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Posted: 11/8/2016 9:28:31 PM EDT
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Not sure which one is best. Novels I have read several times and will likely read again:
Dune Nineteen Eighty Four Stranger in a Strange Land Starship Troopers Alas, Babylon |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 9:30:42 PM EDT
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Posted: 11/8/2016 9:45:32 PM EDT
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I'd forgotten about this one. What a great book, not a bad movie either. The old movie in b&w. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The Razors Edge by W. Somerset Maugham I'd forgotten about this one. What a great book, not a bad movie either. The old movie in b&w. ...with Tyrone power. I liked the film version starring Bill Murray as Larry Darrell. To me, Bill Murray perfectly captured the character. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 9:51:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/8/2016 9:53:42 PM EDT
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Too broad a question...
12-high school, probably Dune and LOTR College, the Moon is a Harsh Mistress, neuromancer, David Brin's Uplift trilogies, Armor (Steakley) Post college - lots of Hugo/ Nebula winning stuff Old fogey: mix of all of it... lots of Cherryh, Brandon Sanderson, Rothfuss Mix in some classics, non-sf fiction, etc... |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 9:59:03 PM EDT
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Atlas Shrugged. Depending on how this election turns out I see a YUUUUGE surge in sales.
You don't have to be a card carrying follower of Objectivism to realize that an ugly little Jewish chick called this shit decades ago. God Speed Ayn and thanks for the heads up  |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 10:05:20 PM EDT
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Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in Time of Cholera Both by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 10:09:56 PM EDT
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Everything by Larry Correia
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Posted: 11/8/2016 10:10:20 PM EDT
[#9]
Shogun or The Three Musketeers
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Posted: 11/8/2016 10:14:43 PM EDT
[#10]
The Chiorboys by Joseph Wambaugh.
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Posted: 11/8/2016 10:20:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Chiorboys by Joseph Wambaugh. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 10:26:33 PM EDT
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Without Remorse
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan The John Rain series - Barry Eisler |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 10:26:42 PM EDT
[#13]
Heart of Darkness.
Picture of Dorian Gray. Catcher in the Rye. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 10:31:02 PM EDT
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I'm to laxy to read 5 pages, so here are a few.
The leatherstocking tales by James F Cooper ( Deerslayer, The Inland Sea, The Pathfinder, The Pioneerd, The Prairee, etc.) The original Dirk Pitt novels by Clyve Cussler Anything by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (particularly One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward and The Gulag Archiprligo) Most any Wielkie Collins novel (Moonstone, Woman in White, Lady nd The Law are three of his best) The Rifleman by John Brick (early Amrican era akin to Coopers Deerslayer/Hawkeye/Natty Bumpo charscter, first novel I ever read in first grade) Foundation Trilogy by Issac Azimov (plus MANY more including the I Robot series) John Steinbeck Hemingway Rudyard Kipling and one of the best, and quirkiest, Kurt Vonnegut - everything he ever wrote :) |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 10:53:45 PM EDT
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Outstanding book. Cops know cops. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The Chiorboys by Joseph Wambaugh. I came to post this. Damn fine read. Add The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, and the Onion Field to complete a pretty dark look at the LAPD in the late 60's and 70's. Also, Guns of the South if it hasn't been mentioned. |
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Posted: 11/8/2016 11:34:44 PM EDT
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Dirac Angestun Gesept:
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Posted: 11/9/2016 5:22:29 PM EDT
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That was almost my #1. Quote HistoryQuoted:
That was almost my #1. Yeah, Catch-22 is definitely in my top 5. |
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Posted: 11/9/2016 5:52:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ...with Tyrone power. I liked the film version starring Bill Murray as Larry Darrell. To me, Bill Murray perfectly captured the character. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: The Razors Edge by W. Somerset Maugham I'd forgotten about this one. What a great book, not a bad movie either. The old movie in b&w. ...with Tyrone power. I liked the film version starring Bill Murray as Larry Darrell. To me, Bill Murray perfectly captured the character. +1 to the book and the Bill Murray adaptation. One of my favorite movies, criminally ignored by the critics.  |
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Posted: 11/9/2016 5:53:30 PM EDT
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Nova - Samuel R Delaney |
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Posted: 11/9/2016 5:55:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/9/2016 6:08:59 PM EDT
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Ivanhoe.
