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Novels FReepers Love (discussion)
April 4, 2004
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Posted on 04/04/2004 2:59:39 PM PDT by Long Cut
Over at THIS THREAD, discussing Tom Clancy's movies, one FReeper lamented the lack of threads discussing books we all might like, like Clancy's, or those of Clive Cussler, Matt Reilly, Patrick Robinson...The list is almost endless, as writers with a conservative tilt have long produced works that appeal to a wide audience of Americans, not just conservatives.
So, ever willing to help out, herewith such a thread. I'm not totally motivated by altruism here, as I am working on my first book right now, and opinions matter to me. Also, I love discussing my favorite works. I started reading at the tender age of four, and kept most of the books I read starting with Treasure Island. I married an English Lit major, and even today I attempt to consume as many books as possible.
What say you , FReepers? Let's chew on some books, shall we?
TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: books; literature; novels; technothrillers
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To: blackie
Thank you my friend...I'm busily working on Volume V.
To: Poohbah
I liked Coonts' first few books, but after
Final Flight they sort of lost their spark. Seemed to be getting formulaic, and for God's sake, when does Jake Grafton ever retire? He has to have been in for nearly forty years, now!
There's only so many situations you can plausibly involve a Navy Admiral in!
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:10:52 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(Hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have)
To: Long Cut
Then make sure to read Wilke Collins - Moonstone, Woman in White, No Name... Truly wonderful classic mystery/detective novels - some say the original. : )
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:13:27 PM PDT
by
Trinity_Tx
(Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
To: Poohbah
Since hearing there was a movie coming out, I picked up a copy of Clancy's "Without Remorse".
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:14:20 PM PDT
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: Long Cut
"I've read it, and I have the DVD starring Antonio Banderas."
Yep. I love the movie too. It's just not one of my wife's favorite.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:16:16 PM PDT
by
writer33
(The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
To: Jeff Head; Travis McGee; Poohbah; archy; writer33; All
I've settled on a title for mine...
Wild goose Chase. The title comes from the scene of a lot of the action, an old Soldier's and Sailor's bar which is actually a front for a crew of professional mercenaries.
The owner's son, who is a modern, sort of straight-laced 3-piece suit guy working for a modern security company, has to come to his rough-and-tumble old man and his cronies when he gets a particularly difficult assignment. His dad, whom he is estranged from because he doesn't like that kind of "dirty" business, has to then bail him out of a serious jam.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:16:37 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(Hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have)
To: Long Cut
Anyone else like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel? Its one of my favorite nonfictions. On the fiction front Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons by Roberta Gellis. Its not what you think.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:18:40 PM PDT
by
Talking_Mouse
(Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just... Thomas Jefferson)
To: writer33
Hell, my wife loves it. I think she's just got a thing for tall, blond, blue-eyed Vikings.
Whatever, the character of Bulwiyf is one heck of an a$$-kicker in that one, and I can't think of any man worth the name wo will fail to be moved by the ending.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:19:51 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(Hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have)
To: Pukin Dog
"Without Remorse" is one of my very favorite Clancy novels... gets pretty intense at some points, but it is a great story. Especially for us Clark fans. : )
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:19:59 PM PDT
by
Trinity_Tx
(Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
To: Long Cut
I'll look for it. I didn't really like her vampire series, but I loved Servant of the Bones.
Even tho I had to be talked into buying it and let it sit on the shelf til i was desperate, lol. It turned out to be one of my favorites.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:24:09 PM PDT
by
Trinity_Tx
(Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
To: Long Cut; Jeff Head
I'll read it. It sounds like something I would enjoy. My husband and I are reading Jeff Head's books right now and they are very good.
To: Long Cut
Sounds interesting and should be recognizable and interesting to many people given the visibility to this type of thing from the recent tragic events in Fallujah.
To: Trinity_Tx
The Witching Hour takes place in the same "world" that the Vampire books do, but the Vampires don't make an appearance in it.
Rice only recently merged the two storylines, in Blackwood farm and more finally in Blood Canticle, which is actually the final book in both series.
Witching Hour actually has two sequels, Lasher and Taltos, which, after reading the end to Witching Hour, you'll want to read.
All her character's arcs are allegedly closed out for good in Blood Canticle. She wants to move on to other things, now that she's spent so many years with vampires and witches.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:30:57 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(Hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have)
To: Jeff Head
Those events actually inspired a change or two. i first wanted the son to be a CIA officer, but then I got to liking the idea of a contrast between the "modern" concept of a merc as an employee of a security corporation vs. the "old school" Dog Of War represented by the father.
I'm also going to toss in some humor as well. anyone who's been in the military for a while will tell you that there's no shortage of things to laugh at, and I like that style.
I absolutely devour books by guys like Carl Hiassen and Tim Dorsey for that reason...cutting, black humor runs throughout their work. it's like soice on the cake, to me.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:35:27 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(Hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have)
To: RightWingMama
One caution about
The Witching Hour...for about the first hundred pages, you'll be wondering what's going on, despite a feeling of growing dread. Once she starts telling the history of the Mayfair Family, you will not be able to put it down.
You'll love the hero, Mike Curry, and you'll be really intrigued by the heroine, Rowan Mayfair.
And I GUARANTEE you won't see what's coming.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:39:30 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(Hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have)
To: Long Cut
Actually, he just retired at the end of the last novel.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:46:17 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
To: Long Cut
<- Slapping myself in the forehead, lol. I did read that entire trilogy. lol I just think of it as the Mayfair Witches trilogy and forgot the title of the first book.
And yes, it was very good.
I was told a few nights ago that she wrote another like Servant... I cannot recall the name now, but it was one word and started with an R... the only thing I see at Amazon that sounds even close, though, is The Mummy or Ramses the Damned...?
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:55:54 PM PDT
by
Trinity_Tx
(Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
To: Tribune7
True enough, but a full length novel needs a little more to stand on. If that's the message, Kipling said it better:
CITIES and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Times eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth,
The Cities rise again. This seasons Daffodil,
She never hears,
What change, what chance, what chill,
Cut down last years;
But with bold countenance,
And knowledge small,
Esteems her seven days continuance,
To be perpetual.
So Time that is oer-kind,
To all that be,
Ordains us een as blind,
As bold as she:
That in our very death,
And burial sure,
Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith,
See how our works endure!
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:56:30 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: Long Cut
Is it a stand-alone or part of a series?
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:57:04 PM PDT
by
stands2reason
( During the cola wars, France was occupied by Pepsi for six months.)
To: Long Cut
Being cursed by Christ on Golgotha apparently ain'tno joke. Just ask Ahasuerus.
Interesting how Mel Gibson treated Longinus in The Passion.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:58:26 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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