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Dang... No one even mentions Louis L'Amour. Shame,shame,shame.
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Dang... No one even mentions Louis L'Amour. Shame,shame,shame. Polite, but total, disagreement.
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"The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. Account of a Wehrmacht soldier fighting on the Eastern Front in WW II. My 45+ year old copy is finally falling apart. Can't tell you how many times I have read it during that time. Bought it when I was 14.
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"The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. Account of a Wehrmacht soldier fighting on the Eastern Front in WW II. My 45+ year old copy is finally falling apart. Can't tell you how many times I have read it during that time. Bought it when I was 14. I've got it on the shelf downstairs; been a long time since I read it last. Now I have to add it to the list of stacked up books I need to get to.
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A number of great books mentioned... I recommend Shogun... great book!
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The Clash Of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Huntington seems more prescient w/ every reading.
The Revenge of Geography by R.D. Kaplan, The books he draws from will support any bibliophiles addictions.
Alaska's Wolf Man by Reardon keeps getting read about once/year.
I have the DaVinci notebooks on my phone and Ipad will probably never finish them.
You can download books for free from our county library.
I can't imagine how limited life would seem w/out books.
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Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that.
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Re read all of Hemingway's works, He's about the only one I'll re-read. I particularly enjoy the authors of the turn of the last century, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Anderson, and Hem are some of my favorite.
Be Polite , Be Professional , but have a plan to kill everybody you meet
-General James Mattis United States Marine Corps
Nothing is darker than a mau mau's moo moo.
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almost done with 7th read of the Bible (KJ), I probably read a little from it 350-360 days per year.
I have read "The Healing Woods" by Martha Reben several times.
Also "The Silence of the North" by Olive Fredericksen.
Nice short read, :The Alaska Adventures of a Norwegian Cheechako" by Harald Eide.
Several of Jim Rearden's books, too.
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Catch 22 ~ From Here To Eternity ~ Catcher In The Rye,
and a lot of stuff that I first read long ago.
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Anything by Tom Wolf, John Steinbeck or William Faulkner. RIP
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Sheep And Sheep Hunting - Jack O'Connor
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223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
24hourcampfire.com - The site where there is a problem for every solution.
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Death in the Long Grass - Peter Capstick
Cold Sassy Tree - Olive M Burns
A Walk In The Woods - Bill Bryson
"Harold and the Purple Crayon" Crockett Johnson
Scotland: The Story of a Nation - Magnus Magnusson
The Legend of Pierre Bottineau and the Red River Trail
- Ted Stone (Pierre was my great great great grandfather)
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Agree on most that have been mentioned. I'll throw out a few others. Gordon mcquarrie, jules vern, pat McManus and mark Twain. Particularly a Connecticut in king Arthur's court. I've read that one probably 20 times. Best story ever written.
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Elmer Keith, 'Hell I was There'
Louis Lamour
Life is but the memories we've created.....Sully Erna
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I've read Stephen King's "The Stand" a couple of times already. I think it's one of his better stories and it's timely right now. I might pull it off the shelves and read it again.
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"The Year-Long Day" by A.E. Maxwell and Ivar Ruud. It tells of Ruud's adventures living in The Arctic. His experiences with Polar Bears will make your hair fall out.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. --H. L. Mencken www.oregonfirearms.org
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A number of great books mentioned... I recommend Shogun... great book! James Clavell has. Number of good reads, I’d add Taipan and King Rat to this list. I reread DUNE every ten years or so.
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The Walking Drum by L’amour
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Hell I was there by Keith
And just about any Capstick book
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