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"Plainsong" by Kent Haruf
And I'm not a fan of either Los Angeles, or it's police department, but about all of the "Harry Bosch" novels by Michael Connelly are good reads.
"Eleven Days" Donald Harstad
"Tunnel In The Sky", Heinlein
"The Windward Road" Archie Carr
"Chances Will Be Taken"
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Already been mentioned, but Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, and it isn’t even close for me…
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Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843 by Osborne Russell
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'Dune' by Frank Herbert is one of my fav's.
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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With the Old Breed - E.B. Sledge
Crazy Horse and Custer, Citizen Soldiers, Undaunted, etc - Stephen Abrose
Panther in the Sky - A. Thom
Fire Hunter - J. Kjelgaard
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I am the NorthEast WoodsBeast!
"System version 1.3, divorced"
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west of the hundredth meridian by wallace stegner
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The Last Honest Politician, by Joe Biden. Edited by Mike Obama.
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How Green Was My Valley
The Three Days
The Long Knife
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When did you take up smoking crack? I had thought much more of you lol Horrible!
MAGA
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UNDAUNTED COURAGE is a great book
If you find yourself in a hole....quit digging
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When did you take up smoking crack? I had thought much more of you lol Horrible! I think its a great book, top 5 for me. I was going to post it here also saw someone mention Confederacy of Dunces. Another favorite of mine.
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have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings
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Blood & Honor by Reinhold Kerstan. Has a sword on the front cover. It is about a kid that grew up in Germany around 1930. He got drafted into the war. He saw and experienced the propaganda of the 3rd Reich. You can get it on Amazon for about $7.00.
But the fruits of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, Gentleness and self control. Against such things there is no law. Galations 5: 22&23
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Read Mercy, by David Baldacci over the weekend.
While not the best book ever, it was an exceptionally fast paced, well written novel.
So much so, that done, in less than 2 days.
Paul.
"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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When did you take up smoking crack? I had thought much more of you lol Horrible! I think its a great book, top 5 for me. I was going to post it here also saw someone mention Confederacy of Dunces. Another favorite of mine. Blood Meridian has to be the best book ever written. Can’t believe it took ten pages to be mentioned. Reading A Confederacy of Dunces now actually, it’s excellent
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I’ve always been a reader, since I was a kid. Mom @ Dad read constantly, and we didn’t have cable.
I read a bunch of Louis LaMore Westerns, and I got older I started reading American History, particularly Civil War, with Gettysburg leading the way.
Since then, I’ve also gotten sorta infatuated with The Alamo and The Little BigHorn Battles.
I’ve read so many excellent books, that I’d be hard pressed to pick a favorite.
I love Bruce Catton’s “Army of the Potomac” trilogy, “Mister Lincoln’s Army, Glory Road, and A Stillness At ”Appomattox”.
I have said before that “Bruce Catton set the bar, but Shelby Foote raised it!
Shelby’s Trilogy of the War Between The States, a work that was supposed to be 250,000 words to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the war. But it became his passion, and ended up over 1.5 million words! The work of a lifetime!
I guess I’ve read it probably 6 times, and just started into it again.
So if I had to pick one, that’d be it.
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"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
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Some other favorites:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
For Whom the Bell tolls
The Sun Also Rises
Forrest Gump (unlike and ridiculously better than the movie)
Slaughterhouse Five
Catcher in the Rye
Heart of Darkness
Authors I love, hard to go wrong with:
Hemingway
McCarthy
Salinger
Vonnegut
Checkhov
Kate Chopin
Ray Bradbury
Chuck Klosterman
Hunter S. Thompson
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Lots of good ones above, one I did not see was "From Here to Eternity". Book is better than the movie.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
limits.- Albert Einstein
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Lots of good ones above, one I did not see was "From Here to Eternity". Book is better than the movie. Just about always the case.
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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