Book thread

[fightingquaker13]

Try
"Dreaming the Lion" by Tom MacIntyre.
Its a truly beautiful book. Its a series of essays about hunting. Everything from Africa to Oz, to California. Thing is, these are great essays written from the '80s to the '90s and remind you of Hemmingway. They are all beutifully written and talk about culture as much as anything. Talking about commercial buffalo hunters in Oz, the end of the hunting culture in the US, a kid whose dad sent him to Africa to shape up, etc. Its well worth the read.

I'd also throw in a great scifi book "An Enemy of the State' by F. Paul Wilson. Its a great Libertarian scifi tale about politics, economics and insurrection. It is is scarily more precient than when I read it in high school (it deals with rebellion based on attacks on a worthless paper currency, dimunition of individual rights, and an over extended empire). There are three books in the series titled something like "The Lanague Foundation", but they really are a great adventure and a total indictment of where we are now. I'd put it up there with Heinlien.
FQ13  

[PegLeg45]

Got this one for Christmas and have been looking through it. Looks like a good book for history buffs (like me). Good for short reading intervals because of the 500+ pages, no more than two pages are dedicated to each topic.

Great amounts of trivia..... I guess like the title says, it's great for reading in the 'throne room'....   

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251709-the-civil-war-bathroom-reader

[Teresa Heilevang]

Just  this evening .. finished reading Patrica Cornwell's newest one.. Book Of The Dead.
 It was ok.. not riveting like some of her books.. got better the last half..

Don't know what I will read next.. but will start another book tonight.. 

[tombogan03884]

Started H.W. McBride, "A rifleman went to war" I'm 1/4 of the way through it already. "The Emma Gee's" should arrive tomorrow  

[m25operator]

Tom, you will be entertained at the the least.

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[mortdooley]

 I started reading the Steven King  Gunslinger series when they first came out but he lost me after a long break between books and then jumped to the childhood of his character. Currently I am reading "Assassin" by Steven Coonts and "Broke" by Glenn Beck.

[Ksail101]

I read Pillars of the Earth and just finished it about a month ago. This is a great read if anyone is ever interested in 12th century England. I love Ken Follett books. I have read all his spy thrillers, my typical genre of choice, and took a chance with this book. It mixes great history with fiction. I don't want to give away too much but, England is in shambles when King Henry dies and his heir is killed in a boat "accident." It all revolves around the building of a cathedral and really does a great job of mixing and showing a monarchy at its worst how from the littlest to biggest ripple up top can change the lives of everyone from Peasant to Earl.

After reading this book I was kinda just on the monarchy thing, and read George RR Martins Game of Thrones. Great book as well. Not as good as Pillars but its a different Genre, but definately is great.

And an old bool that I just thought about that everyone needs to read if they never have is the Bourne Identity. The original book by Robert Ludlum is out of this world awesome. The guy is insane and trained. I loved it. Its almost a book I want to by hundreds of copies of and hand out to liberals and say f with vets some more and one day our training will take over and this is whats going to happen to you. He beats the crap of the lady he takes hostage and doesnt become nice to her till almost the end of the book. Its no where close to the movies version. It was a book that got me into reading a few years ago now. I hardly ever read till I got clean and sober and I wonder now how I ever got by. I love reading and most days rather read than watch tv.

[tombogan03884]

The first 3 Bourne novels are great !
Best lines in the whole series  (Bourne on phone) "There was a girl in Paris, she handled logistics."
                                          (CIA guy)"I'm not sure I know who you mean"
                                          (Bourne ) "You should, she's standing beside you. "
The ones after that were written by others and the ones I've read were not as good.
Clive Cussler, and Jack Higgins are both entertaining writers as well.

[Timothy]

I read the Bourne (Ludlum) series as well when they first came out, gotta be thirty years ago.  Back then, I'd burn through 8-10 novels a month.  Haven't read a book in a while now.

[tombogan03884]

Has any one read the Bernard Cornwall series about Richard Sharpe ? I'm half way through the first one and it's pretty slow going. Should I quit now, or do they get better ?