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Tudpock18
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Posted 8/18/2013 6:40 AM (GMT -8)
As long as we have expanded to TV, I can heartily recommend "Homeland" (Showtime). I've enjoyed many of the previously mentioned series such and "The Sopranos" and "Breaking Bad". If you want to see the Sopranos on motorcycles, "Sons of Anarchy" is interesting. Also, I just caught the first episode of a new cop series called "Low Winter Sun" that looks promising.

Jim
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James C.
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Posted 8/18/2013 7:20 AM (GMT -8)
F8, check out Dead Like Me, a quirky life after dead Showtime mini series, it lasted 2 seasons before being cancelled. I also liked the PBS Ken Burns "The War", Hbo's "The Pacific" and "Band of Brothers", for accurate historial looks at both theatres of war.

Fiction right now is Harry Potter fanfiction, written (sometimes poorly) by amateurs who throw some different twists. I just can't stop going back and reading more. www.fanfiction.net.

Other non-fiction is "Happy Happy Happy" by Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame, two books by Ehrman- "Misquoting Jesus" and "Jesus, Interrupted". Also Halpern's "**** My Dad Says". You know the word, the software won't allow me to use it.
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Purgatory
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Posted 8/18/2013 7:33 AM (GMT -8)
Started to get on a Jules Verne kick recently, hadn't read any of them since high school, so I downloaded most of the available titles for free on my Kindle Fire. It's great how you can get the old classics for free. Still not a big fan of reading an electronic book, it will never replace the feel and smell of a real book, guess I am too old school.

As far as TV, I don't think I have seen a single series show that you have described on this thread.

I watch a lot of tv, actually, the tv is on a lot for background since I spend so much time alone.

I mostly watch movies, then sports, then being a news junkie, a lot of news. I really don't watch any regular weekly type tv shows, either old or new.

My new kick is watching anything in 3-D. Hooked on that. We recently upgraded our main tv to a large, LED smart tv with full passive 3-D capabilities. Still amazes me. HBO right now, is the only movie channel that has free 3-D movies, but their selection is limited. We have everything Charter has to offer, and even their pay-per 3-D selection is weak. I belong to Amazon Prime, so I have been buying some 3-D movies to add to my collection.

David in SC
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Tim G
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Posted 8/18/2013 9:18 AM (GMT -8)
Ed--"MI5" aka 'Spooks' is contemporary, and had a ten-season run from 2002 to 2011. Good stuff, watched 'em all. I've read the Solzhenitsyn--the 3-volume Gulag is a masterpiece, and Cancer Ward is one of his best novels.
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Posted 8/18/2013 1:30 PM (GMT -8)
F8, check out Dead Like Me, a quirky life after dead Showtime mini series, it lasted 2 seasons before being cancelled. I also liked the PBS Ken Burns "The War", Hbo's "The Pacific" and "Band of Brothers", for accurate historial looks at both theatres of war. 

James -- my wife has the first season of Dead Like Me.  we are going to watch that next.  Saw band of brothers -- it was excellent.  she doesn't like war flicks so that probably explains why I haven't even taken the cellophane off of The Pacific, which was given to me as a xmas gift by her brother several years ago cool .

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Posted 8/18/2013 1:32 PM (GMT -8)
Tim  - I have heard of spooks.  I read almost everything by solhzhenitsyn.  I also liked the first circle.

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Posted 8/18/2013 6:08 PM (GMT -8)
Don't have cable, so none of the HBO, etc. here. I had to rebalance my budget for PCa costs. Cable went away for a preferred parking spot in the complex so I can get in and out of the car.

I'm a Dean Koontz fan - when I can read. After a day at the computer at work, I don't much care about reading a book. I'd rather fire up a good CD and listen to Astor Piazzola.

But there is a signed copy of "Unbroken" on my desk, loaned unprovoked from a friend, waiting to be read. Story is that the last few units sent to the Phillipines and the Aleutians were literally by a flip of the coin. The last two units included one important in my family. Much to their dismay, the troops went to Alaska for years of cold and colder, when other units got to go play with the girls in the Phillipines. It didn't work out that way. I know there is a lot of remorse among the Alaska crew - the only deaths in the Aleutian assignment were from random disease and accidents, a handfull at most. The only survivors from the unit sent to the Phillipines were by blind luck and extreme determination. There were less than a handfull. The two numbers were almost equal. Somehow the ghosts of the past have caused the book to be on my desk. Probably to remind me that I am lucky to have been born at all, and that PCa is not as relevant as I might want to think.

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Posted 8/18/2013 6:19 PM (GMT -8)

142 said...
Story is that the last few units sent to the Phillipines and the Aleutians were literally by a flip of the coin. The last two units included one important in my family. Much to their dismay, the troops went to Alaska for years of cold and colder, when other units got to go play with the girls in the Phillipines. It didn't work out that way. I know there is a lot of remorse among the Alaska crew - the only deaths in the Aleutian assignment were from random disease and accidents, a handfull at most. The only survivors from the unit sent to the Philippines were by blind luck and extreme determination.

I haven't read Unbroken, but will now look for it. But as a brief aside, my father was an army air corps staff sergeant in a pilot training squadron in Florida in WWII. He was also a notary and did the paperwork, wills etc. for new pilots before they were shipped out. He met up later with some of the ones who got sent to the Aleutians and they said they'd have rather been sent to the war, because they lost quite a few pilots who went up but than couldn't find their way back down in the fog.
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Tim G
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Posted 8/19/2013 7:52 AM (GMT -8)
Louis Zamperini is still alive and age 96. A movie version of Unbroken is scheduled for release late next year. While I 'm on topic, Railway Man is another WWII survival story that stuns the mind and moves the heart. It's author, Eric Lomax, died this year at age 93. A movie is coming out starring Colin Firth.
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