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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 18:37:51 GMT -5
And it can be updated today.  I noticed it left off a while back....definitely would be interested in what the author has to add for the missing time frame. |
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Post by miranda3 on Apr 15, 2015 18:38:15 GMT -5
Rhett was quite a man. : ) Have you read Rhett Butler's People or Ruth's Journey? Both are by Dan McCaig. Ruth's Journey is Mammy's story. It was a little hard to get into then suddenly I couldn't put it down. I've read Rhett Butler's People. I liked it better than the other sequel called Scarlett. I liked getting the backstory on Rhett and how it explained what he was doing during the periods of GWTW where he was absent. I hadnt heard of Ruth's Journey, but I will try to look for it now that I know about it. Thanks! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 21:51:16 GMT -5
Here's a book I need to get - Triumph Forsaken - Mark Moyar The Vietnam War ended when I was 14. I had teacher's in school who had fought there and told us stories about what it was like. How they had been in the jungle, without ammo because Congress kept cutting the funding because of the anti-war sentiment back home. Later on, I was engaged to a guy whose family had been career Army and he'd been in 'Nam. He'd been on the copters that went in and pulled out the wounded and the dead. He would talk about the women and children who would run up and grab onto the landing rails and hang on, with bombs strapped to them to try and blow up the copters. They had to shoot them or kick them off or they'd all have blown up. At the same time, my roommate had a lot of friends who'd served in 'Nam. Several who'd been in Special Forces and when they'd sleep over on the couch, you knew to not go near them while they were asleep. I don't think I'll ever forget the smell of jungle rot. One of my girlfriend's dad was career Air Force. A navigator who sat just over the tanks of Agent Orange they sprayed over the jungle. Within 6 months of when they began that, he had his first problems with prostrate cancer. The VA kept his hospital records sealed for years. He died the year before I got married so it would have been 1988. Took a very long time for the cancer to run it's course but it got him in the end. The VA was still denying that it was Agent Orange when he died. What I know about Vietnam comes largely from the people who were there and survived. |
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Post by lauriej on Apr 16, 2015 1:27:33 GMT -5
Have you read Rhett Butler's People or Ruth's Journey? Both are by Dan McCaig. Ruth's Journey is Mammy's story. It was a little hard to get into then suddenly I couldn't put it down. I've read Rhett Butler's People. I liked it better than the other sequel called Scarlett. I liked getting the backstory on Rhett and how it explained what he was doing during the periods of GWTW where he was absent. I hadnt heard of Ruth's Journey, but I will try to look for it now that I know about it. Thanks! I enjoyed Rhett Butler's People as well. I agree "Scarlett" was dreadful. I couldn't even finish it. I always knew there were 3 main characters in GWTW, Rhett, Scarlett & Mammy! Ruth's Journey explains so much. |
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Post by miranda3 on Apr 16, 2015 14:14:07 GMT -5
I couldn't finish Scarlett either. I tried to read it two or three times, but eventually I just gave up and looked up the ending on wikipedia.
There is also another companion book about Scarlett's biracial sister who was supposed to be the product of an affair between Gerald O'Hara and Mammy. Of course no such character was ever mentioned in GWTW. I haven't read this but I saw it while browsing on Amazon.
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Post by lauriej on Apr 16, 2015 20:17:03 GMT -5
I hadn't heard of that one. Given Mammy's character, I can't see her allowing herself to be dishonorable to Ellen, same with Gerald. He was besotted by Ellen from the moment he met her.
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Post by miranda3 on Apr 16, 2015 22:50:19 GMT -5
I agree, neither Mammy nor Gerald would have ever done that. Gerald was probably my favorite character besides Rhett and Scarlett.
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Post by miranda3 on Apr 19, 2015 23:05:24 GMT -5
Now reading Michael Connelly's first Harry Bosch book (The Black Echo). Finished The Last Don earlier today.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 19:17:05 GMT -5
After I finish my history book, next up is the latest Savannah Reid book.
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Post by kora on Apr 23, 2015 17:58:51 GMT -5
Just finished John Sanford's "Deadline." Good one. When Virgil Flowers and some of his "friends" use cuss words, it's so funny. I like his Davenport character, too.
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Post by monkeesfan on Apr 27, 2015 14:56:48 GMT -5
Some other Paul Johnson books I have - INTELLECTUALS
A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLEThat's some reading Mike....A History of the American People is a thousand pages.  I also screwed it up - I meant to say MODERN TIMES: THE WORLD FROM THE 20S TO THE 90S |
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Post by miranda3 on May 7, 2015 20:03:43 GMT -5
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