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Lonesome Dove Larry Mcmurtry
The Liberation Trilogy: Rick Atkinson
Army at Dawn
The Day of Battle
The Guns at Last Light
Undaunted Courage Steven Ambrose
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
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got another one , a series of short stories by Ed Hertfelder, " Duct Tapes" written in motorcycle magazines, Cycle, or Cycle World?, some of the same stuff I used to do on a bike, made me laugh till tears in my eyes.
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Blood Meridian is pretty incredible. I'd have to put it at the top.
For Whom the Bell Tolls has a lot of great stuff in it and extremely well written. You can't go wrong with Hemingway.
Hemingway also has some really fine short stories.
Hemingway is pegged as a misogynist but he's not any easier on men. Sometimes the truth hurts. There's a whole lot of truth in his writing, real people and real situations. Not saying he wasn't misogynist to some degree, but I think it's fair to say he's misunderstood with regards to his writing about women.
Nonfiction:
Undaunted Courage by Ambrose is just awesome. He puts the whole Lewis-Clark expedition in perspective; the history, the hardship, the importance, the toughness. I love history. I love biographies. This one is extremely well done.
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Junglebook
Call of the Wild
Old Yeller
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn, Damn, I bet my grandkids never get a chance to read Mark Twain in school. I will need to do something about that
Andromeda Strain, and also by Michael Chrighton: his translation of Beowolf....The Thirteenth Warrior
Run Silent Run Deep
Up Periscope
Torpedo Run
Failsafe
The entire Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy
There are just too many genres, and too many volumes
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People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Not one of the classics, or probably even well remembered... but I think for me it was "Shogun" by James Clavell.
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"Old longings nomadic leap chafing at custom's chain,
Again from the brumal sleep awakens the ferine strain"
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Lonesome Dove
Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy
Band of Brothers
Gates of Fire
Most by Hemingway
Just started With the Old Breed
Let's Go Brandon! FJB
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Letters to Penthouse
Vol 50
Riveting.
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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Lonesome Dove is hard to beat.
Unbroken was good but made me question my own makeup and capabilities a little too much.
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I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Just about to finish Hemingways for whom the bell tolls
First fiction I've read in some time now
Just can't seem to glean what all the fuss about Hemingway is about.
He seems to be a more interesting subject than what he actually wrote about
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Just about to finish Hemingways for whom the bell tolls
First fiction I've read in some time now
Just can't seem to glean what all the fuss about Hemingway is about.
He seems to be a more interesting subject than what he actually wrote about Why did the chicken cross the road? To die. In the rain. Alone.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
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Just about to finish Hemingways for whom the bell tolls
First fiction I've read in some time now
Just can't seem to glean what all the fuss about Hemingway is about.
He seems to be a more interesting subject than what he actually wrote about Why did the chicken cross the road? To die. In the rain. Alone. Hahaha that's great
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Last of the Breed by Louis L'amour
Osama and Obama both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.
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Too many to pick one. These and others. A lot of good writers out there.
Shadow Country, Peter Matthiessen. About a bad guy that people got tired of being afraid of. Some of it takes place in South Carolina and Oklahoma but most of it's in the 10,000 Island/Everglade country of SW Florida before and after 1900. It was originally three separate books with different titles.
Aubrey/Mautrin series, Patrick O'Brien.
Hornblower series, C. S. Forester.
The Third Bullet, Stephen Hunter. JFK Assassination.
Night Soldiers, Alan Furst. All others by him about politics, people and espionage in Europe and Russia before and during WW II.
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry.
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The Word of God
Nosler Reload Manual
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country."
Robert E. Lee
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For the classics, it's hard to beat Don Quixote and The Count of Monte Cristo
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy is one book I've read probably 5-6 times over the past 30 years.
The Man Eaters of Tsavo was terrifying; I couldn't put it down.
A Hunters Wanderings in Africa is the absolute best hunting book I've ever read.
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I have some books with short stories from Slovensko. They are similar to Grims fairy tails, with a moral story to be understood. To me these are meaningful. Thought and interpretation of life, not just existing. Very powerful cultural indoctrination.
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Elmore Leonard's Fire In The Hole is a great book of 'short stories'.
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