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Jas i had the same thought though I would hope the archeologists involved would have factored in things such as location, placement, and potential site corruption. The article is rather brief as I pulled it from IO9 and I'd imagine the original paper would go further Into such details but I wasn't in the mood to look into it. Peglegstrick I agree hate to cross em.

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So if the Neanderthals beat us to seafaring would they not have been the first to go a pyrating? All laughs and giggles sure but...... http://m.io9.com/5889484/neanderthals-were-sailing-the-mediterranean-100000-years-ago

Just finished The First Salute. Another audio book downloaded from the library and a good read. I won't try and rate the validity of its history though as it doesnt make any bold new assertions but merely tries to give a more international context to the Revolutionary war I imagine it to be reasonably accurate. I don't think her perhaps over harsh look at life under sail is without its flaws but on the whole I had few complaints and enjoyed the book a lot. Jas - In case I dont get back to that series by the time you get to book eleven.....NO SPOILERS, Glad you like em'.

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Started reading "Dancing In The Dark" but about a 1/4 of the way in I got tired of hearing the author drool over communist writers who's style was not quite as important as their message. (puke, really, why oh why didn't I realise what I was in for when a book double ordinary size was lauded by the New York and the L.A. Times.) I did however throughly enjoy Betty White's book If you ask me (and of course you won't) Short but maybe my audio book was abriged (it wasn't labeled as such.) Also got the library working on two books for me via interlibrary loan. As a side to this should I be proud that one of the books I was after, "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float" wasn't in the system?

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Glad to see you're enjoying the Alan Lewrie series Jas. I just finished up Daemon (another Wally World discount book) and WOW! I had heard alot about this book and its sequel before I picked it up and for once something lived up to the hype! Hands down awesome near future sci-fi. I also listened to Clive Cussler's Devil's Gate which was as always great . This actually gets me caught up on Cussler's work (excepting his two young adult novels and a coffee table book about his car collection.)

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I finished up The Age of Wonder and though I dislike the author throwing down his own opinions towards the end I enjoyed the book and while reading it found what turned out to be my next book, Confessions of an English Opium Eater. It was a fairly intresting look into the world of a Romantic era addict but as a word of caution it was written by a Romantic era scholar while coming off an opium addiction, if you catch my drift. Tonight I just finished up The Accent of Money. This was perhaps the most detailed of my economic texts thus far though I am in an on agian off agian battle with Smith's The Wealth of Nations. (I Hope to finish it up this year.) It's a very intresting look into the history of modern finance though it can often be slow reading. Yeah Jas, Lambdin does have a penchant for that form of action or at least he did through the first ten books. I haven't read any after that.

Read Clive Cussler's the race today as an ebook from the library's online site. A real good read and possibly one of if not the best book in the Bell series. I'm halfway through "The Age of Wonder" which is a history of science in the romantic period or as its sub-title says, "How the romantic era discovered the beauty and the terror of science.". So far its been really intriguing.

I just finished up my first two books of the new year, both of which I grabbed from the discount boxes at Walmart. The first was "Up Till Now" William Shatner's autobiography. IDK why I've been reading so many bio.'s lately but this was a fairly funny little read that I quite enjoyed. (And now for something completely different.) Oil and Ice, originally put out as "Final Voyage" this book deals with the loss of a fleet of arctic whaling ships in 1871 as well as the rise and fall of American whaling in general. Though by no means an incredible book this was a good little read well worth the $2.97 it cost me. I also finished up Kipling's The Man Who Would be King. Though at 47 pages I'm not sure what to call it a novela perhaps? Not Kipling's best but a fun little read.

It looks like my last book of 2011 will be Clive Cussler's Crecent Dawn. Classic Cussler a thrill ride from cover to cover.

Finished Tammy Wynette Tragic Country Queen. As with pretty much all celeb. bio's that I've read this book was much more intresting (to me) as a collection of road stories as opposed to a tabloid style retelling of someone's life story. It's a well written book that I enjoyed though it doesn't have enough off topic story for me to recommend it if you aren't a fan of early country music.

