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Posted: May 31, 2005 7:16 pm
by Prthd119
Time for something light after the last one...
"Isle of Palms" by Dorothea Benton Frank....anyone with any ties to Charleston? It will take you right back home....
Posted: May 31, 2005 7:28 pm
by El mojito
Posted: May 31, 2005 9:13 pm
by weirdo0521
Posted: May 31, 2005 11:03 pm
by big hat carmen
Prthd119 wrote:Time for something light after the last one...
"Isle of Palms" by Dorothea Benton Frank....anyone with any ties to Charleston? It will take you right back home....
I just finished Shem Creek and loved it, romance with a happy ending, and talk about food.
Posted: May 31, 2005 11:41 pm
by BettyV
phjrsaunt wrote:Ummmmm... a little embarassed to admit I'm just now reading it, but WHERE IS JOE MERCHANT would be my current read.
That is a good one! He really spins some tall tales!
I just finished St. Dale by Sharyn McCrumb. It is a novel set in and around NASCAR--very good.
Posted: September 27, 2005 1:11 am
by JIM
"Tourist in the Yucatan" great thriller adventure set in one of my favorite places. Highly recommended!
Posted: September 27, 2005 1:35 am
by Left Field ParrotHead
Just starting 'The Big Bounce' by Elmore Leonard.
The movies intrigued me so now I'm going to work thru all the novels
Posted: September 27, 2005 7:40 am
by Ilph
Trying to finish up "The Dead Father's Guide to Sex and Marriage." It was promoted as a father dies and guides his son through life type of book, and it's really nothing like that. I like it though.
Posted: September 27, 2005 7:41 am
by Ilph
JIM wrote:"Tourist in the Yucatan" great thriller adventure set in one of my favorite places. Highly recommended!
Great book!
Posted: September 27, 2005 9:34 am
by Jodibug
Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach
Posted: September 27, 2005 11:41 am
by weirdo0521
Posted: September 27, 2005 12:13 pm
by captainjoe
It is about Vlad the Impaler or aka Dracula.
Pretty good so far. I am about 150 pages in of the 650 total pages!
Posted: September 27, 2005 4:26 pm
by tikitatas
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - by Mark Haddon
Posted: September 27, 2005 4:30 pm
by fairhopeparrot
Beach Blanket Bad Boys - several short stories by various authors. Good quick chick read.
Posted: September 27, 2005 4:32 pm
by buffettbride
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Never read it as a girl, now Victoria and I are reading it together.
And last night I read a few Harold and the Purple Crayon stories to Tony.
Posted: September 27, 2005 4:40 pm
by Cuervo
A gripping modern story of treasure, tragedy, and tenacity, in the tradition of Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
In 1622, the Spanish galleon Atocha sank in a hurricane off the coast of Florida. On board were more than forty tons of treasure-gold and silver ingots, coins, emeralds, and jewelry, worth billions today. In 1969, Mel Fisher set out to find it. In this riveting narrative, reporter Jedwin Smith brings to life this decades-long quest. Since Mel's death in 1998, the Fisher family has continued this epic treasure hunt, which has resulted in astounding recoveries (treasure from part of the Atocha as well as from its sister ship, the Margarita), complex legal battles, including deaths, drug addiction, and madness. Smith first encountered Mel Fisher in 1985, and has been reporting on-and participating in-the Atocha treasure hunt ever since. Writing with you-are-there immediacy, he captures like no other writer the romance of big-time treasure hunting as well as its sometimes horrible costs, taking us from astonishing discoveries of sunken gold and larger-than-life escapades in colorful Key West to foundering boats, dangerous dives, and personal loss.
Written with the cooperation of the Fisher family and exclusive access to divers on the recovery team, this is the authoritative account of the most celebrated treasure hunt of our time-and a surefire bestseller
Posted: September 27, 2005 5:04 pm
by Moonie
I had an Atocha coin..and certificate of authencity....signed by Mel Fisher...
Posted: September 27, 2005 5:18 pm
by MA_Buffett_Fan23
how sad... I'm still reading ASPOL
Posted: September 27, 2005 7:24 pm
by 12vmanRick
I just finish a Neal Boortz book called The Terrible Truth About Liberals and the Communist Manifesto (just wanted to reread it to see how close the ideas are intertwined with today's Democratic Party)
I am stuck in the middle of Mark Twain's Following the Equator
Next up is A Salty Piece of Land which I may start before I finish Mark Twain's book.
Posted: September 28, 2005 4:41 pm
by BettyV
Moonie wrote:I had an Atocha coin..and certificate of authencity....signed by Mel Fisher...
Did you every hear that A Pirate Looks At Forty was written especially for those treasure divers?
I recently read a brief article in a magazine sent to members of electric co-ops written by a woman who was previously a member of that group. She wrote of their reunion in, where else--Key West. Said they spent the night dancing to Jimmy Buffett tunes and their favorite was APLAF, since it was written just for them.
Anyone have any more info on this story? Was Jimbo an investor in that venture?
BTW, I have a small dolphin pendant which was made from the melted gold of the Atocha venture. I have the Certificate of Authenticity. I could not afford any of the larger pieces!
