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  • This is an update.

    Since I have to. I guess. Pith helmets are fantastic. Mine is the honest-to-goodness African explorer look. It's pretty big (the pith is at least 1/2" thick) but incredibly light. For ventilation, there are eyelets…

  • Circus

    I found this book waiting for me in a PaperBackSwap package when I got home one day last week. By lunch the next day, I'd finished it. Alistair MacLean's Circus Published in 1975, Circus is one of MacLean's last…

  • The Satan Bug

    Apparently I have an audience that enjoys the so-called reviews I thought I was inflicting on my friends list. This does flatter me, I admit. *g* Sometimes I get really lazy and don't want to do them; writing IS an eff…

  • Fear Is The Key

    Back when I first started reading Alistair MacLean, I was enthralled and wanted to share my find with the world. It was disconcerting to discover how hard writing a review was. "Hah!" you'll say. "How many words and p…

  • I've compromised. It's now the recycle can, not the wastebasket, that's handy for kicking over. It won't make such a mess when I tump it over, but will give no less satisfaction. --- In addition to the heaps of Nero …

  • More Cussler-inspired-by-MacLean

    This is too fun. Today I've found not one, not two, but three more attributes/imitations of MacLean's writing. The first was the subtlest, so I gave it the benefit of the doubt. But after three? Not a chance! Especia…

  • I'm reading Clive Cussler books again. That is, I'm skimming Cussler books, during my lunch breaks at work. Skimming gives me the meat of the action, while avoiding his more purpleish prose. He's acknowledged to be hea…

  • Alistair MacLean - Four Reviews

    Although I've been reading MacLean books for years, as I've found them at libraries and used book stores, only three made it into my favorites list. These are The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, and Ice Station Zeb…

  • On Alistair MacLean

    I don't believe I've ever written about Alistair MacLean on here. He is one of my all-time favorite authors, and is the best and only author I've found who gives me exactly what I want in the action/espionage area. He…

  • Brief school AAR (After Action Report) and the day's quote

    The test was hard. Very hard. I've never had a professor want so much extrapolation during the test. I know it's legitimate for a professor to test on anything in the text; but usually they stick to the problems an…

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