Congrats! Beauty of a starter pipe too. I still have my first pipe - a cob - and pull it out on occasion. Nothing like a pipe and a good book on a cool morning.
Thank you! What you described sounds like a wonderful way to start your day! I look forward to those mornings.Congrats! Beauty of a starter pipe too. I still have my first pipe - a cob - and pull it out on occasion. Nothing like a pipe and a good book on a cool morning.
Congrats! Beauty of a starter pipe too. I still have my first pipe - a cob - and pull it out on occasion. Nothing like a pipe and a good book on a cool morning.
A few years ago on another forum we had a baccy and book PIF. One of us would post up a genre and a variety of tobacco, upon which somebody sent a book and a few samples of tobacco, hence posting his own interests. That was fun.
If anybody were to get something like this started i would be super into itThat's a really neat idea. The first thing that popped to mind was a Pete and an English blend with one of the Sherlock Holmes books. Or, a dress billiard and Gatsby Luxury Flake with The Great Gatsby.
I'd go This Side of Paradise, because I haven't read it yet.You just HAD to say that, didn't you. I pulled out five or six novels about six months ago and have only went through two of them...one in about eight hours at one setting...Michael Crichton's CONGO.
Now what next...Fitzgerald's THIS SIDE OF PARADISE or THE GREAT GASTBY again. Or maybe Wambaugh's THE ONION FIELD (I remember when that really happened), or Ludlum's THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, or Clancy's EXECUTIVE ORDERS again. When you leave some books on the shelf for a few years they are almost like new reading again.
Decisions, decisions....
Yes...a good pipe, a good book....
I may need to look at getting some Hemingway and Robert Ruark ones.
I'd go This Side of Paradise, because I haven't read it yet.
I really like Fitzgerald. Gatsby is good, i also really liked thw one about the couple on thw french riviera....was it the bautiful and the damned?He's a bit "flowery" on the prose in that one, but I think it was his first published book. The Great Gatsby was better.
There is a writer's club in town that I've been thinking about attending that meets once a month. I won several writing competitions in college, and received an English scholarship, but you can't tell it by my writing and spelling now.
I wonder if they allow pipe smoking at the writer's club meetings.
Oh, and to derail the thread again (I'm real good at that)...I heard Hemingway used one of these from time to time...a Royal Quiet De Luxe. The numbers on mine show it to be made in 1948. It still works great.
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I might need to put some paper in it and start using it again...maybe I'll get my muse back.
Can you still get ribbons?Oh, and to derail the thread again (I'm real good at that)...I heard Hemingway used one of these from time to time...a Royal Quiet De Luxe. The numbers on mine show it to be made in 1948. It still works great.
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I might need to put some paper in it and start using it again...maybe I'll get my muse back.
Where does it plug in and where's the screen?Oh, and to derail the thread again (I'm real good at that)...I heard Hemingway used one of these from time to time...a Royal Quiet De Luxe. The numbers on mine show it to be made in 1948. It still works great.
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I might need to put some paper in it and start using it again...maybe I'll get my muse back.
Can you still get ribbons?
Where does it plug in and where's the screen?
That's a beauty!Oh, and to derail the thread again (I'm real good at that)...I heard Hemingway used one of these from time to time...a Royal Quiet De Luxe. The numbers on mine show it to be made in 1948. It still works great.
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I might need to put some paper in it and start using it again...maybe I'll get my muse back.