Book thread

[Timothy]

Swoop...too bad I didn't know of your King addiction.  I just rid myself of titles (hardcovers) dating back to The Shining, all first edition.  Countless once read novels from the master went to a local charity book fair.  I just couldn't justify carting them around another twenty years.

[SwoopSJ]

Yeah, I'm a confessed Kingophile, although my condition has improved over the last few years.  I have almost all of his books, mostly hardcovers, but not many first editions.  (Can't believe you got rid of those...$$$)  The "Dark Tower" series is my favorite collection of fiction, period.  I mean, how many fictional heroes can  really compete with the coolness factor of a gunslinger like Roland?

Swoop

 

[PegLeg45]

Yeah, I'm a confessed Kingophile, although my condition has improved over the last few years.  I have almost all of his books, mostly hardcovers, but not many first editions.  (Can't believe you got rid of those...$$$)  The "Dark Tower" series is my favorite collection of non-fiction novels, period.  I mean, how many fictional heroes can  really compete with the coolness factor of a gunslinger like Roland?

Swoop

Excellent series....my #2 series, right behind the Lonesome Dove books by Larry McMurtry.

[tfr270]

Yeah, The Road was a tough read. I didn't like the writing style at all but the story was good for me.

With the Pacific on HBO I found the books that a couple of characters wrote. With the Old Breed and A Helmet For My Pillow. Very good in my opinion and much better than the mini series.

The Green Zone was another hard read but interesting. About the Green Zone in Bagdad and all the politics that went on in the first year after the occupation started.

Political books...Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin was a good read. I couldn't finish Hannity's new book. Just lost interest half way and didn't pick it up again.     

[tombogan03884]

"Killer Angles"?
Angels maybe?  

Blame that on my spell check, properly spelled wrong words don't get caught  
Killer Angels  is Historical fiction, along with "Gods and Generals" it tells the story of the Civil War (The war of Southern intransigence   )  up to the battle of Gettysburg.

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[PegLeg45]

Blame that on my spell check, properly spelled wrong words don't get caught  
Killer Angels  is Historical fiction, along with "Gods and Generals" it tells the story of the Civil War (The war of Southern intransigence   )  up to the battle of Gettysburg.

Killer Angels is the only one of his books I've read, but plan on reading more.

[tombogan03884]

And the movies were as good as the books. They caught the "character of the men perfectly. Jeff's Father Micheal Shaara wrote one of them but you can not tell which. Jeff also wrote "Gone for Soldiers" which tells the story of the Mexican war through the eyes, mostly, of a young Lieutenant of Engineers named Robert E. Lee.

Stephan Hunter more or less goes with out saying in this crowd  

[PegLeg45]

And the movies were as good as the books. They caught the "character of the men perfectly. Jeff's Father Micheal Shaara wrote one of them but you can not tell which. Jeff also wrote "Gone for Soldiers" which tells the story of the Mexican war through the eyes, mostly, of a young Lieutenant of Engineers named Robert E. Lee.

Stephan Hunter more or less goes with out saying in this crowd  

Yes.
One of the things about Gettysburg I liked was where they showed the actual images of the original people along side the images of the movie characters. There were a lot of similarities in looks. That was cool.

[GASPASSERDELUXE]

THE ROAD, for all those who read the book the movie version is on tonight on SHOWTIME 8PM eastern.

[tombogan03884]

Just saw Swoops mention of "Arundel", by Kenneth Roberts,  He wrote several others about the French and Indian War/ Revolutionary War era's, Rabble in Arms and Northwest Passage were both real good, especially since all three of them involve places right around me    He also wrote several about the Revolution and War of 1812 at sea, "Lydia Bailey" is the only one of those titles I remember .
Can't think of the titles but Alan Ekert wrote a series of books about that era as well though his tend to take place in upstate NY and the Ohio river country  (IIRC "The Frontiersmen" was the first of the series)
I finished the Jeff Shaara book, and went on to read "Steel Wave", about WWII. niether of them were as good as his Civil war books.
For Sword and Sorcery buffs look in the used book stores for the original "Thieves World" series.
They are collections of short stories by several authors all set in the same place, a dying city that is considered the anus of a decaying Empire, In the Dragon Lance series the thieves and scoundrel were charming rogues, in thieves world they are scumbags, even the so called "good guys" are not people you would invite to dinner  
Anything by Jack Higgins, ("The Eagle has landed" is his best known )
The earlier works of Leon Uris," Battle Cry" is a classic of the Marines in WWII, based on his own experience, "Trinity" and "Redemption" are about the troubles in Northern Ireland. He also wrote several about the Jews and Israel , "Exodus" comes to mind and I can see "Mila 18" on the book shelf which is about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.