What should I read next

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
>
>> I just finished Brian van de Mark's Pandora's Keepers. The choices for
>> what should come next are
>>
>> Charlie Wilson's War
>> See No Evil (from Syriana)
>> The Puzzle Palace (just read Body of Secrets)
>> Colossus (just read The Codebreakers)
>> The Longest Day
>> A Night to Remember (just saw the film)
>> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (read once)
>> The Right Stuff (read once)
>
> Do you think perhaps authors might be important? Some of those are
> certainly unique (/Zen.../, for instance) and since there's a film of /A
> Night to Remember/, that's probably the one I know, but I would bet there's
> a dozen books titled /See no Evil/ (my library has 5 fiction, and two
> non-fiction with a subtitle) and not knowing who or what is "Syriana", I'm
> not sure whether that's an author or publisher.

SYRIANA is a movie. George Clooney. Based on the book SEE NO EVIL.
<http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/17925/george_clooneys_syriana_a_long_slow.html>

> In particular, I'm suspecting that "Colossus" is not the one in my
> library...

COLOSSUS is a book about code breaking.
<http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Secrets-Bletchley-Code-breaking-Computers/dp/019284055X>

Based on BODY OF SECRETS, PUZZLE PALACE would be this one:
<http://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Palace-National-Intelligence-Organization/dp/0140067485>

If you've seen SYRIANA, read SEE NO EVIL. If you haven't seen SYRIANA,
read SEE NO EVIL.

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Sal

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Towse wrote:

>Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
>>
>>> I just finished Brian van de Mark's Pandora's Keepers. The choices for
>>> what should come next are
>>>
>>> Charlie Wilson's War
>>> See No Evil (from Syriana)
>>> The Puzzle Palace (just read Body of Secrets)
>>> Colossus (just read The Codebreakers)
>>> The Longest Day
>>> A Night to Remember (just saw the film)
>>> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (read once)
>>> The Right Stuff (read once)
>>
>> Do you think perhaps authors might be important? Some of those are
>> certainly unique (/Zen.../, for instance) and since there's a film of /A
>> Night to Remember/, that's probably the one I know, but I would bet there's
>> a dozen books titled /See no Evil/ (my library has 5 fiction, and two
>> non-fiction with a subtitle)[.]
>> In particular, I'm suspecting that "Colossus" is not the one in my
>> library...
>
>COLOSSUS is a book about code breaking.
><http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Secrets-Bletchley-Code-breaking-Computers/dp/019284055X>

It was also a book and a movie about a computer that takes over the
world.

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Towse wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:


> If you've seen SYRIANA, read SEE NO EVIL. If you haven't seen SYRIANA,
> read SEE NO EVIL.

I'm still wondering who wrote it.
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derek
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Derek Broughton wrote:
> Towse wrote:
>
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>
>
>> If you've seen SYRIANA, read SEE NO EVIL. If you haven't seen SYRIANA,
>> read SEE NO EVIL.
>
> I'm still wondering who wrote it.

If you cared, you could click the link I provided.


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Sal

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"Derek Broughton" wrote in message

> Towse wrote:
>
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>
>
>> If you've seen SYRIANA, read SEE NO EVIL. If you haven't seen SYRIANA,
>> read SEE NO EVIL.
>
> I'm still wondering who wrote it.
> --
> derek

If you're curious enough long enough you may find yourself resorting to
'Google'.
As an alternative to the impatient wait for the spoon.
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Dracula - Stoker.

In my top 5 all time.
The "journalistic style" won me over in the same way Tolkiens "reporter
style" did.

I've never served a "cornish game hen" dinner again without thinking of the
book.

-W

"Bluuuue Rajah" wrote in message

>
> I just finished Brian van de Mark's Pandora's Keepers. The choices for
> what should come next are
>
> Charlie Wilson's War
> See No Evil (from Syriana)
> The Puzzle Palace (just read Body of Secrets)
> Colossus (just read The Codebreakers)
> The Longest Day
> A Night to Remember (just saw the film)
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (read once)
> The Right Stuff (read once)
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In article ,
"Clams Canino" said:

> Dracula - Stoker.
>
> In my top 5 all time.
> The "journalistic style" won me over in the same way Tolkiens
> "reporter style" did.

Has there ever been a reporter who wrote the way Tolkien did in Lord
of the Rings? Without getting fired?

-- wds
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On Mar 29, 7:14 am, wdst....TakeThisOut@panix.com (William December Starr) wrote:
> In article ,
> "Clams Canino" said:
>
> > Dracula  - Stoker.
>
> > In my top 5 all time.
> > The "journalistic style" won me over in the same way Tolkiens
> > "reporter style" did.
>
> Has there ever been a reporter who wrote the way Tolkien did in Lord
> of the Rings?  Without getting fired?

