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For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world\'s largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.
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6:20, ¶My son, keep thy father\s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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Books: ''Riptide''
by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
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Published: 1998; Pages: 417; Rating: Good
This is a nice science fiction book with a historical background based upon an actual missing treasure. No doubt about it. Have you ever heard of Oak Island and the lost treasure? I have seen mention of it in various Readers Digest magazines as an interesting story and come across it in other odd and end places. In fact there was a show on either the Discovery Channel or the History Channel a while back that covered all the various expeditions that attempted to find this mythical buried treasure.
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Posted by Webmaster on Saturday, September 11 @ 14:10:03 EDT (855 reads)
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Books: ''Angels & Demons''
by Dan Brown
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Published: 2000; Pages: 572; Rating: Great
“Angels & Demons” was a book actually written before the mammoth bestseller, “The Da Vinci Code.” As so often happens with a new author, his second book became his breakout book and thus led his new readers to go back and read his first book. It was the same thing that happened with John Grisham when he first broke out of the pack and became a big time author. Remember his book “The Firm” that became a huge bestseller, but it was his second one. His first book was “A Time To Kill” which did not sell well until all ‘The Firm” readers went back and read it. In fact, they later made both of these books into movies.
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Posted by Webmaster on Friday, September 10 @ 15:03:09 EDT (876 reads)
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Books: ''The Da Vinci Code''
by Dan Brown
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Published: 2003; Pages: 454; Rating: Great
Fantastic book and full of historical references that for some reason appear to be left out of our mainstream history books? Is there a conspiracy here? Are there descendents of Jesus Christ roaming the world as a result of a union with Mary Magdalene? What happened to the Holy Grail? Was Mary Magdalene sitting right beside Jesus in the Da Vinci painting "The Last Supper?"
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Posted by Webmaster on Thursday, September 09 @ 13:46:02 EDT (865 reads)
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Books: ''Mind Catcher''
by John Darnton
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Published: 2002; Pages: 387; Rating: Good
This is a pretty good science fiction book and it did not even have any monsters in it. If you like computers, high technology, leading edge medical experiments, good guys and bad guys, then you might like this one. It has a bit of all plus a few other odds and ends including a brief bit of mountain climbing.
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Posted by Webmaster on Monday, September 06 @ 13:17:43 EDT (855 reads)
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Books: ''Angels Flight''
by Michael Connelly
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Published: 1999; Pages: 393; Rating: Good
Harry Bosch, he is the man and no doubt about it. This guy is one of, if not the best, repeating character I know of in our current selection of mystery writers. He is classic in his own time and over the years the guy may stand out even more. No superpowers does he have. He is not a millionaire and does not have all the women hanging all over him, as most men without light shoes would like to have. He does not beat up everyone and he is not smarter than everyone either. So what makes him so interesting in these mystery books?
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Posted by Webmaster on Friday, September 03 @ 13:06:09 EDT (904 reads)
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Books: ''The Corrections''
by Jonathan Franzen
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Published: 2002; Pages: 592; Rating: Boring
This book was almost 600 pages long and all but the last 50 pages were horribly boring. It slowly follows the trails of various family members who are all on individual paths and locations. The mother is having to deal with a husband in his final years and is suffering from dementia, memory loss, and general weakness that keeps him from functioning normally. The kids are living away in other cities and do not see directly what the mom is having to go through each day in an attempt to lead a normal life.
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Posted by Webmaster on Monday, August 30 @ 18:16:15 EDT (856 reads)
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Books: ''The Shelters Of Stone''
by Jean M. Auel
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Published: 2002; Pages: 751; Rating: Bad
The original “Clan Of The Cave Bear” by Jean Auel was a classic book that someday I will read again. But, I believe she has stayed with this series of characters and this storyline way too long as evidenced by this book. This is the fifth one in the “Earth Children” series began by “Clan of the Cave Bear” and it is the worst one when it comes to reading this one from beginning to end.
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Posted by Webmaster on Sunday, August 22 @ 22:07:02 EDT (877 reads)
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Books: ''The Blue Nowhere''
by Jeffery Deaver
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Published: 2001; Pages: 426; Rating: Good
I kind of like Jeffery Deaver as a mystery book writer although some do not put him in the pure mystery category. He has one character in some books that is repeated, Lincoln Rhyme the paraplegic. But in many of his other books including this one the characters are all new. The central theme he does maintain is that of having a protagonist that is a serial killer. He kills well too. In fact, have you noticed that the more gory and graphic a writer can make his murders, the more the book appears to sell? Seems that way to me anyway.
