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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
Non-fiction: "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey" by Candice Millard
61 posted on 02/05/2010 9:51:11 AM PST by The Duke
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To: 4yearlurker

Cool! I’ll have to check those Corbett books & the others out.


62 posted on 02/05/2010 9:51:58 AM PST by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: MtnClimber

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...


63 posted on 02/05/2010 9:53:58 AM PST by stefanbatory (Weed out the RINOs! Sign the pledge. conservativepledge.org)
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To: Lakeshark

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.


64 posted on 02/05/2010 9:55:25 AM PST by hellbender
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To: haywoodwebb

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.


65 posted on 02/05/2010 9:57:55 AM PST by MtnClimber (Be a Patriot, contribute to Free Republic today!)
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To: Gordon Pym

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!


66 posted on 02/05/2010 9:59:01 AM PST by gardengirl
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To: MtnClimber
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. A man and his son who survive some unnamed catastrophe which leaves the world burned-out and devoid of civilization must battle against cannibals and starvation. Also All the Pretty Horses, Cities of the Plain, and The Crossing by the same author.
67 posted on 02/05/2010 10:00:26 AM PST by hellbender
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To: MtnClimber

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


68 posted on 02/05/2010 10:01:08 AM PST by gardengirl
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To: Lakeshark

That's Ernest, not Edmond. Perhaps the greatest example of leadership ever.

69 posted on 02/05/2010 10:02:16 AM PST by stormer
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To: hellbender

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.


70 posted on 02/05/2010 10:02:45 AM PST by MtnClimber (Be a Patriot, contribute to Free Republic today!)
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To: stormer
Oops.

I am hereby giving an earnest apology............

71 posted on 02/05/2010 10:05:09 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: gardengirl

Thank you! It is really interesting to see what people liked. I will add some to my long list too.


72 posted on 02/05/2010 10:08:20 AM PST by MtnClimber (Be a Patriot, contribute to Free Republic today!)
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To: william clark

Oh Yeah - I read all of the "2nd Generation" of Tom Swift books. I have a copy of this one. Priceless.

73 posted on 02/05/2010 10:09:27 AM PST by corkoman
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To: MtnClimber

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.


74 posted on 02/05/2010 10:11:22 AM PST by gardengirl
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To: gardengirl

I have not read either. I feel so illiterate!


75 posted on 02/05/2010 10:14:06 AM PST by MtnClimber (Be a Patriot, contribute to Free Republic today!)
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To: MtnClimber

“Bring Em Back Alive” : Frank Buck.


76 posted on 02/05/2010 10:19:31 AM PST by Stentor
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To: Lakeshark

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”!


77 posted on 02/05/2010 10:19:40 AM PST by 21twelve (Having the Democrats in control is like a never-ending game of Calvin ball. (Giotto))
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To: fish hawk

and the prequel and sequel to Lonesome Dove were great!!


78 posted on 02/05/2010 10:22:56 AM PST by ronniesgal ( I miss George Bush. Hell, I miss Bill Clinton!!)
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To: MtnClimber

Homer’s Odyssey: translation by Fitzgerald

Fell in love with it in High School. Has been read to all my children in their cribs.


79 posted on 02/05/2010 10:24:06 AM PST by TarponTom (They called it golf because all the other four letter words were used)
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To: MtnClimber

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!


80 posted on 02/05/2010 10:26:15 AM PST by gardengirl
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