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I read 200+ books a year. Have done that most of my life. Sometimes more, sometimes fewer. I read a mix of fiction and non fiction. A lot of science, history and travel/adventure for the non fiction. I go where my interests lead me, often down a dang rabbit hole. lol
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14 of the books, and add six if you count watching the movies they inspired!
I’m not much of a fiction reader, other than Michener, but Steinbeck and Hemingway were required reading in jr high. And What male kid never read “Treasure Island”?😀
All told, I’ll probably read 2 or 3 dozen books in a year’s time, easily.
I don’t watch anything but old movies, and I enjoy reading American History.
I’ve read “Atlas Shrugged”, but I rather thought it dragged. “1984” and others of HG Wells I really liked though.
Reon So sorry you confused Michner with being a writer... Easiest "No" on worthy books, ever! Michner is not much of a writer.
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That "Book List for Men" is no good, I didn't see:
Good Friends, Good Guns, Good Whiskey OR Hoglegs, Hipshots & Jalepenos by Skeeter Skelton
and I didn't see ANYTHING by Finn Aagaard, John "Pondoro" Taylor or WDM "Karamojo" Bell.
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14 of the books, and add six if you count watching the movies they inspired!
I’m not much of a fiction reader, other than Michener, but Steinbeck and Hemingway were required reading in jr high. And What male kid never read “Treasure Island”?😀
All told, I’ll probably read 2 or 3 dozen books in a year’s time, easily.
I don’t watch anything but old movies, and I enjoy reading American History.
I’ve read “Atlas Shrugged”, but I rather thought it dragged. “1984” and others of HG Wells I really liked though.
Reon So sorry you confused Michner with being a writer... Easiest "No" on worthy books, ever! Michner is not much of a writer. Worked for him in a very minor manner when he lived in Swarthmore. Noticed that, before long, he seemed to rely on a process utilizing a writing "team" for the massive research/fact-finding that went into the product. To me, not a singular author.
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God Bless anybody on the Campfire who has read "Ulysses".
Sycamore Can't say that there is any blessing in having read it, but the tasks of overall comprehension and understanding might bring some.
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14 of the books, and add six if you count watching the movies they inspired!
I’m not much of a fiction reader, other than Michener, but Steinbeck and Hemingway were required reading in jr high. And What male kid never read “Treasure Island”?😀
All told, I’ll probably read 2 or 3 dozen books in a year’s time, easily.
I don’t watch anything but old movies, and I enjoy reading American History.
I’ve read “Atlas Shrugged”, but I rather thought it dragged. “1984” and others of HG Wells I really liked though.
Reon So sorry you confused Michner with being a writer... Easiest "No" on worthy books, ever! Michner is not much of a writer. Worked for him in a very minor manner when he lived in Swarthmore. Noticed that, before long, he seemed to rely on a process utilizing a writing "team" for the massive research/fact-finding that went into the product. To me, not a singular author. Michner's written one book everyone should read, "Poland". The next few of his I tried to read didn't measure up.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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Two Tom Clancy books should be on the list, "Hunt for Red October", and "Red Storm Rising".
It also need some Robert Heinlein, and more Louis L'Amour on it.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Read most of them. Cannot agree as " Must Read" . A few I could not stay interested in.
However . these should be on the list :
in no particular order.
*The Bounty Trilogy
* War & Peace
*The Old Man & the Boy
*Horn of the Hunter
*Tortilla Flat
*1776
*African Game Trails
* River of Doubt
*Grey Seas Under
* No Mans River
* Mawsons ' Will
* The Story Of the Jennette ?
*The Crime of Galileo
* Beowulf
*Jack London( various)
* Mark Twain ( various)
* And No Birds Sang
*The Last Full Measure
*The Jungle
*A Higher Call
*The Historian
*Grouse Feathers
* A Sorrow in Your Heart
*Use Enough Gun
just a few...................
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The list doesn't seem to include Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - a clear omission.
"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
-S. M. Stirling
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The list doesn't seem to include Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - a clear omission. Just an FYI, it said "100 Books Every Man Should Read", not, "100 Books Every Bleeding Gash Should Read".
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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I've read maybe a quarter of them. Thanks for the bookmark!
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