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Posted: 11/8/2016 5:55:44 PM EDT
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The Annals of the Black Company....The Books of the South, and Glittering Plain books.
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Posted: 11/8/2016 5:55:53 PM EDT
[#2]
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Posted: 11/8/2016 5:56:09 PM EDT
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Cryptonomicon I need to take another shot at that one. Snow Crash is one of my favorites, and just when I started getting in to Cryptonomicon life got busy. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 5:57:38 PM EDT
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Dreams of My Father by Barrack Obama
Just kidding. Probably Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 5:58:58 PM EDT
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Chesapeake,Hawaii,and Alaska. By James Michener are all good reads.
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Posted: 11/8/2016 5:59:59 PM EDT
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The Stand is #1 for me
But if you want more....... The Dark Tower series is ducking amazing. 8 books so far 
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:02:55 PM EDT
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One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given was to read great books three times; once as a young person, once again in middle age, and finally in the twilight years. It's amazing how different the narrative becomes due to your own experiences.
Re-read the ones you were forced to read in junior high and high school: Tom Sawyer, All Quiet on the Western Front, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Catch-22, and so forth. You'll actually enjoy them this time around. For sheer escapist reading, I really enjoyed C.S. Forester's 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. It'll keep you occupied for a while. Then again, there's classic science fiction. It's hard to go wrong with early Heinlein, or anything by Phillip K. Dick. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:09:24 PM EDT
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The author that appealed to my tastes the most was Hermann Hesse. So, Magister Ludi, Steppenwolf. Rosshalde, Gertrude, Beneath the Wheel, Siddhartha, Peter Camenzind all stand out as readings from my early 20s. I don't know if they'll appeal me now, but I remember thinking how lyrical these were... unlike anything else I had ever read.
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:11:30 PM EDT
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The Hobbit. Read it every Summer. Not really a novel as much as a kid's book, but awesome nonetheless. Other than that The Black Company series by Glen Cook. Military fantasy with some great characters.
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:12:04 PM EDT
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One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given was to read great books three times; once as a young person, once again in middle age, and finally in the twilight years. It's amazing how different the narrative becomes due to your own experiences. Re-read the ones you were forced to read in junior high and high school: Tom Sawyer, All Quiet on the Western Front, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Catch-22, and so forth. You'll actually enjoy them this time around. For sheer escapist reading, I really enjoyed C.S. Forester's 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. It'll keep you occupied for a while. Then again, there's classic science fiction. It's hard to go wrong with early Heinlein, or anything by Phillip K. Dick. My school sucked. We didn't have to read any of those! |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:13:59 PM EDT
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The Dark Tower.
FerFAL |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:16:19 PM EDT
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakam1
East of Eden by Steinbeck. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:17:33 PM EDT
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Can't possibly pick just one. Lots of good suggestions already. I'll add just a few that I didn't notice. Given the day, the dystopian genre is coming to mind most quickly!
Brave New World 1984 The Road Heart of Darkness The Stranger The Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Last of the Mohicans |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:17:46 PM EDT
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Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:21:54 PM EDT
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Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:26:20 PM EDT
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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.  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Looking for a few good ones to read. GO! 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. Same here. I've lost track of how many time I've read it. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:26:32 PM EDT
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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?" Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy. 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?" I really liked RSR thirty years ago, but Clancy hasn't aged well for me either. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:28:07 PM EDT
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Cryptonomicon Same. It's a motivational treatise to me. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:30:14 PM EDT
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All Quiet on the Western Front Good book. Read the sequel if you haven't. The Road Back is the name of it. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:30:44 PM EDT
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I didn't think most of you could read that well.
Given how many are listing Clancy novels, I still think that. 
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:32:59 PM EDT
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My top 60:
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:37:20 PM EDT
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakam1 East of Eden by Steinbeck. I just finished the "Wind Up Bird". It messed with my head a little bit. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:37:24 PM EDT
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"The Passage" by Justin Cronin
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:37:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pillars of the Earth World Without End is the follow up and great as well. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:39:08 PM EDT
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Are grown ass men seriously talking about Harry Potter and fucking Twilight?
