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Page 2 of 7 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > Topic Options #23439 - 03/20/01 06:06 AM Finder's Fee inselpeter Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/14/01 Posts: 2379 Loc: New York City Does anyone know the name of a book published in the last few years that listed names of US towns? Names such as: Lost Hope, Nebraska; Ruin, Nevada, etc. I made these up, but they are characteristic of some of the contents. Top #23440 - 03/20/01 11:09 AM Re: Book Recommendations Anonymous Unregistered i'm amazed... two pages of responses and not a single book recommendation. *sigh* - so much much for my "Buy five and receive free shipping" at Amazon. going once... going twice..... Top #23441 - 03/20/01 11:30 AM Re: Book Recommendations tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10472 Loc: this too shall pass some good fiction that i've read in the last... oh... 5 years. The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson Bringing Out the Dead, by Joe Connelly Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier and how about something by Jon Hassler... Top #23442 - 03/20/01 11:43 AM Re: Book Recommendations of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park Peter Maas' The Terrible Hours about one for the first sunken submarine rescues-- -- a great read-- _________________________ my other obsession Top #23443 - 03/20/01 01:17 PM Re: Book Recommendations Fiberbabe old hand Registered: 01/12/01 Posts: 771 Loc: Portland, Oregon Accordian Crimes by Annie Proulx was good too... Top #23444 - 03/20/01 01:53 PM Re: Book Recommendations Bobyoungbalt veteran Registered: 11/22/00 Posts: 1289 Faldage reported in a post March 6 in Wordplay & Fun, that he was reading Alphabet to Email by Naomi S. Baron. I was intrigued, so I ordered it from Amazon, read it and was much pleased with it. It's a scholarly work, but eminently readable, very interesting and informative, and even funny in spots. I recommend it highly for all linguaphiles. By the way, Faldage, thanks very much for bringing this to my notice. Top #23445 - 03/20/01 10:24 PM Re: Fact or Fiction books? Scribbler journeyman Registered: 01/21/01 Posts: 86 Loc: Utopia, not in literal sense, ... > (wow) ... to promise that, for one year, I would not try to organize him before breakfast --- Alice curtsies and respectfully inquires, Your Majesty of Hearts, what were the OTHER five impossible things you sought to believe before breakfast? Top #23446 - 03/21/01 06:36 AM Fact AND Fiction AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York (YART alert) Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman. All OEDophiles should have this in their respective organic RAMs. Top #23447 - 03/21/01 06:47 AM Re: Fact AND Fiction maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757 organic RAMs ?! Top #23448 - 03/21/01 08:33 AM Re: Fact AND Fiction shanks old hand Registered: 03/16/00 Posts: 1004 Loc: London, UK organic RAMs ?! As opposed, of course, to the electric sheep dreamt of by androids... cheer the bladeruiner Top Page 2 of 7 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8453 Members 16 Forums 13692 Topics 210111 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members zhangzhen, dene13, MariaAnastasia, MNPrasad, Krysto4 8453 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 49 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 98 wofahulicodoc 71 endymion6 71 jenny jenny 66 teepee 23 Rhubarb Commando 18 Faldage 14 tsuwm 9 anddrewlee 6 Jackie 4 June Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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