Quality Adventure Reading

MileHiDad
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Quality adventure reading to pass the time when you aren’t tapping a keyboard when the kids are a sleep, I knocked out 21 of them during the early days of isolation of feeding, burping, napping and the changing stage, also known as infancy. It was just myself, a high maintenance poop factory and my liberation of going someplace without leaving the room.

Do yourself a favor and go to your local library or the Barnes and Noble and browse all the books written by Clive Cussler with the help of his son Dirk on some books or Craig Dirgo, Paul Kemprekos or Jack Du Brul on others. I think he has 31 books in publication about the NUMA files divided into character plots.

NUMA is the National Underwater Marine Agency was headed by Admiral Sandecker who retired and was replaced with the legendary Dirk Pitt. These books are great, they have a main diabolical plot with three or four equally diabolical subplots in each book, although you don’t need to read these books in order, I highly recommend it be cause in the book there are always references to previous adventures and subplots.

Start you’re reading now with the Mediterranean Caper then progress your way up through them all, it’s great reading at every page turn! Best of all each character series runs across characters from the other books in passing and even Clive writes himself into the story in a cameo appearance as a different person in each book. Just don’t get so caught up in the plot so much that you tune out local noises.

MileHiDad

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Uke_Skywalker
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Clive Cussler is awesome!!

I agree, Clive is great!! I really like his earlier stuff (pre-dragon) better than some of his later stuff (for example Inca Gold and Atlantis Found), Have you seen the two movies? I know everyone saw Sahara last year (I personally didn't think it was that bad), but how many people remember the 1980 cringe fest "Raise the Titanic", Clive said he would never let anyone make another movie adaptation after that disaster. I guess the price was right. He has a museum out in Arvada of all his classic cars,
http://www.cusslermuseum.com/
So here is a call to all Colorado Dads, this spring when it opens again, lets get down there!!
I also went back and re-read all of my Tom Clancey stuff this summer, I was amazed at how "Cold War-ish" it all was, but an enjoyable blast from the past, it seems post-Rainbow Six he has been doing Non-Fiction and the co-authored stuff like Op-Center (both paths that Clive has gone down as well i.e. Treasure Hunters, and the books he writes with Kemperkos and Dirgo).
The series I am reading right now is a called the Sister Fidelma Mysteries by Peter Tremayne, it is set in 600AD Ireland, there are a bunch of books in the series, I am about half way through them now. It is a really interesting look at "Newly" Christian Ireland, in between people being done away with in all sorts of dastardly ways.
I would agree carving out a little time to read really makes a difference, and I would really like to hear what other people are reading, besides the Tremayne stuff I am still reading the Authors I read in High School, and that was a LOONNNNGGG time ago.

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Cool

Wow cool another Colorado Dad, Parker nonetheless...
I just turned the last pages of Clives latest "Skelton Coast" this afternoon about the latest and greatest exploits of Juan Cabrillo. His next Dirk Pitt book will be released 11/27, "Treasure Of Khan". Gotta get it next and that will bring me up to date on all his books.

Hey Doug drop me an email by clicking my user name in the header and go to contact, I am accepting mail. We should hook up someday, my kid just turned 4.

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