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Posted: 11/9/2016 6:28:20 PM EDT
[#22]
Jim Corbett, Man Eaters of Kumaon
I lost my first edition years ago. 
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Posted: 11/9/2016 6:55:14 PM EDT
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LOTR
Dune Any James Clavell book. He died prematurely so no more books. 
Not yet mentioned, The Millennium Trilogy. Steig Larsson. Another premature death. Quoted:
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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. No love for Jennifer Ehle & Colin Firth? |
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Posted: 11/9/2016 7:02:23 PM EDT
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The Feathermen
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Posted: 11/9/2016 7:30:34 PM EDT
[#25]
Hyperion
Watership Down
Slaughterhouse 5 Game of Thrones Startide Rising Lonesome Dove No Country for Old Men Dune |
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Posted: 11/9/2016 8:21:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No love for Jennifer Ehle & Colin Firth? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 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. No love for Jennifer Ehle & Colin Firth? The Joe Wright 2005 film version is really great, a more condensed/stripped version of the novel but it really conveys the interplay between Darcy & Elizabeth in a perfect way, how out of place he feels and how that translates to his being socially abrasive, and how she inadvertently sinks the hooks into him and twists. It's a great movie, chick flick and all, and is shot like pure art. Almost any "pause" in that movie looks like a painting. |
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Posted: 11/9/2016 8:53:57 PM EDT
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Untended Consequences if you love guns
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Posted: 11/9/2016 8:55:59 PM EDT
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Jack London Sea Wolf or Blood Meridian Cormac MCarthy.
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Posted: 11/9/2016 9:03:46 PM EDT
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Posted: 11/9/2016 9:19:02 PM EDT
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Herman Wouk
The Winds of War War and Remembrance |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 2:28:28 AM EDT
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The Dying Earth by Jack Vance. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 2:47:51 AM EDT
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
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Posted: 11/10/2016 2:57:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/10/2016 3:18:13 AM EDT
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Brothers Karamazov
Funny as hell. Loved it. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 3:22:46 AM EDT
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I have read and love most of what's been posted.
Has anyone mentioned The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck? Fascinating novel on Chinese culture leading up to and during the Boxer rebellion. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 3:30:03 AM EDT
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The Sun Also Rises
Love in the Time of Cholera One Hundred Years of Solitude |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 3:36:10 AM EDT
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The Fountainhead.
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Posted: 11/10/2016 4:04:37 AM EDT
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Starship Troopers RA Heinlein |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 4:13:51 AM EDT
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The Stand or Red Storm Rising. Two of my top ten. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 4:16:19 AM EDT
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Another here for Red Storm Rising! |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 4:24:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryGreat list! Mine would be similar but include more Rudyard Kipling and George RR Martin. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 4:50:57 AM EDT
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Peter Straub's Shadowland.
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Posted: 11/10/2016 5:11:48 AM EDT
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Not sure which one is best. Novels I have read several times and will likely read again: Dune Nineteen Eighty Four Stranger in a Strange Land Starship Troopers Alas, Babylon All of these are good reads, esp. "Stranger" and "Starship Troopers." eta "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" is one of the most inspiring books i've ever read! It's about The Battle Off Samar." A true David vs. Goliath story. 6 escort carriers, 3 destroyers, 4 destroyer escorts, 400 aircraft vs. 4 battleships, 6 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 11 destroyers, 30 aircraft (in kamikaze attack) |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 5:13:47 AM EDT
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"Shibumi" by Trevanian .... This |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 5:15:03 AM EDT
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The Stand
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Posted: 11/10/2016 5:39:30 AM EDT
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Alas, Babylon.
Lights Out. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 9:37:44 AM EDT
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The Sun Also Rises Love in the Time of Cholera One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Marquez wrote some fine novels, for sure. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 10:28:56 AM EDT
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Anything my Louis L'amour
If there was one author I could impress upon a child as to how a man should act and think, it would be the characters of L'amour novels. Simple, direct, entertaining reads about men carving out their way against wilderness, civilization and other men. If you have a son, make him read LL. If you have a daughter, make her read some LL so she recognizes how a man should act. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 10:54:13 AM EDT
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The Brothers Karamozov.
Moby Dick. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 11:07:01 AM EDT
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Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's a bit dated but quite different from most of the movies
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