That's Ernest, not Edmond. Perhaps the greatest example of leadership ever.
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.
Cool! I’ll have to check those Corbett books & the others out.
Poland by James Michener is very good and sort of an adventure book in the sense that Forrest Gump is an adventure film...
I am currently reading Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Ogiem i Mieczem for which he won the Nobel Prize in Literature back when winning that prize meant excellence...
I read a book about the Shackleton expedition; not sure if it was the one you name. Very impressive, but I was bothered that Shackleton excluded from his recommendation for honors his carpenter, whose work was absolutely crucial to the survival of the those who made it. The carpenter had disputes with S., including S’s command that all animals be killed, including the carpenter’s beloved cat.
The Leather Stocking Tales were not written in order. It would have been nice if the Nattie Bumpo character had the same name through the series.
I still adore a good children’s read, and love to write them—books I would have loved to have had when I was growing up!
Have you tried Inkheart yet? The first one is the best of the series. The Percy Jackson series is fantastic. I have a young teen niece and we keep each other current. :)
WE didn’t have a boxcar, but we had lots of gullies everyone threw their trash in to stop erosion. We had lots of fun pretending!
Thanks, MtnClimber! For bringing back lots of good memories and giving me books to add to my already impossibly long list! So many books, so little time! LOL
That's Ernest, not Edmond. Perhaps the greatest example of leadership ever.
I met Jon Krakauer at an “Everest” slide show by David Breashears at the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver. I pulled a copy of Krakauer’s book off the shelf and got him to autograph it. I payed for the book after the slide show was over. Many famous climbers come through here doing slide shows or book signings including people like Sir Edmund Hillary.
I am hereby giving an earnest apology............
Thank you! It is really interesting to see what people liked. I will add some to my long list too.
Oh Yeah - I read all of the "2nd Generation" of Tom Swift books. I have a copy of this one. Priceless.
Did you like the Louis L’Mor one set in Siberia? That was cool, and I was so disappointed to hear that LL had died before he finished the sequel! Ever read Walking Drum? That was excellent too.
I have not read either. I feel so illiterate!
“Bring Em Back Alive” : Frank Buck.
Lots of great books - I too loved the Endurance.
I finally read “Robinson Crusoe” last year. I was surprised how great it was. I guess there is a reason why they are called “classics”!
and the prequel and sequel to Lonesome Dove were great!!
Homer’s Odyssey: translation by Fitzgerald
Fell in love with it in High School. Has been read to all my children in their cribs.
My parents read alot, and my daddy’s family are voracious readers. They were alwasy trading big paper grocery sacks of books back and forth. They liked alot of LL, Heinlen, Asimov,.... Who was the woman sci-fi writer with the man’s name? Read alot of her stuff about dragons and new worlds, etc.
Illiterate—me too, laughing as I read these posts and realize how many books I HAVEN’T read!
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