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Read any good books lately?
Sorry guys, I'm bored with the forums. It's not just the pelican forums either, the shooting, dirt bike, boating, racing forums have all lost their lustre.
 I'm thinking about kicking it old school and reading some books... The last book I read was 'The Martian' when I was in the hospital and traveling - I enjoyed it. It had been years since I read my last novel. Does anyone have any suggestions on books I might like? I used to read Tom Clancy, Michener, Pierre Burton, and some other authors I can't recall... Farley Mowatt maybe. 
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History buff?
Inside the Third Reich, Memoirs by Albert Speer. I recently read a book in German about mountain biking the Alps... But I don't think that would be your style.
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11-23-2015, 08:40 PM
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Reading a book in German might be interesting, trouble is that this whole WW2 thing caused grandpa to not want to teach my dad any German. This is from back in the days when immigrants assimilated into their new cultures (including changing the spelling of our last name to make it 'less German')... Sadly I can't read German apart from the usual important words such as Zundefolge
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11-23-2015, 08:45 PM
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Oh, man - too many to name. The :Walt Longmire" series by Craig Johnson, anything by Robert Crais, anything by Philip Kerr, anything by Thomas Perry and so much more.
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Least you didn't tell everyone you're from Sweden.
Actually it's kinda weird you mention that. I had a discussion about this in German lecture earlier.
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Just finished "To Kill a Mocking Bird". I don't remember reading this before but I really enjoyed it.
Finished "The Stranger" by Albert Camus last week and reading "The Meursault Investigation". I am having a hard time grinding through the repetitiveness of the "TMI". Kind of TMI over and over again. It is fantastic for inducing sleep though.... If you are looking for more Canadian content, consider Joseph Boyden's "Three Day Road" and Through Black Spruce". In the order listed, a third book is said to be in progress to round out this trilogy. Very enjoyable reading.
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Nelson DeMille's Up Country if you looking for something in the action/adventure genre - with a little humor thrown in.
Nelson DeMille - Up Country
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my next book. need to grab it up before all my airport adventures this week. i heard it was excellent. the day Kennedy was assassinated and someone is sent back in time to stop it. my kind of book!!
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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
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Have you read any of Mark Berent? If you like Clancy you will like his stuff. Set back in the late 60s. Dale Brown is, interesting, sometimes.
Airframe was a decent book by Michael Crichton.
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11-24-2015, 09:14 AM
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John Cleese's recent bio is out in paperback. Quick and enjoyable read.
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As for suggestions: any of Michael Connelly's books (action / mystery), anything by Elizabeth George (ditto), and +1 on Nelson DeMille. Last edited by Rinty; 11-25-2015 at 01:08 PM.. |
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Armada by Ernest Kline.
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11-25-2015, 06:10 PM
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Thanks for the input guys... I'm going to buy something this weekend and will report back once I have read one of the suggestions.
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The Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva is excellent. The later ones are the best espionage books I've ever read.
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Baldacci's Will Robie books are fun reads
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I finished reading the whole series by Frederick Forsyth who most know from his books "Day of the Jackal" and "Odessa File"which were made into movies. The others he wrote are even better and seem to be 90% real and 10% fiction added in?
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"Crossing to Safety", "Angle of Repose" both by Wallace Stegner. "Devil in the White City"
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I just read the Dune "prequel" books.
They start with the wars against the machines, set 10,000 years before dune. It gives the history behind all the different familiar groups in Dune. The second set is the direct prequel, the run up to Dune, starting about 40-50 years before. They develop most of the familiar characters and give you a "birth story" of the different characters. They are not as good as the whole regular Dune series, but they are interesting. There are some slight inconsistencies with the character histories and their Dune characters.
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11-27-2015, 11:09 AM
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Also, I like the "Dresden files" books. I pretty much "binge read" them a couple of years back.
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