Double D
alphabetically challenged
One of my passions is reading my book budget is higher than my cigar budget. I like to match a cigar to a particular book as a compliment to the story or topic. I read almost anything except horror just dont care for it.
What i would like to do is a PIF with books. The way it would work is someone would put up a book with a short synopsis of what it is about. This should include title, author, page count and genure Ie humor Sci fi etc. the person who wants to read it would then post that they wanted it the person would then post what cigar they were sending with the book as a compliment to it it only has to be one stick but if someone wants to add more that is up to them.
The person who is on the receiving end must then offer up a book of their own with a cigar. The person receiving will also be expected to do a short review of the book with thier opinion and whether the cigar was a good match. Then they place the book back up for grabs with the stick they would have chosen.
I think we should make a time limit of 1 month to finish the book unless it is exceptionally long.
None of the books offered up should be religious texts or blatantly political IE al franken anne coulter types because this could cause a breach of the board rules.
do not post what cigar you are including until someone indicates they want the book then edit the post and put in what cigar. the reason for this is because this is about the books not the cigar.
there is no price tag on the cigar it just has to be something you think would go well with that book.
Audio Books are ok just indicate they are audio
I will offer up after Fidel written by Brian latell 264 pages. This book is a fairly good short history of how castro came about and what the author thinks will happen after he steps down. Which has happened since the printing of this book.
I will also offer up Phules Company written by Robert Asprin this is a humorous military fantasy book 232 pages very easy read and funny as hell. It is basically a spoof on the foriegn legion with a space setting and aliens.
and last one I will offer up is Boss of bosses written by Joseph F Obrien and Andris Kurins it is 373 pages and is about Paul Castellano and how he ended up murdered written by two FBI agents good read.
westies went to double d stick hemi signature maduro
boss of bosses went to king antzt with a cao tony soprano signature
phules company went to xranger with a short story
Good Omens to be paired with Cabaiguan Guapos to Kingantz enjoy
The Rising by Brian Keene to Garvey
included with the graycliff double espresso a cigar that can wake the dead.
books still open
Garvey Has
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
An awesome epic that gives you a look at the ancient world through the eyes of Greek & Persian soldiers.
double d has after fidel
XRanger has
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, Book one of His Dark Materials series. It is a good Fantasy book that I found myself getting wrapped up in. I really enjoyed reading it.
Pages: 351
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing?victims of so-called "Gobblers"?and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved. --This text refers to the Paperback edition
What i would like to do is a PIF with books. The way it would work is someone would put up a book with a short synopsis of what it is about. This should include title, author, page count and genure Ie humor Sci fi etc. the person who wants to read it would then post that they wanted it the person would then post what cigar they were sending with the book as a compliment to it it only has to be one stick but if someone wants to add more that is up to them.
The person who is on the receiving end must then offer up a book of their own with a cigar. The person receiving will also be expected to do a short review of the book with thier opinion and whether the cigar was a good match. Then they place the book back up for grabs with the stick they would have chosen.
I think we should make a time limit of 1 month to finish the book unless it is exceptionally long.
None of the books offered up should be religious texts or blatantly political IE al franken anne coulter types because this could cause a breach of the board rules.
do not post what cigar you are including until someone indicates they want the book then edit the post and put in what cigar. the reason for this is because this is about the books not the cigar.
there is no price tag on the cigar it just has to be something you think would go well with that book.
Audio Books are ok just indicate they are audio
I will offer up after Fidel written by Brian latell 264 pages. This book is a fairly good short history of how castro came about and what the author thinks will happen after he steps down. Which has happened since the printing of this book.
I will also offer up Phules Company written by Robert Asprin this is a humorous military fantasy book 232 pages very easy read and funny as hell. It is basically a spoof on the foriegn legion with a space setting and aliens.
and last one I will offer up is Boss of bosses written by Joseph F Obrien and Andris Kurins it is 373 pages and is about Paul Castellano and how he ended up murdered written by two FBI agents good read.
westies went to double d stick hemi signature maduro
boss of bosses went to king antzt with a cao tony soprano signature
phules company went to xranger with a short story
Good Omens to be paired with Cabaiguan Guapos to Kingantz enjoy
The Rising by Brian Keene to Garvey
included with the graycliff double espresso a cigar that can wake the dead.
books still open
Garvey Has
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
An awesome epic that gives you a look at the ancient world through the eyes of Greek & Persian soldiers.
double d has after fidel
XRanger has
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, Book one of His Dark Materials series. It is a good Fantasy book that I found myself getting wrapped up in. I really enjoyed reading it.
Pages: 351
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing?victims of so-called "Gobblers"?and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved. --This text refers to the Paperback edition
