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What are your Favorite Adventure Books?
MtnClimber
| February 5, 2010
| Vanity
Posted on 02/05/2010 8:42:20 AM PST by MtnClimber
Was just wondering what the favorite adventure novels are for Freepers out there. Fiction or non-fiction.
TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: adventure; adventurenovels; booklist; bookreview; books; fiction; nonfiction; novels; reading; readinglist
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
02/05/2010 2:27:27 PM PST
by
scottdeus12
(Jesus is real, whether you believe in Him or not.)
To: MtnClimber
Oh sure, I’m a John D. MacDonald fan. But I also like some others...off the top of my head, Stephen Hunter and Gerald Seymour (a brit). With both of them, their earlier stuff is best, and they are in every library.
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posted on
02/05/2010 4:44:54 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: real saxophonist
advanture = adventure. Can’t believe I missed that.
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posted on
02/05/2010 4:46:04 PM PST
by
real saxophonist
(The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
To: Travis McGee
Yes, Stephen Hunter. His nonfiction book ‘American Gunfight’ is great, though not really ‘adventure’.
Robert Leckie’s ‘Helmet For My Pillow’ is one of the inspirations for the upcoming series ‘The Pacific’. I also like his book ‘George Washington’s War’.
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posted on
02/05/2010 4:52:52 PM PST
by
real saxophonist
(The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
To: MtnClimber
Anything by Alistair Maclean.
Anything by Dale Brown.
To: MtnClimber

This is the first of a nine book series telling the story of the Marine Corps in WW II. It is wonderful adventure and history. For best results, read hem in order. The characters are in continuous development
The author is WEB Griffin and this series is a great introduction to many many others of his great books about great Americans and how they protect America from enemies.
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posted on
02/05/2010 5:02:00 PM PST
by
bert
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To: icwhatudo
Nightwings, Silverberg, I think.
To: T. P. Pole
108
posted on
02/05/2010 5:31:11 PM PST
by
icwhatudo
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To: hellbender
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. A man and his son ...Wasn't that actually "The Road"?
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posted on
02/05/2010 5:33:55 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Travis McGee
Any clues as to what is next after the EFAD series? I must say I was sad to see that series end.
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posted on
02/05/2010 10:05:49 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
I’m writing a new novel meant to be the first of a series. It’s also set in a socialist dystopia, but slightly different from the trilogy, and with all new characters and situations. Another change is that it’s written first person POV.
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posted on
02/06/2010 3:30:14 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: MtnClimber
Fiction:
H. Rider Haggard -- She, People of the Mist, Allan Quatermain, and King Solomon's Mines.
H. P. Lovecraft -- At the Mountains of Madness
William Morris -- The Well at the World's End
Edgar Rice Burroughs -- A Princess of Mars, Pirates of Venus, etc.
To: DuncanWaring
Aarrgh. You’re definitely right. I read most of McCarthy’s books one after another, and have trouble remembering which is which now.
To: hellbender
How’s “No Country for Old Men”?
(I started “The Road” this weekend).
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posted on
02/08/2010 8:10:17 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: MtnClimber
Fiction Titles
- Hound Dog Man/Fred Gipson (New York: Harper, 1947)--Politically incorrect coming-of-age novel about the adventures of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country.
- Captain Kidds Cat/Robert Lawson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1956)--A revisionist account of the adventures of Captain Kidd, told by his cat.
- We Were There at the Opening of the Atomic Era/James Munves. Illus. by Charles Brey. Historical consultant: John R. Dean. (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1960)--a young New Yorker witnesses the first chain reaction--part of the We Were There series from the 1950's and early 1960's.
- The Hundred and One Dalmations/Dodie Smith (New York: Viking, 1957)--Two dogs set out to rescue their puppies, who face a horrible fate after being kidnapped by humans.
- Hull Down for Action/Armstrong Sperry (New York: Doubleday, 1945)--Young sailors must use their wits to survive at sea and in the jungles of Guadalcanal after Nazi agents seize their sailing ship.
- Let the Hurricane Roar/Rose Wilder Lane (New York; David McKay, 1933)--With her husband away looking for work after a swarm of grasshoppers destroyed their crops, a young woman and her baby face the dangers of winter on the Western plains in the 1870's. The author also wrote the conservative classic The Discovery of Freedom (1943).
- Space Cat/Todd Ruthven. Illus. by Paul Galdone, (New York: Scribners, 1952)--A kitten accompanies the first astronaut to land on the moon and then must rescue him when he finds himself in danger.
- The Motor Boys or Chums Through Thick and Thin/Clarence Young. (New York: Cupper & Leon, 1906)--In this first book of the Motor Boys series, three teenage chums win a motorcycle race and solve a burglary.
- The Long Trains Roll/Stephen Meader (New York: Harcourt, 1944)--A teenage railroad worker in Pennsylvania tangles with a gang of Nazi saboteurs.
- Clear for Action/Stephen Meader (New York: Harcourt, 1940)--a young sailor from Maine is kidnapped and forced to serve aboard a British warship at the start of the War of 1812, then escapes and must find a way to survive on a desert island.
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