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Posted by Webmaster on Saturday, August 21 @ 20:54:40 EDT (973 reads)
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Books: ''What Should I Do With My Life'' by Po Bronson
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Published: 2002; Pages: 370; Rating: Fair
What in the world should I do with My Life? This book was being passed around at work and eventually wound up at my desk since my office mates know I read just anything and everything that comes off the printing press. I was a bit skeptical of reading stories about people who quit high paying jobs and decided to be a car wash worker instead, and in reality that is what some of these stories were about. And my skepticism was fairly well founded.
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Posted by Webmaster on Saturday, August 07 @ 22:43:18 EDT (886 reads)
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Books: ''Bleachers'' by John Grisham
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Published: 2003; Pages: 163; Rating: Great
Here I am heading into Father’s Day weekend and packing for a way off trip to India when in comes an email from my cousin in Houston. Her husband Stan had just finished this book and said he was sure I would like it because it was about a football coach in a small town. Sound familiar? Ring any bells? For some reason after reading many of John Grisham's books, I would never have associated him with football and small towns.
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Posted by Webmaster on Sunday, June 27 @ 07:50:10 EDT (1392 reads)
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Books: ''The Poet'' by Michael Connelly
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Published: 1996; pages: 500; Rating: Excellent
I just met Michael Connelly at a book signing event in Houston where he signed his latest Harry Bosch novel, “The Narrows” for me. The Narrows is a sequel to this book, “The Poet” which at that point I had not read and no copy was available at the store. No way I wanted to read a sequel without visiting the prequel so Tinker Ivey came to the rescue and loaned me this one. This one does not feature Harry Bosch but it does feature that cold blooded killer, “The Poet.” Harry Bosch comes along later in the sequel.
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Posted by Webmaster on Sunday, June 20 @ 18:40:18 EDT (901 reads)
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Books: Flyboys
by James Bradley
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Published 2003; Pages 395; Rating: Excellent
Someone at work dropped this book on me one Friday afternoon and it turned out to be a spectacular book of history covering an event during World War II that I had never heard of before. Everyone has heard of the island of Iwo Jima and the famous picture of our soldiers raising the American Flag when that battle was won. Surely you saw John Wayne putting those stars in the air in his famous movie. What I did not know is there was an island right next to Iwo Jima called Chichi Jima where American Flyboys were bombing a Japanese communications outpost at the very same time the famous flag raising was happening. This book is about the American Chichi Jima Flyboys that were shot down and captured and died on this island.
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Posted by Webmaster on Friday, May 21 @ 21:04:24 EDT (1060 reads)
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Books: From A Buick 8
by Stephen King
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Published 2002; Pages 356; Rating: Good
Stephen King's first published book after the car accident that almost cost him his life. The accident where he was strolling down the side of the road and a lunatic not watching what he was doing ran over him. Or rather hit him and knocked him out of his watch and stripped the change from his pocket. The hat he had been wearing was found 20 yards from where he was found.
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Posted by Webmaster on Friday, March 26 @ 11:47:04 EST (944 reads)
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Books: Been There, Done That
by Eddie Fisher
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Published 1999; Pages: 340; Rating: Excellent
Eddie Fisher, what a character. I was browsing through the On Cue bookstore in Corsicana one day and happened upon this one. Looking through the inside of the cover, it looked like this fella had led one interesting life. I put it on my Christmas list and lo and behold, on Christmas morning I unwrapped a gift from my father and there it was. Good book too! Took me a couple of months to get to it, but it was worth the wait reading about all the exploits this guy had during his many years in the entertainment industry.
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Posted by Webmaster on Friday, March 12 @ 19:17:01 EST (1034 reads)
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Books: Monica's Story
by Monica Lewinsky
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Non-Fiction - Published 1999; 288 Pages; Rating: Good
Great Book! And it had pictures too! Won't tell you what kind of pictures, but they were interesting. A couple of them were of Monica and Bill in the Oval Office and what I am really curious about....who took those pictures?
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Posted by Webmaster on Sunday, February 29 @ 22:35:06 EST (1168 reads)
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 problem drinker, n.:
A man who never buys.
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