Spy Wars
If the CIA is a screwed up as this book makes out, then George Tenant getting the Medal of Freedom make a lot more sense.
War Journal
The history and back story of the religious conflict in Iraq are interesting and well written. But Engel’s overweening ambition oozes through the pages and makes any attempt at personal revelation seem forced and disingenuous.
Resolution
Picks up where Appaloosa left off. Not sure how often gun fighters quoted Rousseau, but there it is.
Now & Then
Spenser knocks heads with a new age revolutionary.
Ten Thousand Sorrows
Raw, visceral and honest. Won’t make Ralph Reed’s book list.
Medal of Honor
Some interesting facts and history about the medal. The Mike Wallace commentary adds nothing.
Medal of Honor: Profiles of America’s Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present
Theodore Roosevelt
Normally I only care for a novel if the ending is good…There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
Early Autumn
One of the more different Spencer novels. Good for an afternoon.
Maintenance Clean-up task not deleting files
I configured a Sql 2005 Maintenance clean-up task to delete all .bak files older than five days, but the historical backups were never deleted.
The only way I could get the clean-up task to function was to change the .bak extension to *.*. Now, all files older than five days are removed. Go figure.
The Talisman
Weird and disjointed.
Open folders in Windows Explorer mode by default (i.e. with folder pane enabled)
Open folders in Windows Explorer mode by default (i.e. with folder pane enabled)
When you double-click a folder, it opens the folder Window without the Explorer bar enabled (default setting). When you right-click on the folder and choose Explore, it does. To set Explore as the default action, follow these steps:
* Open My Computer window.
* Click Tools, Folder Options, then click File Types.
* From the list, locate the entry FOLDER with extension of (NONE).
* Click Advanced, select Explore, then Set Default
* Click OK and close the dialog.
Lush Life
A wandering, disjointed tale. Takes a while to get going. If you haven’t read anything by Price, I’d recommend Clockers over this.
Fatal Beauty
This book is a combination of unraveling sweater and car wreck.
Spare Change
I’ve read almost everything by Parker. The Sunny Randall series is the least interesting.
Up In Honey’s Room
Picks up where the NYT serial left off with the Marshall chasing escaped POWs.
Split Images
Reading Elmore is like floating down a river on a warm summer day.
The Republic of Pirates
Very well researched. A lot of interesting facts and stories.
Mad Dogs
30 pages of back story nearly 2/3rds of the way through. At least it was easy to skim.
Hunter’s Moon
Keeps you involved. Weird and twisted.