I went back and checked out I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive as an ebook and finished it up today while waiting on the tire man to show up and fix this trailer tire. To be honest the book runs out of steam in the second half when it goes into a lot of mysticism and relies on that and a political statement about abortion to carry the story. I honestly think it would have been better had it only hinted at the mysticism and stayed on course as a gritty early sixties street life story.

A decent bottle of rum you say hmmm, nope that price is too steep I'll just get in trouble. I didn't finish I'll Never Get Out of this World Alive. It was good but it was for whatever reason not a great audio book. I did however get bored and finish Kipling's Just So Stories. I've been meaning to do this with my son but he keeps wanting to hear The Elephant's Child but none of the other stories. I finished up the last stories and I gotta say I loved it.

Just downloaded and read Clive Cussler's "The Kingdom" from the online function of my library. I'm about a quater of the way through Steve Earl's novel "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" which is a good read (or listen as I have it in audio form) and raw as hell just like you'd expect but I can't say no to a Cussler book. My wife would be so mad if she knew how much time I just pissed away reading that book instead of cleaning house.

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas. (1845) Another great book. Should be mandatory for all teenagers. Somewhat graphic though. It was an intresting contrast to Booker T. Washington's autobiography. The Prince by Machiavelli Damn this cat was cold blooded! Nice to know however that he was an abject failure. A Christmas Carol Never read the original before and I loved it. That being said I still saw the Disney characters as I was reading. The Buccaneer Scholar A self help book that I picked up for a buck at dollar tree. It was an intresting read though I won't be mentioning the whole drop out of school thing around my kids. Rock & Roll Jihad The autobiography of Salman Ahmad member of two apparently legendary Pakistani rock bands. It's a good read but he does occasionally sink a little too deep into the peace love harmony deal at least for my taste that is. BTW this is another Dollar Tree book.

I don't have one but it is the consensus choice on the TWIT network as well as Revision 3. Personally I have always found their advice dead on.

Ahh the joys of audio books. I've been able to finish up three books recently, Up From Slavery, the autobiography of Booker T. Washington a really good read if one has an intrest in the time period. It is also on par with Benjamin Franklin's autobiography in that it is ment to be instructive. Escape, The Houdini Story, A good quick read by an author with a love of his topic. I Am Legend, Much deeper than I would have thought from the movies I've watched. A good read in mho

I finally got a chance to read Freakenomics and finished it up today. I really enjoy it but wish it had been longer.

Right so I've finished up a couple books lately. Composed a memoir by Roseanne Cash. A good book but like all or at least most memoirs one needs an intrest in the person before beginning. The second of the lot was Cancel My Subscribtion The Worst of NPR which although bad was no where near as bad an attempt at humor as was The Seven Habits of Highly Defective People.

Thanks to the miracle of downloadable audio books from the library I've read three more books. The first of the batch was Dragon Sea. A really good shipwreck/treasure hunt book. I've not read many better in this particular genre of non-fiction though both of Cussler's The Sea Hunters books and Shadow Divers come to mind this book was an absolute joy to read. The second book was Deep Blue. The work is a compilation of fictitious and true short stories and book exerts. It was good but like most such works it's parts remain greater than it's whole. Lastly was The Seven Habits of Highly Defective People. This is quite possibly the worst book I've read in years. Intended as a parody of self help books as well as several. other genres this POS was so devoid of humor as to be honestly abysmal. Not even achieving pity chuckles the brain dead would be comics persist in re hashing corny, dog eared puns that grew stale decades ago and had I hoped been relegated to amateur night at particularly poor comedy clubs and talent days at junior high schools.

Don't worry Jas I wasn't aware of any after book 10. Looks like I have some more books for the back log. :S The Alan Lewrie books are faster and more action movie-ish than the Aubrey/Maturin books (still my favorites.) and are hence forth more or less loved as regards peoples taste. I finished reading Pirate Hunter and although it was a good quick dun read I don't know enough to say much about it as far as historical accuracy. I did however enjoy it, though I wouldn't say I would have been thrilled had I not already been intrested in the topic. I also got "Give Me Tomorrow" as an audio book. Quite frankly I can't recommend this book enough. It is one of the best non fiction books I've read in years and the best work relating to the Korean war I've come across save for "A Ranger Born". Agian I gotta say read this book.