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Posted: 11/10/2016 11:11:47 AM EDT
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To Kill a Mockingbird Moby Dick Giant by Edna Ferber (Texas cattle and oil) The greatest American novel. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 11:15:01 AM EDT
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Not sure about ever, but this is definitely top in the past ten years.
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Posted: 11/10/2016 11:25:21 AM EDT
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The Three Musketeers, followed by Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.
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Posted: 11/10/2016 1:29:18 PM 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. A good start would be The Sacketts. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BAKYYU/ref=pd_sbs_14_5?ie=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B001BAKYYU&pd_rd_r=DZH1GRDHZSXK6FX37CQA&pd_rd_w=PQlOP&pd_rd_wg=RgYzM&psc=1&refRID=DZH1GRDHZSXK6FX37CQA |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 1:35:08 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. Since you already took this, I will say The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 1:50:15 PM 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. A good start would be The Sacketts. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BAKYYU/ref=pd_sbs_14_5?ie=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B001BAKYYU&pd_rd_r=DZH1GRDHZSXK6FX37CQA&pd_rd_w=PQlOP&pd_rd_wg=RgYzM&psc=1&refRID=DZH1GRDHZSXK6FX37CQA Thank you for posting that. The Sackett series of books are fantastic. The book THE SACKETT COMPANION is also a good thing to have when reading them. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 2:09:29 PM EDT
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Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein
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Posted: 11/10/2016 2:10:37 PM EDT
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Lord Jim
By Joseph Conrad |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 2:28:56 PM EDT
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Dune is a good one for sure; I also liked the Lensmen series.
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Posted: 11/10/2016 4:03:55 PM 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. Good book. I would recommend "Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45" By Barbara Tuchman as a non-fiction companion - continuation to that book. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 4:06:25 PM EDT
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Cryptonomicon First post. Uncanny. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 4:21:28 PM EDT
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The Hunt for Red October.
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Posted: 11/10/2016 4:26:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: First post. Uncanny. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Cryptonomicon First post. Uncanny. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 4:41:35 PM EDT
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I swear that you guys are looking at my book cases... I have about 85% of what has been mentioned so far in my collection...
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Posted: 11/10/2016 6:52:30 PM EDT
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I'm not sure. I'll have to think about that question.
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Posted: 11/10/2016 7:01:35 PM EDT
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First one I thought of was Tai-pan. Have you read all of the books in the saga? I never knew they tied together. Shogun, Tai-pan, etc. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 7:02:13 PM EDT
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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:
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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. I watched that and it wasn't that bad. Neat take on an old classic. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 7:10:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lord Jim By Joseph Conrad Oooh, that's a good one. In my top-five for sure. |
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Posted: 11/10/2016 7:22:17 PM EDT
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Didn't enjoy that one as much as, say, "The Diamond Age". Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Cryptonomicon First post. Uncanny. More of a "Snow Crash" guy myself... |
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Posted: 11/11/2016 8:41:47 AM EDT
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Oooh, that's a good one. In my top-five for sure. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Lord Jim By Joseph Conrad Oooh, that's a good one. In my top-five for sure. I like a dense read. Such a great book. Also.... "Kim" By Rudyard Kipling |
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Posted: 11/11/2016 10:43:50 AM EDT
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American Gods by Neil Gaimen
Its a great read even more so if you like mythology. |
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Posted: 11/11/2016 10:48:14 AM EDT
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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
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Posted: 11/11/2016 11:02:28 AM EDT
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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Posted: 11/11/2016 11:12:58 AM EDT
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I don't generally think much of novels except as a way to pass the time, but if I had to pick one I'll go with Fires on the Plain.
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Posted: 11/11/2016 11:50:29 AM EDT
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I like a dense read. Such a great book. Also.... "Kim" By Rudyard Kipling Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Lord Jim By Joseph Conrad Oooh, that's a good one. In my top-five for sure. I like a dense read. Such a great book. Also.... "Kim" By Rudyard Kipling Kim is brilliant. My dad made me read it when I was in 3rd grade; I resisted it for about 50 pages, then I was hooked. I went from that book to Dune... |
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Posted: 11/11/2016 11:54:17 AM EDT
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Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
This is the book that featured The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent, and the notion that it falls to Man alone to correct Man's problems. |
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Posted: 11/11/2016 11:58:54 AM EDT
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What? No votes for "Fifty Shades of Grey"?
Anyway, lots of great reads listed already so I'll toss in "Gulliver's Travels" by Swift. |
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Posted: 11/11/2016 12:04:08 PM EDT
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IT
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Posted: 11/12/2016 2:31:12 AM EDT
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Have you read all of the books in the saga? I never knew they tied together. Shogun, Tai-pan, etc. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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First one I thought of was Tai-pan. Have you read all of the books in the saga? I never knew they tied together. Shogun, Tai-pan, etc. I love Shogun, really like Tai-Pan, am good with Nobel House. I didn't know there was a fourth. |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 2:32:12 AM EDT
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Lord Jim By Joseph Conrad Oooh, that's a good one. In my top-five for sure. I like a dense read. Such a great book. Also.... "Kim" By Rudyard Kipling I would have to say that Kim is the best one I have read. Very rich, deep, and moving. |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 3:06:04 AM EDT
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I just want to say "Thank you very much" to everyone who has shared their favorite works in this thread, and also "To hell with you jerks". The former because I have dramatically expanded my reading list for the coming months and years, and the latter because you unthinking inhuman trashbags have cost me a great deal of money and I hate you. Please continue. <3
ETA: listen, my dad spent, literally, 28 years of my fucking life (i'm 29, my dad doesn't waste any god damn time) trying to convince me that Red Storm Rising is super legit. I didn't realize it until earlier this year, but he's not kidding, and you can take it from two generations of ridiculous nerd-Americans that Red Storm Rising is read-it-over-and-over-again good. Of course it's silly in spots, of course some of the characters are token and weird, but RSR is so much a thing of its time, and so much a thing of its author that it's just... it's like a perfectly clear crystal through which you can see a man and a time. It is to military-political fiction what metal gear solid is to video games. |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 3:10:27 AM EDT
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Cryptonomicon I found this an interesting book, but it seemed like it was gross at points just to be gross (anything with Sgt Shavto, and Turing.). The Cardinal of the Kremlin is my fave. |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 3:13:40 AM EDT
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Raptor Red- Robert Bakker.
