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To: epicure who wrote (4518)	1/23/2004 10:13:22 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51713

I haven't read the Da Vinci Code yet. Maybe I'll buy it when it hits the 1.00 Sales shelf at Half-Price, but it hasn't appealed to me yet. Current reading: Thomas Cahill's Sailing the Wine-DArk Sea: Why the Greeks Matter I loved his How the Irish Saved Civilization so hope this is equally well-written. Just finished The Five People You Meet in Heaven by MItch Albom, the guy who wrote Tuesdays With Morrie. I had been on the waiting list at the library since October for it and expected something much better. It was a real disappointment. Schlocky. It left me with the same empty feeling Bridges of Madison County did. No wait- that's not fair. Bridges left me gagging on the floor. It wasn't as bad as Celestine Prophecies. I am still amazed at the popularity of that one. I guess people want simple magical answers to things- or maybe they want to believe they have read something profound but without really putting forth the effort real thought might require? I read a lot of light stuff, since personally I think reading should be entertaining, so it wasn't just that it wasn't a DEEP book. I just didn't think it had much in the way of -- anything. This morning a friend sent me a recommendation for a book called Stalking the Divine: Contemplating Faith With the Poor Clares. It sounds excellent. The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are nuns who pray for the world. They actually read the papers every morning and pray for people to whom bad things happen. The author is a lapsed Catholic who stopped believing, but finds the idea of faith compelling. Made me think of Salzman's Lying Awake. ANd that is my weekly reading report.

To: epicure who wrote (4518)	1/23/2004 5:04:46 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51713

Hi X, re: "I'm glad the market is treating you well." Well Thank you very much.. "For the last 3 months or so since getting back from Maui", he says, while knocking on the old noggin.. <g>.. Have to go back for more luck..No.. Actually we are planning to go somewhere else.. Down to Peru to hunt for the next "10 insights".. LOL.. Anyway, I did OK today, never sold the top or bought the bottom, just like Bernard Baruch. <g>.. At least that's what he said he did. Took a little out of the middle. If it worked for him, maybe it will work a little for me..:). Moving on, I printed out your post to bring to the rental place. Never did sign up for Netflix.. Easy to put off, that kind of stuff for me... I have seen a little about "Open Range" Thanks for liking it, because I do like a good western now and then, if there is not too darn much shooting like long drawn out gun battles.. There was a western that came out a few years ago, set in the Sierra Nevada, in the winter, mind you, that I enjoyed. You might have even recommended to me. I just can't remember the name. Actually, I kind of liked some of the Clint Eastwood stuff.. The "sort of loner" <g> identifying with the "loner", maybe. <g>.. I don't know.. Take care, m