<p>Oh, gosh. Thank you and everybody else who puts up with my sea stories. I sure enjoy you, usna09mom and all y'all (that's a Texasism) here.</p>
<p>Yeah, "All Y'all" is the plural of "Y'all"!</p>
<p>I stand corrected--what do I know, I'm a third-generation Californian. Though I still have terrible memories of driving across Texas as a child during the summer in a car without air conditioning on our way to Biloxi, Mississippi. I love Southern literature though and Lady Bird Johnson is one of my favorite people on the planet, next to other famous Texans including Walter Cronkite.</p>
<p>Since we've been living in the South, I've been reading more Southern lit: Besides Faulkner, Twain, and Williams, I've been reading Eudora Welty, Fannie Flagg (I want to live in her books), Pat Conroy, and Rebecca Wells (chick lit but cool). Good stuff.</p>
<p>Speaking of Conroy, I think The Great Santini is one the best, least-known movies around. Robert Duvall as Marine pilot Bull Meacham was amazing.</p>
<p>Speaking of Pat Conroy...loved the BOOK "Prince of Tides" when I read it years ago ...refused to see the movie, could not see Streisand in the role as the shrink! Besides some books just do not translate into film.</p>
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<p>Starship Troopers
Clear and Present Danger
Raise the Titanic
The Bourne Identity</p>
<p>OY! All of them RUINED! :mad:</p>
<p>Zaphod: That's why Clive Cussler filed suit on Sahara & Raise the Titanic and why Tom Clancy is so paranoid - Harrison Ford just isn't right. I did love The Hunt for Red October, however, (probably due to Sean Connery) possibly the only thing Alec Baldwin has ever done that I like.</p>
<p>Ain't that the truth! I don't know about you, but Alec Baldwin is EXACTLY the way I always envisioned Jack Ryan.</p>
<p>Only Jack Ryan isn't clueless or obnoxious like Baldwin. :D</p>
<p>The Sum OF Our Fears...refused to see the movie but highly recommend the book. (Tom Clancy)</p>
<p>The book was unbelieveable, especially after the bomb went boom. After that, it was like "OMG! OMG! OMG!" I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Started at 8PM, didn't finish until 4:30AM.</p>
<p>The movie, in a word, sucked. They copied scenes from Red Storm Rising, Ben AFLACK is no Jack Ryan, and the fact that they made the enemy a PC one ticked me off. :mad:</p>
<p>The only reedeeming feature in that movie was Morgan Freeman, and he got burnt to a cinder. WAY TO GO, Mr. Director! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Jack Ryan, former USNA history professor, yeah!</p>
<p>Funny y'all mention Pat Conroy - he had a scathing letter to the editor of our local newspaper today. Doesn't care for our mayor much. I wouldn't mind seeing ole Pat run for mayor - he sure loves our town!</p>
<p>You can imagine what a local hero he is around here! Glad to know his books are popular among the CC crowd - and of course the movies are never as good as the books!</p>
<p>Pat's one guy I'd like to meet.</p>