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Posted: 11/8/2016 4:59:43 PM EDT

Looking for a few good ones to read. GO!

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:00:38 PM EDT

[#1]

Cryptonomicon

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:01:20 PM EDT

[#2]

No Country For Old Men
Blood Meridian

Really, pretty much anything by Cormac McCarthy.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:01:35 PM EDT

[#3]

Probably The Count of Monte Cristo.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:01:48 PM EDT

[#4]

The Stand or Red Storm Rising.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:01:55 PM EDT

[#5]

a boy and his dog.. by Harlan Ellison

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:03:00 PM EDT

[#6]

Sarcasm aside, holy balls did Nabokov write some beautiful prose.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:03:01 PM EDT

[#7]

Dune

Without Remorse

Blood Meridian

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:03:55 PM EDT

[#8]

The Stand, Unabridged version

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:03:58 PM EDT

[#9]

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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.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:04:12 PM EDT

[#10]

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:04:22 PM EDT

[#11]

To Kill a Mockingbird

Moby Dick

Giant by Edna Ferber (Texas cattle and oil)

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:04:43 PM EDT

[#12]

the Diamond Age

Snow Crash

Shogun

the Source

Atlas Shrugged

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:05:00 PM EDT

[#13]

A few posts above already listed a few of mine.

Cryptonomicon

Count of Monte Cristo

Also,

Brothers Karamazov

Anathem

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:05:50 PM EDT

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Hard to top that, but as a 2nd I'd go with the Black Company trilogy (The Black Company, Shadows Linger, & The White Rose) by Glen Cook. Can be found in one volume. The Silver Spike is volume 3.1 and is great, too.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:06:32 PM EDT

[#15]

Atlas Shrugged
LOTR trilogy

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:06:35 PM EDT

[#16]

Red Storm Rising
Rainbow Six
World War Z
The Last Centurion

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:07:56 PM EDT

[#17]

Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:07:57 PM EDT

[#18]

Killer Angels

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:08:24 PM EDT

[#19]

Hyperion

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:08:36 PM EDT

[#20]

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:08:38 PM EDT

[#21]

FPNI. Great book.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:08:44 PM EDT

[#22]

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The Stand, Unabridged version

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Posted: 11/8/2016 5:08:46 PM EDT

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Sarcasm aside, holy balls did Nabokov write some beautiful prose.

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Hard to pick a "favorite" novel, but that book is certainly a masterpiece.

And to think English (in which the book was written) wasn't his native language...

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:09:00 PM EDT

[#24]

Lights Out

David Crawford

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:09:03 PM EDT

[#25]

Lord of the Rings

I've lost count of how many times I've read it in the past 40 years.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:09:15 PM EDT

[#26]

Hammer's Slammers

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:09:28 PM EDT

[#27]

Anything by Stephen Hunter in his Bob Lee Swager series of novels.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:09:40 PM EDT

[#28]

Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:10:34 PM EDT

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That is an all time great.

I think I do prefer Without Remorse though. It's like The Punisher, but real.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:11:16 PM EDT

[#30]

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.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:12:25 PM EDT

[#31]

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Probably The Count of Monte Cristo.

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Came

to post this.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:12:47 PM EDT

[#32]

Another vote for Dune. Shame no one has made a good movie of it that stayed true to the books.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:12:48 PM EDT

[#33]

Another here for Red Storm Rising!

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:12:57 PM EDT

[#34]

Hmm, tough one. Red Storm Rising, or Lonesome Dove.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:13:11 PM EDT

[#35]

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

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:13:30 PM EDT

[#36]

Red Storm Rising

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:14:03 PM EDT

[#37]

Red Storm Rising

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:14:12 PM EDT

[#38]

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/

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:14:18 PM EDT

[#39]

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

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:14:24 PM EDT

[#40]

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.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:14:46 PM EDT

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Came to post this.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:15:40 PM EDT

[#42]

"Shibumi" by Trevanian

"Count of Monte Cristo"

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:15:47 PM EDT

[#43]

A Tale of Two Cities.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:15:59 PM EDT

[#44]

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FPNI like a boss

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:17:36 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?"

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:17:44 PM EDT

[#46]

Warbound - Corriea

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:18:11 PM EDT

[#47]

Awesome so many replies for Red Storm Rising. I'd add Charm School and Plum Island.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:18:27 PM EDT

[#48]

The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:19:18 PM EDT

[#49]

The Stand by Stephen King. Was some abortive miniseries out on it too, but the book was eleventy billion times better.

Posted: 11/8/2016 5:19:24 PM EDT

[#50]

Les Mis. By far.

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