I knew a Spaniard who learned English, from only two sources : an
audio & text based course, and Lord of the Rings.

When describing the bombings in Madrid in an assignment, he began
"2004 was a dark year for the Spaniard..."

I wouldn't dare correct his English as it stands. That would be to
destroy it.

--Iain
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Towse wrote in

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
>>
>>> I just finished Brian van de Mark's Pandora's Keepers. The choices
>>> for what should come next are
>>>
>>> Charlie Wilson's War
>>> See No Evil (from Syriana)
>>> The Puzzle Palace (just read Body of Secrets)
>>> Colossus (just read The Codebreakers)
>>> The Longest Day
>>> A Night to Remember (just saw the film)
>>> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (read once)
>>> The Right Stuff (read once)
>>
>> Do you think perhaps authors might be important? Some of those are
>> certainly unique (/Zen.../, for instance) and since there's a film of
>> /A Night to Remember/, that's probably the one I know, but I would
>> bet there's a dozen books titled /See no Evil/ (my library has 5
>> fiction, and two non-fiction with a subtitle) and not knowing who or
>> what is "Syriana", I'm not sure whether that's an author or
>> publisher.
>
> SYRIANA is a movie. George Clooney. Based on the book SEE NO EVIL.
> <http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/17925/george_clooneys_syrian
a
> _a_long_slow.html>
>
>> In particular, I'm suspecting that "Colossus" is not the one in my
>> library...
>
> COLOSSUS is a book about code breaking.
> <http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Secrets-Bletchley-Code-breaking-
Computers/dp/019284055X>
>
> Based on BODY OF SECRETS, PUZZLE PALACE would be this one:
> <http://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Palace-National-Intelligence-
Organization/dp/0140067485>
>
> If you've seen SYRIANA, read SEE NO EVIL. If you haven't seen SYRIANA,
> read SEE NO EVIL.

Why would you recommend "See No Evil" over "Charlie Wilson's War" and
the others, and is it a page turner?
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Greg Goss wrote:
> Towse wrote:
>
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just finished Brian van de Mark's Pandora's Keepers. The choices for
>>>> what should come next are
>>>>
>>>> Charlie Wilson's War
>>>> See No Evil (from Syriana)
>>>> The Puzzle Palace (just read Body of Secrets)
>>>> Colossus (just read The Codebreakers)
>>>> The Longest Day
>>>> A Night to Remember (just saw the film)
>>>> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (read once)
>>>> The Right Stuff (read once)
>>> Do you think perhaps authors might be important? Some of those are
>>> certainly unique (/Zen.../, for instance) and since there's a film of /A
>>> Night to Remember/, that's probably the one I know, but I would bet there's
>>> a dozen books titled /See no Evil/ (my library has 5 fiction, and two
>>> non-fiction with a subtitle)[.]
>>> In particular, I'm suspecting that "Colossus" is not the one in my
>>> library...
>> COLOSSUS is a book about code breaking.
>> <http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Secrets-Bletchley-Code-breaking-Computers/dp/019284055X>
>
> It was also a book and a movie about a computer that takes over the
> world.

That's true. I own the book and its sequel. I don't own the final book
in the trilogy.

The Original Poster, however, qualified the title by saying he had "just
read The Codebreakers."



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Sal

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Towse wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Towse wrote:
>>
>>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If you've seen SYRIANA, read SEE NO EVIL. If you haven't seen SYRIANA,
>>> read SEE NO EVIL.
>>
>> I'm still wondering who wrote it.
>
> If you cared, you could click the link I provided.
>
So I'm going to go to a link, about a movie, expecting to find out who wrote
the book? If _you_ cared, you'd provide reasonable citations. Obviously
it isn't that important and I _don't_ care.
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derek
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Grand Mal wrote:

>
> "Derek Broughton" wrote in message
>
>> Towse wrote:
>>
>>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If you've seen SYRIANA, read SEE NO EVIL. If you haven't seen SYRIANA,
>>> read SEE NO EVIL.
>>
>> I'm still wondering who wrote it.
>
> If you're curious enough long enough you may find yourself resorting to
> 'Google'.
> As an alternative to the impatient wait for the spoon.

You might have noticed that I actually consulted my library catalog.
Clearly googling "See no evil" is unlikely to be useful. Equally clearly,
it can't be that important as the OP seems either to not know, or not care.
In either case, it can't be that good.
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derek
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Greg Goss wrote:

> Towse wrote:

>>
>>COLOSSUS is a book about code breaking.
>><http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Secrets-Bletchley-Code-breaking-Computers/dp/019284055X>
>
> It was also a book and a movie about a computer that takes over the
> world.

Precisely. By DF Jones, iirc.
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derek
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