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:41:09 PM EDT
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The Corps
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:44:12 PM EDT
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The Corps W.E.B. Griffin's The Corps and The Brotherhood series are all great books. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:45:04 PM EDT
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Job: A Comedy of Justice
Folks who've read it, even hardcore Heinlein fans, might think I'm weird. It's far from the best book ever written, or even the best book Heinlein ever wrote. Something about it sucks me in every time a pick it up though; I love that book. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:45:08 PM EDT
[#29]
Starship Troopers RA Heinlein
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:48:00 PM EDT
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Are grown ass men seriously talking about Harry Potter and fucking Twilight? I drive over 3 hours a day and it was some of the few books on CD my local library had. They are heavy on young adult and chick books so I took a chance. The books are actually not that bad, espically the Harry Potter books. My list is about a year old and I have read about 30 more books since then and I have not had time to update it. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:48:27 PM EDT
[#31]
The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:48:50 PM EDT
[#32]
Red Storm Rising
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:49:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Uhhh. My wife and her sister love this shit. Thankfully a movie just hit cable that we can all enjoy together: Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies. Way better than the BBC version they are always watching. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Pride & Prejudice Seriously. Uhhh. My wife and her sister love this shit. Thankfully a movie just hit cable that we can all enjoy together: Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies. Way better than the BBC version they are always watching. The novel is what interested me. If you peel back the onion a bit, it's a scathing and witty criticism of society and human nature (if you have some context about the life of Jane Austen and the confines of Engish upper class society). If you only swallow it as a surface-level love story, it's still a good one, but there's a shit ton more going on in her writing than is first obvious. There's a reason it's a classic. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:50:08 PM EDT
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Stephen King's "IT." Read that 1100 page behemoth when I was like 10-11yo and gave me nightmares for weeks. Great book
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:50:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Are grown ass men seriously talking about Harry Potter and fucking Twilight? Not so much. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:51:34 PM EDT
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http://louislamour.com/community/booklist.htm
Haven't read them all of course but most of the old western ones. While reading them I would always imagine the cowboy as Marty Robbins or Clint Eastwood. Really enjoyed them. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:53:10 PM EDT
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Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:53:40 PM EDT
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Unintended consequences.
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:57:38 PM EDT
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Since my favorite Clancy novels already have their place, I have to go with The Forever War.
I liked Starship Troopers, but TFW stuck with me. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:58:13 PM EDT
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Are grown ass men seriously talking about Harry Potter and fucking Twilight? Not so much. Harry Potter is good stuff, including for its ability to instill a healthy skepticism in the minds of young people about the confluence of government and the press in propaganda against the truth. My kiddo read Book 5 and had a new, very healthy, skepticism for the main stream media and the political elite. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:58:16 PM EDT
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Same. It's a motivational treatise to me. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Cryptonomicon Same. It's a motivational treatise to me. bought on my kindle, but haven't read it yet. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 6:58:33 PM EDT
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The Fountainhead.
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Posted: 11/8/2016 7:00:13 PM EDT
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Shogun, by James Clavell
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Posted: 11/8/2016 7:00:45 PM EDT
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Probably The Count of Monte Cristo. My second favorite. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 7:15:24 PM EDT
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W.E.B. Griffin's The Corps and The Brotherhood series are all great books. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The Corps W.E.B. Griffin's The Corps and The Brotherhood series are all great books. This. Not crazy about his badge of honor series, but everything else is great. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 7:24:07 PM EDT
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Posted: 11/8/2016 7:24:57 PM EDT
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Treasure Island
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Posted: 11/8/2016 7:25:18 PM EDT
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The one I've read the most is Starship Troopers. Probably read it about 8 times in the last 35/40 years.
I really like Old Man's War, too. I've read it 3 times in the last 5 or 6 years. Red Storm Rising is a good book, too. As is Flight of the Intruder and Intruders. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 7:29:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Harry Potter is good stuff, including for its ability to instill a healthy skepticism in the minds of young people about the confluence of government and the press in propaganda against the truth. My kiddo read Book 5 and had a new, very healthy, skepticism for the main stream media and the political elite. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Are grown ass men seriously talking about Harry Potter and fucking Twilight? Not so much. Harry Potter is good stuff, including for its ability to instill a healthy skepticism in the minds of young people about the confluence of government and the press in propaganda against the truth. My kiddo read Book 5 and had a new, very healthy, skepticism for the main stream media and the political elite. I just meant he's protesting what's mostly not being talked about. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 7:30:11 PM EDT
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The Hornblower series
The Killer Angels From Here to Eternity |
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