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Posted: 11/8/2016 4:59:43 PM EDT
Looking for a few good ones to read. GO!
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No Country For Old Men
Blood Meridian Really, pretty much anything by Cormac McCarthy. |
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Looking for a few good ones to read. GO! View Quote Tom Clancy's Without Remorse. It's packed full of a Special Forces bum murdering drug dealers with a "bang stick", and then feeding the corpses to the crabs off shore of New England. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Moby Dick Giant by Edna Ferber (Texas cattle and oil) |
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A few posts above already listed a few of mine.
Cryptonomicon Count of Monte Cristo Also, Brothers Karamazov Anathem |
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Quoted: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jWRTibeVojY/ULpWZmXzopI/AAAAAAAAAPM/0UEUuIz2bWE/s1600/Resensi+novel+Lolita.jpg Sarcasm aside, holy balls did Nabokov write some beautiful prose. View Quote And to think English (in which the book was written) wasn't his native language... |
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Lord of the Rings
I've lost count of how many times I've read it in the past 40 years. |
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Anything by Stephen Hunter in his Bob Lee Swager series of novels.
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The Life of Pi
The Pillars of the Earth Infinite Jest - either the greatest book I've ever read or the worst - depends on the day. |
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Another vote for Dune. Shame no one has made a good movie of it that stayed true to the books.
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so many of my favorites have already been mentioned such that I'll throw an odd one out there: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse or Under the Glacier by Halldor Laxness |
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Earth Abides
Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. The story was set in the United States in the 1940s, in Berkeley, California. https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Abides-George-R-Stewart/dp/0345487133/ The Old Man and the Boy This classic captures the relationship between a man and his grandson as they fish and hunt the lakes and woods of North Carolina. https://www.amazon.com/Old-Man-Boy-Robert-Ruark/dp/080502669X/ |
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Das Boot, Lothar Gunter Buchheim
Hell Has No Heroes (originally published as Barbara), Wayne Robinson Gates of Fire, Stephen Pressfield North Cape, Joe Poyer The Savage Sea, Nicholas Monserrat Rifleman Dodd, C.S. Forester All 21 of the Master and Commander series, Patrick O'Brian The Saxon series, Bernard Cornwell |
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Without Remorse is awesome. So is Red Storm Rising. Team Yankee and Red Phoenix are very enjoyable too.
LOTR and Harry Potter series. Wheel of Time if hair braid tugging turns you on. |
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Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy. View Quote Man I tried to re-read that recently, got 200 pages into it, and gave up. After about 40 iterations of character introductions I lost patience. "Lieutenant Maxwell sighed as he filled out another fitness report under the sickly green flickering light of his built-in fluorescent desk lamp. His years at Annapolis had hardly prepared him for the drudgery and mindless toll for which the United States Navy was so justly renowned, but he silently thanked his mentors he had encountered during his postgrad years at Princeton for the discipline and rigor to tackle and finish such a thankless task. Putting down his #2 Lighthouse for the Blind regulation pencil, he gazed silently at the photo of his fiancee, Susan, as he wondered where she was now. Perhaps pulling another 18 hour stint in the Baltimore E.R.? Or trying to coax another hot shower from the rusty and fickle plumbing system of the old, sprawling farmhouse they had bought together?" |
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Awesome so many replies for Red Storm Rising. I'd add Charm School and Plum Island.
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The Stand by Stephen King. Was some abortive miniseries out on it too, but the book was eleventy billion times better.
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