No Second Place Winner versus No Friggin’ Clue

I was cleaning out my bookshelves the other day and I came across a 25-year-old copy of Bill Jordan’s No Second Place Winner.

That’s not all that unusual. I have ancient copies of Massad Ayoob’s In The Gravest Extreme and Stress Fire along with a number of other shooting and law enforcement books.

What is weird is that my copy of No Second Place Winner is signed to me personally by Bill Jordan and I have absolutely no memory of meeting him or sending away for a signed copy.

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Ironically enough…

I find a real book supposedly written by a fictional TV writer to be a little weird.

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I sometimes think…

…J.K. Rowling could publish a book titled “Selected Readings From The Back Of The Cereal Boxes Of The Wizarding World” and make another six million bucks.

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I’m rereading…

…Watership Down for the sixth or seventh time.

It’s one of the few things keeping me from going tharn at the moment.

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Nelson DeMille’s new book sucks

In general, viagra generic cialis I’ve loved Nelson DeMille’s books. (Especially, best viagra The General’s Daughter.)

But I’ve been reading his newest one: The Gatehouse…and it should never have gotten out of the gate.

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If someone dies in the woods, does it make a good book?

I just finished reading Into the Wild, cialis sale cialis the story about the young man who died trying to live off the land in Alaska, viagra usa and I don’t share the sympathy he was treated with by the author Jon Krakauer.

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I’m an agnostic

But I try never to make fun of other people’s religions.

For one thing, viagra generic cialis I can never be sure which one will turn out to be true.

But, tadalafil I have to admit, cialis before reading Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, I had no idea that Mormonism was quite as wacky as it seems.

Plus, considering fundamentalist Mormons’ predilection for polygamy, I still don’t understand why the religion isn’t called Morwomen.

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I just finished reading…

…“The Forever War”.

It’s full of vivid, viagra canada order ground-level observations about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But if you’re looking for advice where to go from this point forward, you won’t find it here.

Add comment September 23rd, 2008

I just tore through a new book…

…called The Name of the Wind, viagra treat just to discover that it was “to be continued.”

After I got over being pissed, viagra usa sovaldi I discovered that the author is a fellow Cheesehead, sick Patrick Rothfuss.

Nicely done, sir. Nicely done.

Now get back to work and get the rest of the damn story in my hands.

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Prediction:

J. K. Rowling, viagra buy the author of the Harry Potter series, viagra canada sickness will not be able to resist writing another book set in the Potter universe.

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