on our enemies within our community and how self loathing undremines us all. This book reminded me of a posting I did several months ago in Queer Quotes. I think it deserves repeating here.....
From "Boys In The Band", Harold said, "You're nothing but a sad and pathetic little man. You're a homosexual and you don't want to be one. But there's nothing you can do about it. Not all the therapy you can get, not all the prayers in the world to your God can change the fact that you're a homosexual. Oh you may be able to have a straight life if you want to. If you want it bad enough. If you go after it with all the stregnth you have. But you will still be a homosexual. Always, always, and you will be a homosexual until the day you die".
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Post by admin on Oct 30, 2008 16:19:37 GMT -5
Currently reading "Magical Thinking" by Augusten Burroughs even though it's a couple of years old. Just getting around to reading it now. It's a series of true stories from his life that are mostly hilarious, from the time he was in a Tang commercial as a kid to the time he had sex with an undertaker in the funeral parlor which was the same one where Rose Kennedy was waked. He's also the author of "Running With Scissors" which was a detailed account of his insanely dysfunctional family and was a successful movie a couple of years ago. If you get a chance, try to catch it on cable. Every time you think situations in his family couldn't get any more bizarre, they become uber-bizarre. He has a series of books on the market and they're all gems as far as I'm concerned. A great gay writer. Among his best though, is "Dry". A serious, yet hilarious, and yet again serious accounting of his major battle with alcohol and drugs which nearly did him in. He's someone who's come back from the brink of death and has a great sense of humor about life. He'd actually fit in quite nicely on BP, what with his humor and all. And his seriousness. I think I could recommend anything he writes as well worth reading.
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Post by officerrhall on Mar 6, 2009 15:12:32 GMT -5
WOW WOW WOW .. so glad to see that some of you are reading Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead. Ayn Rand is one of my favourite authors. If any of you have not read the novella Anthem, please put it on your list to read. Here are a few URLS to the complete text online: www.pagebypagebooks.com/Ayn_Rand/Anthem/www.noblesoul.com/orc/texts/anthem/complete.html#A1.0And ... this was written in 1937. Lets talk about her writing and how it seems to mirror today's society! Currently reading (always have more than one book started): Unintended Consistences / John Ross Jarhead / Anthony Swofford Patriots Surviving the Coming Collapse / James Rawles Hard Eight / Janet Evanovich Gallic War / Julius Caesar (in Latin, and the Loeb Classical Library ed.) Die Arp Schnitger-Orgel der Hauptkirche St. Jacobi in Hamburg. Objectivismly, Officer Hall.
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Post by officerrhall on Mar 6, 2009 15:14:50 GMT -5
OH BROTHER ... this 'll teach me to edit more carefully:
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES it the correct title.
Officer Hall
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Post by tbgalileo on Mar 6, 2009 15:19:49 GMT -5
I'm just finishing up The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and I've just started The Art of War by Sun Tzu. I'm also perpetually reading a collection of Time Life books called What Life Was Like - they focus on different civilizations like the Egyptian period, Roman period, Elizabethan England, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2009 18:31:19 GMT -5
I just finished The Book Of Jewish Knowledge by Rabbi David E Cahn-lipman. It explains all of their rituals, texts, and traditions, as well as Jewish thought and values. It also provides information on all of the Jewish holidays as well as a complete history starting with the Roman period through the Holocaust. It's a very interesting book that provided me with a greater understanding of Jewish people.
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Post by bluepride on Mar 6, 2009 19:23:49 GMT -5
Just finished reading "Team Of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. About Abraham Lincoln, his life and his road to the White House. Part of his cabinet was made up of the very people he was running against for the Presidency. Very good book. And now currently reading "DiMaggio - Setting The Record Straight" by Morris Engelberg and Marv Schneider. Yeah, I know..... not exactly a brain wrenching book. Not even a very good one! But it's been sitting in my house for the longest time, so I figured I'd read it and get it out of the way. I was never a big Joe DiMaggio fan anyway. Actually I'm just trying to get it out of the way before I finally sit down and read "Circle Of Six (The True Story of New York's Most Notorious Cop Killer and The Cop Who Risked Everything to Catch Him)".
And...yes.........WHO IS JOHN GALT?
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Post by alarmallama on Mar 7, 2009 0:50:38 GMT -5
I'm reading "The Yellow Admiral" by Patrick O'Brian.
It's one of a series of 20 novels following two friends, one a British Naval officer and the other ship's doctor, naturalist and intelligence agent set during the years of the Napoleonic Wars. I got the whole series of hardback books as a birthday gift and I've really been enjoying them.
If you like historical fiction and don't mind stopping to look up nautical terms then this series, the Aubrey-Maturin series, is wonderful.
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