Posted on 11/28/2015 10:20:40 AM PST by SamAdams76
Here are the ones I wrote. ;)
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The Haj by Leon Uris
The Virginian by Owen Wister
2 great books
Read THE LAST FARMER by Howard Kohn. Read to the end. A great understanding of the German work ethic that formed the Midwest and a certain political family
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Charles Murray.
“Unintended Consequences” by John Ross.
It is definitely time to start feeding the hogs.
Neptune’s Inferno
Mouthful of Rocks
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Kafka’s Short Stories
Catch-22
Chimera
Day of Wrath, a novella by William R. Forstchen
Have you read Radical Son by Horowitz? It’s in my top ten best memoir-type books.
I don’t read new books, they’re mostly terrible I’ve found. It takes years to sift the wheat from the chaff and life’s too short to read a bad book when there’s so many good ones out there.
I’m really loving all Patrick Lee’s books. They’re suspense with a little paranormal. Can’t put ‘em down.
And last but not least, almost always, if a book is really really popular, it will suck. Take “The Goldfinch” for example. It won a Pulitzer Prize and it had to be the most gawd-awful dreck I’ve ever tried to read. Seriously, I think whoever wrote it was on drugs; you know, those prescription drugs they have out there that make you boring as hell? I think they’re called psychotropic. In fact, stay away from Pulitzer Prize-winning books period.
David Liss, start with “A Conspiracy of Paper”. Fascinating.
THE SUM OF GOOD GOVERNMENT by Phil Crane
CANCER WARD by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
BONHOEFFER by Eric Metaxas
I’M FRANK HAMER by H. Gordon Frost
These are just a few I’ve re-thumbed recently that are part of the multitude that could be added to the list.
This one reads as downright prescient.
And you cannot beat the price on Kindle.
Confederates in the attic
Black Flags, The Rise of ISIS, by Joby Warrick
*BUMP* for later. Great topic. I’m a major reader; I’m never without a book or two going at once. Love, Love, LOVE to read.
(Thanks, Mom!)
Anything by Harry Turtledove, especially Guns of the South.
And if you're in to this sort of thing:
And if you're not, you oughta be! ;-)
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A reminder that I need to get on the ball, and back into the swing of writing.
Anything by Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead”, “Atlas Shrugged”, at least, and then toss in “The Virtue of Selfishness”.
Grew up on Heinlein and Asimov, Phillip K Dick, and others.
H. Ryder Haggard, “She” and “Return of She” were great. The “Quartermain” stuff is pretty good.
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