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Post by eas on Aug 31, 2008 16:01:25 GMT -5
Hi everybody - Thanks for the warm welcome!
Hi Kickup - I look forward to read your comments of The Time Traveler´s wife. I liked it a lot.
Kahlessa, thanks for letting me stay despite not being a Star Trek Fan. SW has no Klingons, but there are always the Wookies :-)
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Post by Kahlessa on Sept 5, 2008 7:18:13 GMT -5
Kahlessa, thanks for letting me stay despite not being a Star Trek Fan. SW has no Klingons, but there are always the Wookies :-) True, Wookies are totally cool! I once met Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca. It was at a Star Trek convention in St. Louis several years ago. Even though it was billed as a Star Trek convention, there are often people from other sci-fi series and films there. Peter Mayhew gave a talk and he is a very charming and funny gentleman. Not to mention very tall.
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Post by Kahlessa on Sept 5, 2008 7:21:36 GMT -5
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Post by trassin on Sept 9, 2008 9:26:35 GMT -5
Hi everyone. I just recently moved to the area and work for Caterpillar in Peoria.
I found this board from the PAWAC web page. I have a strong interest in government, history, and politics.
Here's a bit of my background. I spent 6 years serving in the United States Navy and I'm a veteran of the war in Iraq. After getting out of the military I took a job on the Illinois side of St. Louis working for BOC (now Linde Group). While there I was heavily involved in politics in the Edwardsville area and acted as the Ron Paul PCC's Southwestern Illinois campaign office manager and was one of the Madison County Campaign coordinators. Once my life settles back down a little bit from moving up here and starting a new job I'm hoping to get involved local politics, possibly by offering my help to some individuals who are attempting to bring a Libertarian Party presence to this area.
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Post by Kahlessa on Sept 9, 2008 11:26:17 GMT -5
Hi everyone. I just recently moved to the area and work for Caterpillar in Peoria. I found this board from the PAWAC web page. I have a strong interest in government, history, and politics. Here's a bit of my background. I spent 6 years serving in the United States Navy and I'm a veteran of the war in Iraq. After getting out of the military I took a job on the Illinois side of St. Louis working for BOC (now Linde Group). While there I was heavily involved in politics in the Edwardsville area and acted as the Ron Paul PCC's Southwestern Illinois campaign office manager and was one of the Madison County Campaign coordinators. Once my life settles back down a little bit from moving up here and starting a new job I'm hoping to get involved local politics, possibly by offering my help to some individuals who are attempting to bring a Libertarian Party presence to this area. Welcome Trassin! It's great to have you here!
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Post by Kickup on Oct 17, 2008 0:28:01 GMT -5
Hi trassin, and welcome! Nice to see you're active in persuit of community excellence. Just a suggestion on reading material to understand the real world of politics and who's really running the show. Try reading Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs. And check out Alex Jones at www.infowars.com \ Curious to know what you think.
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Post by John on Dec 13, 2008 1:42:20 GMT -5
I wrote a message to introduce myself here. But, when I finished my story, it seemed to belong on Michael’s website. In Remembering Michael Crichton, I started the Father and Daughter topic. crichton-official.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=306The Andromeda Strain is still my favorite novel. I have started to read Travels. Mostly, I read non-fiction books about computers, medicine, meditation and yoga. I used to read to my daughters every night. Canadian author Robert Munsch writes wonderfully silly and sometimes touching picture books. My eyes would tear-up when I read I’ll Love You Forever. I read all of the Pony Pals books. We read Nancy Drew books. Their mother and grandmothers read these books when they were growing up. I read five and a half of the Harry Potter books for my daughters and finished the series for myself.
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 14, 2008 9:22:48 GMT -5
I wrote a message to introduce myself here. But, when I finished my story, it seemed to belong on Michael’s website. In Remembering Michael Crichton, I started the Father and Daughter topic. crichton-official.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=306The Andromeda Strain is still my favorite novel. I have started to read Travels. Mostly, I read non-fiction books about computers, medicine, meditation and yoga. I used to read to my daughters every night. Canadian author Robert Munsch writes wonderfully silly and sometimes touching picture books. My eyes would tear-up when I read I’ll Love You Forever. I read all of the Pony Pals books. We read Nancy Drew books. Their mother and grandmothers read these books when they were growing up. I read five and a half of the Harry Potter books for my daughters and finished the series for myself. Welcome John! It's wonderful to have you here! I read what you wrote on the Crichton board and was very moved by it. My father is a voracious reader and I seem to have taken after him. Now I work in a bookstore (the veteran of two Harry Potter release parties) and I love to see parents and children exploring books together.
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Post by Lukaran on Dec 29, 2008 10:18:19 GMT -5
Welcome John. It's great that you read to your daughters. I love the Nancy Drew books. I can't believe that they're still so popular. But the good books keep getting rediscovered.
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Post by John on Dec 31, 2008 4:58:53 GMT -5
Thanks Lukaran, I think my mother gave my older daughter a Nancy Drew book as a gift. We enjoyed reading the book and the other grandmother had a large collection of Nancy Drew books. The stories were fun to read and I became interested in historical aspects. We mostly read books revised in the 60s and 70s. Nancy Drew was invented in the 20s by Edward Statemeyer. He was a writer who controlled and edited many children’s book series including The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift and The Hardy Boys. In 1929, [the year my mother was born] Grosset & Dunlap agreed to publish the Nancy Drew series. Mildred Wert wrote three books as Carolyn Keene to start the series. But, Edward died shortly after those first books were published. Mildred wrote 23 Nancy Drew books establishing the Nancy Drew character. During World War 2, Mildred became a newspaper reporter. And, she loved to fly airplanes. Asked in 1999 about what readers get from Nancy, she said: Most of them identified with her. In my fan mail that I receive, they say that they were inspired to go do things for themselves, to go build themselves careers. I think it was an incentive to go out into the world and to become someone as a woman, you know. Mildred Wirt Benson was 96 years old and still writing a weekly newspaper column when she died six years ago. Applewood Books has been republishing Nancy Drew books as they were originally written. We read both the rewritten 1959 The Hidden Staircase and the original 1930 version. I think the original story was much better despite some ethic portrayals that seem inappropriate by today’s standards. Nowadays, Nancy drives a hybrid car and has trouble keeping her cell phone charged. We have also watched motion picture portrayals of Nancy. There are black and white movies from the 40s and a TV series from the 60s. My mother, wife, daughters and I went to the new movie that came out a year or two ago.
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Post by Lukaran on Feb 21, 2009 12:39:27 GMT -5
I didn't realize the Nancy Drew books had been rewritten. I'll see if I can find some of the original versions. I 'd like to see what was changed.
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Post by amnesia on May 19, 2010 15:11:46 GMT -5
My name is Steve and I'm a librarian in Illinois. I stumbled across this board looking for Michael Crichton information. Hello everyone
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Post by Kahlessa on May 19, 2010 15:19:18 GMT -5
My name is Steve and I'm a librarian in Illinois. I stumbled across this board looking for Michael Crichton information. Hello everyone Welcome Steve! I live in libraries, and librarians rock!
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Post by amnesia on May 19, 2010 15:36:27 GMT -5
Thanks, it's good to be here! I've been a Crichton fan for many years and just finished reading Pirate Latitudes. My other favorite authors are Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick. I'm currently working on a book about Dick. I don't feel like I rock but I appreciate the sentiment.
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