it's basically the theoretical life of a velociraptor from her perspective. Clevely written. Good book. |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 3:26:45 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. I love LL books. Have you read his biography "Education of a Wandering Man" ? |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 3:33:25 AM EDT
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Cryptonomicon This, or SHOGUN by James Clavell. |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 4:26:55 AM EDT
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I just want to say "Thank you very much" to everyone who has shared their favorite works in this thread, and also "To hell with you jerks". The former because I have dramatically expanded my reading list for the coming months and years, and the latter because you unthinking inhuman trashbags have cost me a great deal of money and I hate you. Please continue. <3 ETA: listen, my dad spent, literally, 28 years of my fucking life (i'm 29, my dad doesn't waste any god damn time) trying to convince me that Red Storm Rising is super legit. I didn't realize it until earlier this year, but he's not kidding, and you can take it from two generations of ridiculous nerd-Americans that Red Storm Rising is read-it-over-and-over-again good. Of course it's silly in spots, of course some of the characters are token and weird, but RSR is so much a thing of its time, and so much a thing of its author that it's just... it's like a perfectly clear crystal through which you can see a man and a time. It is to military-political fiction what metal gear solid is to video games. It's fucking gold. Attitude Check! |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 5:00:37 AM EDT
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My side of the mountain. #1
Another real good non fiction book I read when I was a kid is "The man in bearskin".The book is a true accounting of the Dutch settlers in the state of Michigan circa 1847. Their encounters with natives,The people of the 3 fires, dealing with starvation and hard winters. Saved by a stranger who lived in the forest and dressed in bearskin. First printed in 1945 but still available. The cool factor for me as a kid was the story took place in my home town. Available on Amazon currently. Patton's "war as I knew it" Tom Sawyer LT Col' Matt Urban. The most highly decorated Solder of the second war war. ( Sorry Audie ) Urban lived two houses down from me growing up. I'd be treated to war stories on his porch. The Germans called him " The Ghost" Only CMH winner I've ever known. To see a CMH in person gives you goose bumps. Yeah so a few of my favorite books have a personal connection - deal with it :) |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 6:06:30 AM EDT
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Somerset Maugham The Razor's Edge
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Posted: 11/12/2016 8:12:41 AM 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. those 2 series would be tied for 1st in my all time fav novels list. anything with his name on it in the last 10 or so years sucks ass. pretty sure he is not writing them at all. . a few more from the top ten Arthur Hailey , Airport Clive Cussler all the Dirk Pitt books Dale Brown Flight of the old dog Michael Crighton The andromeda strain |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 10:59:35 AM EDT
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Number 1:Byzantium - Stephen Lawhead "Aidan is sent to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the city of Byzantium to present the Holy Roman Emperor with the Book of Kells. On his journey Aidan will become a slave, an ambassador, a spy, a heathen, a Viking and a Saracen before being granted the gift of choosing his own destiny."
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Posted: 11/12/2016 12:34:31 PM EDT
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"Soldier of the Great War"
by Mark Helprin A beautifully written, fantastic book. |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 12:36:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/12/2016 12:44:53 PM EDT
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Glory Road
Stranger in a Strange Land The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Really anything by Heinlein or: Tolkien Douglas Adams |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 1:17:51 PM EDT
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I love LL books. Have you read his biography "Education of a Wandering Man" ? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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. I love LL books. Have you read his biography "Education of a Wandering Man" ? The man lead quite an interesting life, didn't he? If he says there is a water hole in such and such county in a certain place, you can bet he has been there and seen it. Last of the Breed is a good story too. http://www.louislamour.com/novels/lastofbreed.htm |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 2:28:01 PM EDT
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This is one I am fairly surprised hasn't been mentioned yet. Great book.
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Posted: 11/12/2016 3:51:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Cryptonomicon This and Dune are a dead heat for me. James Clavell's Asian series are right up there as well. |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 3:54:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: IT |
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Posted: 11/12/2016 3:56:17 PM EDT
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Centennial by James Michener
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Posted: 11/12/2016 4:13:21 PM EDT
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Blood Meridian
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Posted: 11/12/2016 4:13:21 PM EDT
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The man lead quite an interesting life, didn't he? If he says there is a water hole in such and such county in a certain place, you can bet he has been there and seen it. Last of the Breed is a good story too. http://www.louislamour.com/novels/lastofbreed.htm Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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. I love LL books. Have you read his biography "Education of a Wandering Man" ? The man lead quite an interesting life, didn't he? If he says there is a water hole in such and such county in a certain place, you can bet he has been there and seen it. Last of the Breed is a good story too. http://www.louislamour.com/novels/lastofbreed.htm Last of the Breed was his best IMO. |
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