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Richard Bach books (was) Movies (was) Novice Sailboat Question: Help w/ Broken Boom
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:46:00 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:33:31 -0400, "Flying Pig" wrote: "Richard Casady" wrote in message news On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:17:38 -0400, "Flying Pig" wrote: "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts." Bach's first book, Stranger to the Ground. was not bad. It has been downhill from there. If the ****er tells me my cancer is a gift that I need I will break his bones. Casady Hi, Sorry to hear about your cancer... What is it, and what's the prognosis? A spot on the tongue from forty years of smoking and drinking. It had spread to the lymph nodes on both sides of the neck. So they geve me radiation every day for six weeks, enough to kill in thirty seconds if it hit the brain all at once. A couple of positron scans were clean that is I seem to have a cure. I am 63 and life has been pretty good. I still have a life. Just got back from a trip to Amsterdam. Stayed at the Hemp Hotel, and yes you can legally smoke weed at the bar. They banned smpking tobacco specifically, in the bars, but hashish is still legal. A no star, with a 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 foot [ I measured] ****ter serving the five rooms on three floors, but the room did have a shower and a small icebox. The bar is seven feet wide[I measured] and about sixty feet long. The place has a cat door. They don't own the cat that comes and goes at all hours, they just let it hang out. There is a park across the street, a tram stop and cab stand 150 yards away, and a couple of blocks of shops and bars a half block away. A dedicated chocolate shop, a dedicated cheese store. A a tobacconist with English newspapers. A bitty convenience market, with, of all things, Budweiser. Heinekin is harder to find than in the US, and comes in smaller bottles. *******s. The bar has nothing but good brands, four single malts, three brands of absinthe, several cannabis beers and wines. No cheap stuff whatever. Two Euros for a Heinekin, eight[ten bucks] for a The SSSW[Suck****SoftWare] got me again. Lately it has been ****ing with me. It disappeared about half a million NG messages, for example. It sent out a incomplete message. Two Euros for a Heinekin, eight[ten bucks] for a Lagavulin. I think Stranger to the Ground was his delivery flight in the USAF? If so, that's the one I liked least. If it was another of his flight-related personal narratives, I like it, as there's not been any I've not, other than the USAF delivery. I've not read JLSeagull, but thoroughly enjoyed Biplane, Illusions, and what might have been his last one, about his getting married, name now forgotten... I forgot about Biplane. It wasn't bad at all. His bestseller Seagull sucked. The first SF best seller, Heinlein's Stranger In A trange Land, was about his worst. I asked him what he thought about all the airheads that thought there was some deep meaning to it. He said it just goes to show he will do anything for moneyl Casady |
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