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I need a good book!
riverguide323
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hey all-
I need a good read...I'm spending too much time online! I like fiction or non-fiction. Like Adventure travel stories, Hunting tales, history of exploration, fur-trapper era stuff, nautical stories, etc..
Give me some titles, authors, storylines.
thanks-
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"Pure wildness is the one great want, both of men and of sheep (John Muir)."
"In Wilderness is the Preservation of the World (Thoreau)."
I need a good read...I'm spending too much time online! I like fiction or non-fiction. Like Adventure travel stories, Hunting tales, history of exploration, fur-trapper era stuff, nautical stories, etc..
Give me some titles, authors, storylines.
thanks-
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"Pure wildness is the one great want, both of men and of sheep (John Muir)."
"In Wilderness is the Preservation of the World (Thoreau)."
Comments
"Well i'll be a suck egg mule"...Arthur Hunnicutt.
Marine Sniper- the story of Carlos Hathcock
The biography and autobiography of Gregory "pappy" Boyington One's called Black Sheep one (biography) the other is Baa Baa Black Sheep (autobiography. I read the auto biography before the biography, and found if I could do it again I would have done it in the reverse order.
R/
Dave
How different the world would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. - Henry Miller
1.KILL EM' ALL AND LET ALLAH SORT EM' OUT!
2.NEVER WASTE MONEY ON SPRINGFIELD ARMORY!!
God Bless America and...
NEVER Forget WACO
NEVER, EVER Forget 911
Bad spellers of the world
"UNTIE!"
"Waiting tables is what you know, making cheese is what I know-lets stick with what we know!"
-Jimmy the cheese man
You won't be able to put it down, it's a historical novel. Not what you would expect from Lamour. It's set in the 1600's about a young man that lost his parents and is making his way alone.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0553280406/ref=sib_rdr_ex/102-7168915-9720918?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S004#reader-link
thanks for the idea of linking an exerpt ruger [:D]
He has also written
Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (Paperback)
Northwest Passage by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (Paperback)
The Lively Lady by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (Paperback)
Captain Caution by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (Paperback)
Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (Paperback)
Here is a link to Amazon where you can read some of it before you buy it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0892723645/qid=1070279402/sr=8-8/ref=sr_8_8/103-0690452-5036629?v=glance&n=507846
"Life is like standing beneath an incontinent camel, you never know when the snot is going to rain down!"
Half way through and it's a good one.
Genre is Nautical, action adventure, historical fiction, Cussler is a real life adventurer who finds shipwreaks and has written a couple of non-fiction works also.
...honor is important only when dealng with honorable men.
You asked if I have reverence? I have reverence for truth, but I do not know what truth is. I suspect there are many truths, and therefore, I suspect all who claim to have THE truth. L'Amour
For fiction, try re-reading some of the old Raymond Chandler classics, or perhaps some Dashiel Hammet.
Proud member of the NRA
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
Piers Anthony, Isle of Woman
John Steinbeck
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"Happiness is a warm gun." The Beatles
Remember Ruby Ridge.
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
The Unvanquished by Faulkner
Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions.
A Tale of Two Cities Dickens
The Three Musketeers Dumas ... Get a "good" translation, or it's sh*t.
G36
Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT CriminalsThe 2nd Amendment; America's Original Homeland Security
My heros have always killed cowboys.
Any of the Louis LaMour Sackett series books are good to read for westerns.
The man who listened to horses is also a very good book.
Mad Dog
His hero is flawed, but he knows that he is, and tries to be a better person anyway.
NOT light, fluffy reading. Big questions, and some answers, about good and evil.
Also, there's a novel called "The Butcher Boy" about a modern hit man that is a fun read. The author is exceptionally clever, though this is modern and more urban, rather than historical and woodsy.
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
Woods
It's better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.
by Paul R. Schratz
Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
by Eric L. Haney
The Right Thing
by Scott Waddle (Who at one time was my XO)
"Nobody could have imagined the extent of the retribution that the U.S. Submarines would eventually extract from Japan's imperial Navy. We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds, it is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they neverus in our days of great Peril." Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
http://www.adirondack-books.com/keith.html
Woods
It's better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.
