[Spridgets] Goods Books for a Winter's Storm

[Tim Collins]

Dave,
You should submit your prose to http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/.

Of course we hold near and dear the 2005 winner of this contest with 
the prose. . .

As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg 
carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet 
pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, 
aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil 
dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in 
chapter seven of the shop manual.

The winner of this year's 23rd annual challenge, by Dan McKay, a 
43-year-old quantitative analyst with Microsoft Great Plains, in 
Fargo, North Dakota, certainly shows such a paucity of aestheticism, 
though no lack of imagination:



At 10:59 AM 2/13/2013, dwoerpel wrote:
>ROTFLMAO!!  This has happened to me several times and you are dead 
>on with his Michener/Melville-esque "attention to detail".
>What ever happened to, "It was a dark and stormy night...."?  Is 
>Clancy writing his own stuff again or is he franchised out?
>He needs some LBC's incorporated into the plot.  I can visualize the words:
>
>In his vain attempt to catch the green eyed, 31 year old, 6'8", 
>blond killer, Jack Ryan desperately downshifts his Bugeye Sprite 
>with the twin turbo 948cc, 210 bhp motor protesting at 8000 rpms 
>from 2nd gear to 1st, forgetting the smooth case transmission, # 
>22493, is without synchromesh on its 3.627:1 first gear....... and 
>you may continue the description of the consequences of that action 
>in your minds eye.
>
>Boy this takes up a lot of bandwidth!  Don't you wish everyone wrote 
>this way Mark?
>
>We now return you to your regularly schedule event.
>
>DW
>
>
>
>On 2/9/2013 6:25 PM, HealeyRick wrote:
>>851 pp?  Sometimes, Clancy could spare me some details.  Why does his stuff
>>have to be like:
>>
>>"The sniper cradled his Remington MSR chambered in
>>.338
>>Lapua Magnum,  He loaded the 14.93 mm diameter and 93.5 mm long cartridge
>>manufactured in Lapua, Finland which is located next to the Lapua 
>>River in the
>>province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region.
>>The town has a population of 14,612 (31 December 2012) and covers an area of
>>750.77 square kilometres (289.87 sq mi) of which 13.67 km2 (5.28 sq mi) is
>>water. The population density is 19.82 inhabitants per square kilometre
>>(51.3 /sq mi)"
>>
>>You get the idea.  OTOH, maybe I'm just mad at him for the day
>>I was flying Boston to Phoenix and grabbed a Clancy book at the airport
>>bookstore for the flight.  About 20 pages in, I realized I had already read
>>it.  It was a very long flight.
>>
>>
>>Rick
>>
>>
>>"Madman in a death machine"
>>Follow
>>My Nasty Boy Build:  http://tinyurl.com/yj52fwo
>>________________________________
>>   From: James Gruber <thistle_3619 at yahoo.com>
>>To: Spridgets Digest <spridgets at autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Saturday, February 9,
>>2013 2:55 PM
>>Subject: [Spridgets] Goods Books for a Winter's Storm
>>
>>Hey the
>>new Tom Clancy, Threat Vector,  is indeed a page turner. 851 to be
>>precise.
>>The guy continues to stay on top of his game and stuff on cyber
>>warfare seems
>>really close to reality.
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Tim Collins