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Posted on 5/31/15 at 8:11 pm to LanierSpots
Posted on 5/31/15 at 8:11 pm to LanierSpots
I'm beginning "The Bone Tree" by Greg Iles right now. I enjoyed Natchez Burning and this has been a solid page turner thus far.
Posted on 5/31/15 at 8:16 pm to CatFan81
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I just started the 2nd book. I've never read a book that made me laugh out loud like I have with this series.
Posted on 5/31/15 at 8:29 pm to CatFan81
Currently reading : Shut up catfan by Vols&Shaft83
Posted on 5/31/15 at 9:21 pm to CatFan81
Fair Blows the Wind - Louis L'Amour. I'm liking it a lot so far.
I finished The Walking Drum by him a few weeks ago and was interested in more of his non-western works. Along with a very fun story that one in particular give some nice insight into the islamic influence of 11th and 12th century europe which is something that I think gets neglected in most classrooms.
I finished The Walking Drum by him a few weeks ago and was interested in more of his non-western works. Along with a very fun story that one in particular give some nice insight into the islamic influence of 11th and 12th century europe which is something that I think gets neglected in most classrooms.
This post was edited on 5/31/15 at 9:24 pm
Posted on 5/31/15 at 9:51 pm to CatFan81
Give Harry Turtledove's alternate histories a shot. Start with The Guns of the South. Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle is awesome, too.
Posted on 5/31/15 at 9:59 pm to AubieALUMdvm
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Fair Blows the Wind - Louis L'Amour. I'm liking it a lot so far.
I finished The Walking Drum by him a few weeks ago and was interested in more of his non-western works. Along with a very fun story that one in particular give some nice insight into the islamic influence of 11th and 12th century europe which is something that I think gets neglected in most classrooms.
He did his research into the places and times he wrote about. He also lived a rambling and colorful life. It was his gift of painting pictures with words that got me into reading.
Posted on 6/1/15 at 12:15 am to Agforlife
I dont know why I didnt say this before. My son's first name is one I've wanted to use for years because of a Louis novel. My son will be Ronan, after Ronan Chantry, when he gets in here in Sept.
He, as no other man ever has, lived what he wrote. He traveled the globe, was a boxer, cowboy, taught to fast draw by a legend, was a sailor...etc. The List is incredible.
You can't really go wrong with Louis. I don't love his boxing stories, but they were written for a different era. They are still excellently written, subject matter doesnt appeal to me though.
He certainly helped me. Though my grandmother and mother were excellent teachers(Gam had a masters from UA in education), they had me reading by 3, books by 4, Great Illustrated Classics at 5. I remember reading Tom Sawyer from front to back. Starting that young really develops the imagination. That, and limiting television. Which I will do to my son.
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Smoke From This Alter will always be kept where I can read it regularly.
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Faintly, along the shadowed shores of night
I saw a wilderness of stars that flamed
And fluttered as they climbed or sank, and shamed
The crouching dark with shyly twinkling light;
I saw them there, odd fragments quaintly bright,
And wondered at their presence there unclaimed,
That faded slow, like hope's arrested flight.
Or vanished suddenly, like futile fears- -
And some were old and worn like precious things
That youth preserves against encroaching years- -
Some disappeared like songs that no man sings,
But one remained- an ember in the dark-
I crouched alone, and blew upon the spark.
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He did his research into the places and times he wrote about. He also lived a rambling and colorful life.
He, as no other man ever has, lived what he wrote. He traveled the globe, was a boxer, cowboy, taught to fast draw by a legend, was a sailor...etc. The List is incredible.
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Fair Blows the Wind
You can't really go wrong with Louis. I don't love his boxing stories, but they were written for a different era. They are still excellently written, subject matter doesnt appeal to me though.
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It was his gift of painting pictures with words that got me into reading.
He certainly helped me. Though my grandmother and mother were excellent teachers(Gam had a masters from UA in education), they had me reading by 3, books by 4, Great Illustrated Classics at 5. I remember reading Tom Sawyer from front to back. Starting that young really develops the imagination. That, and limiting television. Which I will do to my son.
This post was edited on 6/1/15 at 12:17 am
Posted on 6/1/15 at 6:21 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Blood Meridian is a great book.
It's more than a great book. It is one of the few books in our nation's history that reaches the sublime.
Easily as remarkable as Moby Dick. The prose is absolutely amazing and elevating.
We're of a similar mind, and I think it is better than Moby Dick. I'll say it, Blood Meridian is the best work by arguably the best author of my life.
Posted on 6/1/15 at 3:43 pm to CatFan81
The Impending Crisis - America Before the Civil War 1848-1861 by David Potter.
This post was edited on 6/1/15 at 3:45 pm
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:11 pm to LewDawg
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Jurassic park
Doesn't get enough credit.. One of the best works of fiction ever written imo.
I'm reading Next right now... It's really good... I need to read The Andromeda Strain.
This post was edited on 6/2/15 at 9:17 pm
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:18 pm to VaBamaMan
I picked up Son of a Wanted Man from somewhere when I was 6 or 7 and I couldn't get enough, I soon discovered he had written more books and my reading for fun career took off, I never would have discovered Lawrence Sanders, Gregory McDonald, Jack London, or countless others had it not been for that book.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 10:04 pm to CatFan81
Jorge Luis Borges. His collected works. Definitely not to everyone's taste, but if he's to your taste, he's quite literally one of the greatest writers ever.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 12:23 am to CatFan81
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Historic or at least loosly based on histoty.
The Bible?
Posted on 6/3/15 at 3:59 am to CatFan81
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Very interesting read.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 9:07 am to CatFan81
Currently on A Dance With Dragons (book 5 of A song of Ice and Fire(Game of Thrones))
Posted on 6/3/15 at 9:21 am to CatFan81
Probably won't be interested up there in KY.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 9:26 am to Masterag
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The name of the wind
That series is the cat's meow. Kvothe is my homeboy.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 9:32 am to CatFan81
Not currently reading non-fiction, as I'm reading the new star wars comics that are out.
I did finish a pretty interesting book earlier this year though, Legacy of ashes: history of the CIA. pretty decent if you like that sort of stuff.
I did finish a pretty interesting book earlier this year though, Legacy of ashes: history of the CIA. pretty decent if you like that sort of stuff.
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