If you try these and like them, e-mail me for more---
Dead Man's Walk
Both by Larry McMurtry. A little rough at times, but great westerns.
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell are good if you like a little social and political commentary.
Old and New Testaments are good.
I'll have to second Marine Sniper. Great book.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Anything by Jack London.
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell. (great movie, too) A little bit too much of a romance novel at times, but still good.
The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy
BTW, I'm a sort of an aspiring writer, dabbling when I get an idea. Maybe some day you can read one of my works. [;)][:)]
"Keep your eyes open, do your own thinking, and be your own man."
-Marshal Matt Dillon
Unintended Consequences by John Ross I think, one of the kids currently has my copy. Big book, but excellent.
spiny
'not all who wander are lost'
The Land That Time Forgot, which takes place during World War I, relates how Bowen Tyler assumes command of a captured German U-boat crewed by the survivors of an English tug and the German submariners. This command is undermined by sabotage and the ever-present danger that the Germans might try to retake their vessel. The saboteur secretly alters the U-boat's course at every opportunity until the underwater craft is far from all shipping lanes and deep into the waters of the south Pacific. Low on fuel with no chance to return to any port, the situation is grave. Rising out of the cold mists is Caprona and Bowen Tyler takes the submarine beneath the barrier wall through an subterranean river. When the submarine surfaces in the island's interior, they are afloat on a massive waterway teeming with a profusion of life that is mind-numbing.
Almost immediately they are set upon by huge reptilian creatures that have been extinct for millions of years in the outer world. It is a place where evolution has taken an odd turn. All kinds of bizarre and prehistoric animals abound, as well as aquatic monsters and gigantic flying reptiles. Curiously, however, as Tyler's group travels up the river to the opposite side of Caprona, they move into lands where the jungles become parklands and the fierce reptiles give way to predatory mammals and deer-like horses. The greater the distance of the mouth of the subterranean river, the more evolutionary advanced are the flora and fauna. Tyler's group eventually encounters apes, ape-like creatures, and man.
Jacqueline
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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants and the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt (1783)
The Russian guide that was on an adjoining group who became involved also has a book on the same subject. It's called "The Climb" by Anatoli Boukrev. A very "Russian" practical matter of fact viewpoint of the same struggle/tragedy.
Them ducks is wary.
CHORKIE
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I did not see his name yet. (maybe I missed it)
Anything he wrote, for pure entertainment.
Anyone ever read any of his stuff?
The gene pool needs chlorine.
No quotes, no fancy graphics, just me.
The Conquerors
The Frontiersman
The Wilderness War
Wilderness Empire
A Sorrow In our Heart, The Life of Tecumseh
Gateway to Empire
Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnee
The Courtmartial of Daniel Boone
Twiligt of Empire
Wilderness Empire
Wilderness Empire II
There are many more as well. He has written 56 in all with some being about his favorite hobby, opal hunting/collecting! Go to Amazon.com and check out his selection. I have several signed by him and I can buy them in paper back at 10% above cost! See any you like let me know and I will see what it costs me at the KY State Park where a member of my home works. Also check out an author names Dr. Thomas Clark if you love early American history.
God protect me from my friends, I can take care of my enemies...
Clouder..
Michener, except the last two.
Clouder..
You like Michener? I live in one of his home towns. They have a nice Michener museum, he spent a lot of time here.
You should come visit. Ill let you stay at my homestead, but you will have to stay in the dog house.
"Waiting tables is what you know, making cheese is what I know-lets stick with what we know!"
-Jimmy the cheese man
Michener is one of our best literary craftsman. Yeah, I like his work.
I wouldn't make you stay in the doghouse.
Clouder..
I havent read any Michener- a lot of people have told me to ggive him a look. What do you suggest as a first Michener novel to read?
"Waiting tables is what you know, making cheese is what I know-lets stick with what we know!"
-Jimmy the cheese man
Bonne Chasse![:D]
"The Source"
How 'bout a pillow?
Clouder..
spiny
'not all who wander are lost'