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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Submitted by bookie on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 6:30pm

Ok, so here's the thing.  The book is borrrrrrrrrrrrring.  I mean its written real well but come on will something happen already.  I finally bowed out after 400 pages of basically nothing happening.

To think 30 million copies have been sold its an international blockbuster and I don't see it at all.  Oh well, you aren't going to like everything that comes along I guess.

After I gave up on that I started 'Terninal Freeze' by Lincoln Child.  Sounds like it could be another rehash of the 50's syfy classic "The Thing".

I like Lincoln Child as a writer and the book got off to a good start.

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Great Sweep

Submitted by thebabe on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 8:48pm

Nice 4 game sweep of Detroit.   Now the dreaded Yankees.   How sweet would it be to sweep them too.  I understand all 3 games are sold out.  Hey, I thought there weren't any fans.

Way to go David Price.  14 wins and counting. 

Go Rays!!!

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Persons Unknown

Submitted by walter on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 8:05pm

Persons Unknown is moving along pretty well.  They promise to wrap it up by end of summer so we will see but it is going forward at an acceptable rate.  This summer heat has turned me into a real couch potato.   By the time I get home after working all day in the heat I can only sit on the couch and veg.   Mad Men started on Sunday and that's a good thing.  So is baseball.  I generally tevo several shows during the week and watch baseball.   That way I have several shows to watch and make a night of my favs.  What a life huh?  Living the dream.

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Summer heat

Submitted by skull on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 7:58pm

Hot enough for you? Ha, ha.   Anybody say that to you lately or are you sick of people saying that to you by now?  I blame this all on Al Gore.  Ater he invented the internet he has to go and invent Gobal Warming.  Nice going Al I wish you would have stuck to technology and bypassed the environment. 

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First No Hitter

Submitted by bestinstpetersburg on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 10:47pm

Way to go Matt Garza!   First no hitter in Rays history and almost a perfect game!  Shoppach gets kudos too.  What a great game to watch.  Go Rays!!!

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Oil spills

Submitted by justme on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 7:13am

I read with interest today an article in the Times about how many and how much oil has been leaking from wells in the Gulf since the 60's.   With 42,000 wells in the Gulf it sounds like there is a continous leak going on somewhere.  It should be apparent to even the most diehard oil apologists that big oil really does control the national government to the extent that whatever they want they get.   They obviously want the percariousness of the drilling hused up and that's what they got.   They control the congress and white house to the extend that this past week saw we saw where any new intiative to have an energy policy that is forward thinking and makes sense is now dead.

I keep thinking and fully believe any breakthru in alternative energy will come from some 'backyard' tinkerer who makes a discovery.  Lets hope when that happens the discovery gets out soon before big oil can sit on it.

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Series win

Submitted by skull on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 7:00am

I guess we have Cleveland's number now.   Maybe we will win 18 in a row now in Cleveland.  After all it is Cleveland.

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Cleveland has our number

Submitted by thebabe on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 7:06am

Weird how in sports some teams just have your number.   18 loses in a row in Clevenland.  Cleveland?  Brother.

Note to Upton,  yes it counts.

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dragon tat

Submitted by bookie on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 8:27pm

I am still wading thru 'the girl with the dragon tattoo'.   Its very well written but man oh man it takes a loooooooooong time to get to the point.  I typically like to read a faster paced book.   I hope the movie is faster paced and I am sure it is.

I picked up Michael Connelly's new paperback 9 Dragons, a Harry Bosh book.  I really like the series and am looking forward to getting into it.   I am too commited to the dragon tat to quit at this point and besides I like the Lisbeth character and want to see how her involement plays out.

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ebooks

Submitted by bookie on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 6:51am

I read with interest today that Amazon says 148 ebooks sold for every one hardback this year and in the last month it was 180 ebooks for every hardback.  Raises the question of whether or not print books are over.  I don't see it that way but certainly ebooks will become a large part of the total book market.

