Hornblower! I really love those novels. Did you catch the A&E series that was just on. If not you missed a good miniseries. Hopefully they will continue making episodes. They were true to the books. Instead of being out paddling this holiday I ended up building a patio. But as a reward I decided I was going to read a book. I picked Robert Heinlen's "Starship Troopers" which I had not read in 15 years. Don't bother with the movie, I saw the adverts and could tell they just stole the title from the book... Mr. Rico, the "hero" if you can even call him that, of Starships Troopers is sorta similar to a young Hornblower. I think most people who like the Hornblower series would like "Starship Troopers." There are points in the book, which was published in 1959, about youth violence and gangs that sound exactly like the comments made today. Its educational to think that in 40 years nothing has really changed. Good book skip the movie. Later... Dan *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jun 02 1999 - 10:30:41 PDT
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