Tiger: I am not a big fiction reader, but am always looking for good books to add to my queue. If you could recommend 3 books, what would they be?
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Tiger: I am not a big fiction reader, but am always looking for good books to add to my queue. If you could recommend 3 books, what would they be?
My personal 3 favourites are right off the above list.
1) "No Time For Goodbye" by Linwood Barclay.
2) The Woods" by Harlan Coben
3) "Vengeance Road' by Rick Mofina
What 2 or 3 books would you recommend from your genre ?
1) "No Time For Goodbye" by Linwood Barclay.
2) The Woods" by Harlan Coben
3) "Vengeance Road' by Rick Mofina
What 2 or 3 books would you recommend from your genre ?
Thanks Tiger. I'd hit a dry spell with available books with favorite authors.. Going to pick these three up this week!
Great post.
I managed to finish Blood Meridian last year. Is The Road written in the same style?
That story was interesting enough but it was a very difficult read for me.
I keep hear about how good The Road is but the thought of another book like that makes me nervous.
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just started reading "Life among Apaches" by John Cremony. Really interesting book from 1868 !
John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett's boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance, particularly with the Apaches, whom he came to know as few white Americans before him had. Cremony's account of his experiences, published in 1868, quickly became, and remains today, a basic source on Apache beliefs, tribal life, and fighting tactics. Although its original purpose was to induce more effective military suppression of the Apaches, it has all the fast-paced action and excitement of a novel and the authenticity of an ethnographic and historical document. "Like most frontiersmen of the mid-nineteenth century, John C. Cremony looked on Indians as unredeemable savages. But he knew Apaches first hand and was a keen and highly literate observer. For all its ethnocentrism, his narrative remains unsurpassed for accuracy and vivid detail among contemporary views of the Apaches. In the literature of the American West, "Life Among the Apaches" endures as a classic." - Robert M. Utley.
After that i have Hearts of Darkness: European Exploration of Africa by FJ McLynn and Nikola Teslas biography and then about 15 books pile of history and philosophy books like "Cowboy methaphysics-Ethics and Death in Westerns" by Peter A. French...
wish i had enough time to read them, after reading one you need to read another related to the first to get the larger picture or other opinion about same matter.
John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett's boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance, particularly with the Apaches, whom he came to know as few white Americans before him had. Cremony's account of his experiences, published in 1868, quickly became, and remains today, a basic source on Apache beliefs, tribal life, and fighting tactics. Although its original purpose was to induce more effective military suppression of the Apaches, it has all the fast-paced action and excitement of a novel and the authenticity of an ethnographic and historical document. "Like most frontiersmen of the mid-nineteenth century, John C. Cremony looked on Indians as unredeemable savages. But he knew Apaches first hand and was a keen and highly literate observer. For all its ethnocentrism, his narrative remains unsurpassed for accuracy and vivid detail among contemporary views of the Apaches. In the literature of the American West, "Life Among the Apaches" endures as a classic." - Robert M. Utley.
After that i have Hearts of Darkness: European Exploration of Africa by FJ McLynn and Nikola Teslas biography and then about 15 books pile of history and philosophy books like "Cowboy methaphysics-Ethics and Death in Westerns" by Peter A. French...
wish i had enough time to read them, after reading one you need to read another related to the first to get the larger picture or other opinion about same matter.
Eating The Dinosaur, by Chuck Klosterman (reading this now, but I already know it is going to be one I highly recommend)
Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski
Outliers - The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
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I agree. That was brutal getting through Blood Meridian.
No thank you on a follow-up.
PA I haven't read Blood Meridian so I cant compare. The Road is a fairly fast read, albeit quite disturbing. I'm trying to figure out which book of his to take on next. Has anyone seen the movie?
I liked Blood MEridian and would suggest reading The Road.
Send me an email with your address and I'll send you my copy.
It is worth the read...
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I liked Blood MEridian and would suggest reading The Road.
Send me an email with your address and I'll send you my copy.
It is worth the read...
The story in BM is great! It was the only reason why I was able to get through the writing style.
Does he use the same writing style -- basically illiterate English? If so, I really appreciate the offer, but I don't think I could do it.
If not, I think it could be good because of his storytelling.
Finished "No Second Chance" by Harlan Coben last night. A man gets shot in the first sentence of the book, and when he wakes up from a coma 12 days later, he finds out his wife was shot dead and his 6 month old daughter is missing. Couldn't put it down.
Give it 4/5
Have now started "The Quickie" by James Patterson. Any Patterson fans out there? I know he has the "Alex Cross" detective series, but I wanted to try a stand alone book of his, before deciding whether to get into the Cross books........or not.
Give it 4/5
Have now started "The Quickie" by James Patterson. Any Patterson fans out there? I know he has the "Alex Cross" detective series, but I wanted to try a stand alone book of his, before deciding whether to get into the Cross books........or not.
I didn't read it, but listened to book on CD of "2nd Chance" ...thought it was really contrived and almost written to be a bad movie on Lifetime or TNT or something. I don't know if that's his usual style.
Yeah, I never understood why James Patterson was so liked. And yes, it's his usual style. No good.
I love Harlan Coben, though.
Good to see ya around, Tiger.
OK I'm on board with this reading stuff. I finally finished "Best and Brightest", by David Halberstan. It basically goes into excruciating detail of why the Vietnam War happened - focusing mostly on Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
Just ordered 'Beneath The Neon' by Matthew O'Brien. It's true accounts of people who live in storm channels under Las Vegas. Seems pretty crazy.
Just ordered 'Beneath The Neon' by Matthew O'Brien. It's true accounts of people who live in storm channels under Las Vegas. Seems pretty crazy.
I had another book on CD called "Book Of Lies" by Brad Meltzer. That one was pretty cool. They even spend some time in Cleveland - something I'm sure you would appreciate.
Cleveland notwithstanding, Brad Meltzer is pretty generic. He's ok, better than Patterson, but pretty run of the mill.
Well it makes sense then that both of those CD sets were handed to me by the same person. Maybe Book of Lies just seemed good because I had just struggled through the Patterson one.
BTW - I saw they were making a movie of your 'Beer in Hell' book.
Hey Matt. Thanks for the nice words. I never ever did leave.......have just lurked for quite a while now.
Which Coben books have you read?
Which Coben books have you read?
I read Meltzer's book of lies last summer in Gary's previous thread... Wasn't horrible, but too many other authors out there to read another one... :shrug:
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Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
5/5 Stars
This is going to be hard to knock out of the top spot. I think this is one of the most interesting books I have ever read. I really like to listen to smart people talk, and essentially, that's what this is.
Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
5/5 Stars
This is going to be hard to knock out of the top spot. I think this is one of the most interesting books I have ever read. I really like to listen to smart people talk, and essentially, that's what this is.