Its estimated that this year ebooks will be a 500 million dollar market, the total book market is about 23.5 billion.  So ebooks are becoming a significant part of the book market but still in its infancy and will be for some time.

I think the tipping point will be when an ipad like erearder will sell for less that $200.00.  It appears that the ebook market has exploded in the past year but after we get offering of a sub 200.00 dollar ipad it will probably take off like a rocket ship.

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ereader

Submitted by justme on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 7:12pm

That's a nice ereader but check this out, its an ereader and a netbook too.  Way more versitile and about the same price.

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New Velocity Mico’s Android Cruz Reader

Submitted by elvis on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 6:57pm

Check out this great video for a new ereader.  You can read books, watch videos and play music, surf the internet and more for 200.00.   That's way less than the ipad. 

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All Star Game

Submitted by thebabe on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 7:52pm

You have to at least watch the first few innings tonight of the all star game to see our boys out there.  I hope the Amercian League wins that way we will have home field advantage when we make the world series.

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The Pinellas County Arts Council

Submitted by skull on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 7:48pm

The Pinellas County Arts Council was absorbed by the county and renamed the department of cultural affairs.  Now because of the recession they are thinking about dropping it all together.  That would be a mistake in my opinion.  There have been several studies showing more people attend cultural events than sporting events.  The county will entertain using taxpayer money for a new stadium so maybe if someone could figure out how to make the arts a sporting event the county would find the money to support more cultural events and at the very least not cancel the department of cultural affairs.

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Submitted by bookie on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 7:32pm

Well this book is pretty much not a thriller at all.  Don't get me wrong Stieg Larsson is a really good writer but thriller...not so much.  I am on page 324 of a 644 page paperback book and the story is ok but there has been nothing thrilling at all so far.  The only reason I haven't  dumped it is the writing is good. 

One character is the woman Lisbeth Salander.  She very interesting and I hope becomes a larger part of the story as she has the dragon tattoo.  There's some half way interesting sex stuff going on but if you buy this book looking for a classical thriller I have to tell you being more than half way thru, it isn't very thrilling.

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Louie

Submitted by robo on Sat, 07/03/2010 - 7:33am

Rescue Me started off its new season on a very serious note.  I hope they are not getting into this serious drama mode and forgetting the comedy.  That can be a funny show and they seem to be able to mix up the drama with the comedy pretty well but enough with the drinking, we all know Tommy Gavin fights alcoholism, we get it now can we move on.

After Rescue Me a new comedy series started called Louie.   A combination of stand-up and situational comedy.  The frist two episodes were very funny.  Warning here though is the humor is very adult but very funny.  Not for the sensitive types I would imagine.

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New Baseball Stadium

Submitted by thebabe on Sat, 07/03/2010 - 7:26am

I guess using the room tax and in effect let the tourists pay for a new stadium is a good idea.  I love the Rays but really don't feel the need to buy them a new stadium with any new taxpayer money.

Speaking of the Rays we need more run support for our pitchers.  That was a great outing by Price last night but where are the bats to back him up?

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Persons Unknown

Submitted by justme on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 3:06pm

I have been watching Persons Unknown and like it quite a bit.  I missed the time change last Monday so I missed the show.  Hulu.com had it up for view the next day so I was able to catch it there.   I have used Hulu a few times to see shows I have missed or forgot to tevo.   Its a great website but this week they are starting to charge for some of the shows by having a monthly fee of about 10.00.  I hope that doesn't mean the whole site is going to be fee based.   I hardly ever use it but when I need it like this week its great to have.

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Rays

Submitted by skull on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 2:59pm

A nice two wins if you ask me.  Garza looked great in his win.  If we could win the series against the Twins that would could get this team off the June skid.  Go Rays!

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Submitted by robo on Tue, 06/29/2010 - 8:01pm

I picked up a new novel called 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'.   Its actually a translated novel by a Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.  The author died in 2004 after writing three novels of this series.  I have heard some good things about the book so thought I'd try it out.

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