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What fun to read through all these wonderful remembrances and recall so many of them. Thanks to all.
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
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The Hardy Boys books
also Nancy Drew
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Man this is a rough one I went through some Louie Lamar.... Patrick McManus... and those fur fish& game old old books they used to publish... don't read much anymore I use Audible I have them read to me that way I don't have to hold a book that I'm going to drop in my face Vince Foster's books is what I've been going through lately
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Reading is like breathing for me. It is necessary for life. I am usually reading 3-5 books at a time, oftentimes more. Asking me which is my favorite is akin to asking which is my favorite breath - my next one!
“My horn is full and my pouch is stocked with ball and patch. There is a new, sharp flint in my lock and my rifle and I are ready. It is sighted true and my eyes can still aim.”
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Robert Ruark,
The Old Man and The Boy
The Old Man’s Boy Grows Older.
Good judgment comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement! 🥴
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Death in the Long Grass by Peter Capstick. It inspired me to make 2 safaris to Africa, with my son.
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The trilogy on Winston Churchill by William Manchester A great one--The Last Lion. I only have read the third volume (1940-65) more than once, but it is sooo informative, vivid, and well-written. Of course, the subject matter (Churchill) couldn't be better too.
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I can't name just one. I have read these more than others.
"The Book of Five Rings" Miyamoto Musashi
"The Jungle" Upton Sinclair,
"1984" George Orwell,
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All of Douglas Jones books, Elmer Kelton is another favorite. Empire of the Summer Moon,
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Best book depends. Madam Bovary is considered the perfect novel by some experts. It's great. Joseph Conrad for sure; Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. Hemingway and Steinbeck are so accessible it's easy to under rate them. Same with LeCarre as for expressing the human struggle within an engaging tale. Riddle of the Sands started a whole genre, is superb. Anthem by Ayn Rand and The Revolution Was, a small tract by Garet Garrett, explains how communist totalitarians took over America through FDR, but nobody noticed. Endurance by Alfred Lansing is brilliant telling of the most heroic true story imaginable, Shakleton's failed expedition to the South Pole. Then there's Dostoyevsky, but I couldn't wade through it.
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mercy, i forgot the old man and the sea ...
a river runs through it
to kill a mockingbird
the martian chronicles
fahrenheit 451
1984
animal farm
dreiser's An American Tragedy
dune
brave new world
where the crawdads ing
and THE book: The Bible
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abiding in Him,
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The HOLY BIBLE. - Sherwood
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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I think Momma and I have read each of Piers Anthony's 23 books in the Xanth series.
Can not really be considered serious literature, but it is good entertainment. Puns galore, usually several giggles per page.
A map of the "Magic Land of Xanth" looks suspiciously like Florida.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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J F Coopers The Leatherstocking tales was a early favorite.
Always loved to read. My mom the school teacher made sure of that.
When I moved after the disastrous evil #2 episode I donated 12 boxes of books to good will.
Just didn't have room for them at the next place.
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I wouldn’t say “best” but damn good (to me) are:
1. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
2. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
3. Lone Star
4. Comanches: The History of a People
5. Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico
6. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
7. Into Thin Air
8. The Climb Nice list. The Comanches and Into Thin Air are excellent.
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Best overall: "The Stand" --- Stephen King.
Scariest overall (make a grown a$$ man, get all weirded out): "IT" --- Stephen King.
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"They Fought Alone: A True Story of A Modern American Hero". I've read it maybe a half dozen times - a page turner the likes of which Hollywood could never make up. A tale of "bucking the system", perseverance, ingenuity, and downright bravery after refusing to surrender to the Japanese in the Philippines, 1942-1944. A stirring example of humans overcoming diversity in the face of true oppression - perhaps applicable here today or in the future.....
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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. A stirring example of humans overcoming diversity in the face of true oppression - perhaps applicable here today or in the future..... The way you put it, that's appropriate today more than ever.
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I will add,
Clan of the Cave Bear( Auel sp?)
Alaska ( Mitchener)
Campfires in the Canadian Rockies( Hornady)
The latter was written in 1905 or so about a location that I hunt now, the trailhead is 20 minutes from my door. I use it as reference and often carry it with me .
I am a Bible reader, and have numerous from Catholic to Cowboy. Read scripture most everyday After a conversation with Jean Auel, she is a nut case to me. Clan of the Cave Bear
"Only Christ is the fullness of God's revelation."
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