Posted on 11/22/2015 8:40:27 AM PST by vis a vis
It has been way too long since we had one of these....
Having said that in addition to Scanner I think Radio Free Albemuth is probably the closest and that wasn't one high up on my reread list.
My first exposure was a copy of Counter Clock World I picked up in a junk shop for a nickle. Was always keen on SF but just hadn't run into PKD before. I've been hooked ever since.
I have that book.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6405773-the-lonely-ships
The Lonely Ships: The Life and Death of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet
by Edwin P. Hoyt
Huh, and I just finished reading Tricky Twenty-Two and laughed myself silly. I find too many serious things to read on FR, so it’s pure pleasure or the Bible for me.
The Crossing by Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch goes to work for the Lincoln Lawyer. Hard to put down.
“The Tide at Sunrise,” a history of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5.
I think reading his stuff is what soured me on pretty much all other sci-fi. The last novels I read (1984-ish) was "Ringworld" and "Ringword Engineers", plus a few Star Trek novels (those were pretty awful, btw), and come to think of it, shortly thereafter, a couple of "Thieves' World", or maybe it was just one (those are or were short story collections by multiple authors). In the 1970s I was mostly reading sword and sorcery (into which category I'd include The Hobbit and LOTR, much to the dismay of many I'm sure; and a couple of other things marketed as trilogies, ER Eddison who was better at coming up with the book titles than actually writing the books, and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, which I never finished because it was so unforgivingly homogeneous), plus a little old-line sci-fi (ER Burroughs, Foundation trilogy, other Asimov short story collections; AE Van Vogt; Vonnegut, although he's not very sci-fi, is he?) followed by a Heavy Metal subscription, some Theodore Sturgeon, some PJ Farmer (himself a huge Burroughs fan), hmm, that's probably it.
Read them in published order as there are continuing story arcs within the series.
Killing Floor (1997)
Die Trying (1998)
Tripwire (1999)
Running Blind (2000)
Echo Burning (2001)
Without Fail (2002)
Persuader (2003)
The Enemy (2004)
One Shot (2005)
The Hard Way (2006)
Bad Luck And Trouble (2007)
Nothing To Lose (2008)
Gone Tomorrow (2009)
61 Hours (2010) Worth Dying For (2010)
The Affair (2011)
A Wanted Man (2012)
Never Go Back (2013)
Personal (2014)
Make Me (2015)
I thought I was the only one boring enough to have a library where these types of books are normal. My naval library has gotten quite extensive over the decades.
Thanks for jogging my curiosity. I think I’ll add that to my list.
Me too, though I don’t peruse them much any more. Lots of pics, specs, etc on the interweb makes such a library less useful. I probably have several hundred volumes of naval history, ww2, and so forth.
Do you have Oscar Parkes’ British Battleships?
Also, have you thought about what to do with all this stuff? I ain’t getting any younger, I would love to see my stuff go to some youngster who would appreciate it.
That is one of my headboard books, a small stash of books I keep to re-read when I can't sleep and don't feel like going to the library to find something new.
Currently reading Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
Btt
Anyone who sneers at science fiction doesn't know Dick.
Yes, but it was a bit pricey. As was Russian and Soviet Battleships.
Damn straight. LOL
William Forstchen Day Of Wrath
Yeah, it’s true, you want to be able to listen for a good while. I really need to get back on the audio book train myself because my commute is the road to hell itself, BOTH WAYS!
But, for future reference, and if you like this sort of thing, the Rumpole stories are great on audio books. Leo McKearn (sp?) who played Rumpole on TV reads them. And they are short stories so good for a shorter ride. I really enjoyed then a lot when I had about 1/2 hour commute years ago.
I am also reading “The Survivor” and agree with your assessment. I am only about 30% through it but I am really enjoying it. I have read all the other books in the series and it measures up.
I just finished re-reading “The Sum of All Fears” by Tom Clancy. What a great book if you like that genre. Clancy is still my favorite by far.
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