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     Thumper Veteran Poster Username: Thumper Post Number: 863 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Hello All, You all know that I was cleaning up my library a few months ago. I ran into my copy of Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years; 1963-65 by Taylor Branch. I hadn't read it, you know, due to my thick book phobia. But, now, I'm thinking about tackling the book. I did not know that the book is part of a series, which started with Parting The Waters. So, I am asking if anyone here have read any or the complete series by Branch? I'm wondering if its worth reading the series, I can't just read a part of it and stop. | ||
| Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3649 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Thumper: It is definitely worth reading the whole series. I did not read them in order, and unless you have a strong need for chronological order, I suggest you do not necessarily do so either. I began with "Pillar," thinking I'd connect with it since it begins when I was born. Then I worked my way back to "Parting." I have "Canaan's Edge" but never finished it. Now that you've put it back in my mind, I think I'll put the book back in my must-read queue. Regarding your "thick book phobia" where these books are concerned: Do not think of them as "books," but as collections of short stories. Really, that is what they are--a collection of narratives about these historical periods. | ||
| Thumper Veteran Poster Username: Thumper Post Number: 865 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Hello All, Yvettep: Thanks! OK, I'll start with Pillar and work myself around to the others. You know, it seems to me that the older I get, the more history books I want to read. The other day I bought The Wilderness Warrior, a biography of Theodore Roosevelt?? I've bought that Abraham Lincoln book by Ronald White a few months ago. Where in the hell did all of this come from, I can not tell you. I'm just going to have to suck it up that I'm getting old as hell. If I'm not worried about when my testicles are going to hit the floor when I sit down, I'm fighting with the hair that is determined to grow on my ears! I have a new respect for my Ol' Grayhead now. | ||
| Libralind2 AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Libralind2 Post Number: 1240 Registered: 09-2004 Rating: N/A |
Ummm Thumper...that was WAY too much information about your testies LOL LiLi | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2242 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
I hear you LiLi. And then he even threw my name in that mess- in the same line! Soooo, I only got respect after his hairy nuts hit the floor *lol*. | ||
| Thumper Veteran Poster Username: Thumper Post Number: 867 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Hello All, Ol' Grayhead, hell, you know I'm telling the truth. You, yourself, use to get on me when I talked about you being old as dirt, "keep on living, just keep on living". Well, I kept on living and now what aint started to sag, hair is growing on it. I'm giving you your props. *big smile* | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2245 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Keep your props, and my hairy sack out of your mouth *lol*. I mean, speak for yourself. I said keep on living. Yes, I said that, but I didn't say nothin', about nothin' saggin' on me. **slanted eye** | ||
| Thumper Veteran Poster Username: Thumper Post Number: 868 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Yeah, but just because you didn't say anything is saggin on you, don't mean that it aint. I know good and well stuff is saggin and wrinkledy, especially with you being 40 years older than me. You should be takin your bow, I'm giving you your "I told you so" moment. *LOL* | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2247 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Well thank you Thump. *** Carey takes a deep gracious bow. While bent over, his dentures fall from his mouth *** | ||
| Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3651 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
LOL @ all of y'all! Not to mention some body parts growing: ears, feet--but not the parts one might wish would grow. LOL | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2248 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
And what parts would that be, ol'naughty Doctor? I don't know about you and Thump. Well, I know one thing. I'm never going to watch a movie with you two. Nope, SAW-VI is in the theaters but I don't want to see any hairy draggin things while watching my movies. And I don't even know what Yvettep is trying to grow. I don't think she's talking about popcorn. Nope, I think I'll stay away from Mortissa and the rest of the Adams Family *lol*. |
