Favorite Books!

[PBK]

Whoa there pardner, don't you like any living authors? LOL

Ahem...

Ray Bradbury is still in the present tense, isn't he?

 

[TreasureTales]

I read dead people.



And yes PBK I do believe Bradbury is still with us.

TreasureTales is kicking toe in sand--embarrassed--looking down, and sheepishly says "SORRY, my mistake." Bradbury was born in 1920 and I just ASSUMED he had passed by now. My apologies to diggitdoggie, PBK, and most especially...Mr. Bradbury. LOL

 

[EDDE]

H.P. Lovecraft
George Orwell

 

[OldBillinUT]

Old diaries and journals sometimes a collection of letters. Lately reading explorers / fur trappers of the 1800s in the Rockies along with some Civil war period stuff of the same types. They are sprinkled with clues and their hardships make my own life seem so effortless by comparison. Anyone that thinks they have a rough routine should know what it was like back in the good old days.

 

[EDDE]

Old diaries and journals sometimes a collection of letters. Lately reading explorers / fur trappers of the 1800s in the Rockies along with some Civil war period stuff of the same types. They are sprinkled with clues and their hardships make my own life seem so effortless by comparison. Anyone that thinks they have a rough routine should know what it was like back in the good old days.

i agree 8)

 

[Rave]

Dracula by Bram Stoker
anything by Anne Rice
Anna Karenina
any D H Lawrence
Magician by Raymond E Feist
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Bill Bryson
Wuthering Heights
Down & Out in Paris & London, George Orwell
Graham Greene


& many more...............

 

[TreasureTales]

Rave, pardon my obvious ignorance, please, but would you tell me who is Graham Greene? There was a First Peoples actor from Canada named Graham Greene who played a major part in Dances With Wolves, the Kevin Koster movie. Are they the same guy? Thanks!

 

[Jeffro]

Daniel Keyes
The Merry Prankster-Ken Kesey
Jack London
Hemingway
HP Lovecraft
EA Poe
Q. David Bowers
Ruby El Hult
Ralph Friedman
Mark Twain

 

[Rave]

Rave, pardon my obvious ignorance, please, but would you tell me who is Graham Greene? There was a First Peoples actor from Canada named Graham Greene who played a major part in Dances With Wolves, the Kevin Koster movie. Are they the same guy? Thanks!

that's Ok.....no this Graham Greene was an author, try his books sometime, classic reading. "The Power & the Glory" is particularly good & I think "The Quiet American" was made into a film

http://members.tripod.com/~greeneland/bio.htm

 

[TreasureTales]

Rave, pardon my obvious ignorance, please, but would you tell me who is Graham Greene? There was a First Peoples actor from Canada named Graham Greene who played a major part in Dances With Wolves, the Kevin Koster movie. Are they the same guy? Thanks!

that's Ok.....no this Graham Greene was an author, try his books sometime, classic reading.

http://members.tripod.com/~greeneland/bio.htm

Thank you for the info. Alas, Mr. Greene was a tormented youth, much like myself. The pity of it all.

 

[Rave]

oops, just read what it said about "The Quiet American" & would like to point out that I've neither watched or read it & am most definitely NOT anti American

 

[TreasureTales]

He disliked Ronald Reagan - my favorite 20th century President. I guess I won't be reading Mr. Greene's books afterall. Sheesh, it's tough being an American these days. Nary a friend in sight.

 

[AnOldPro]

Surprised to see no one seems to have mentioned any books pertaining to the Civil War with all the relic hunters we have on TNET. Hmmm.... maybe I'm the only relic hunter that can read....

If you only read ONE book on the Civil War I HIGHLY RECOMMEND the one entitled, COMPANY AYTCH.... A Sideshow To The Big Show by Sam R. Watkins.

Sam enlisted in the Confederate Army in Maury County Tennessee and fought all through the whole war in many of the major campaigns and battles. He was wounded six times and after being one of the very few Maury County soldiers to return from the war alive and marrying his childhood sweetheart he found himself increasingly debilitated by his old wounds and finally wrote his memoirs of the war and sold them to support his family in his declining years (Yeah... I know... run-on sentence ). We can all be thankful he did so... he was a GIFTED writer who with no training painted a picture of the Civil War from the viewpoint of the enlisted Confederate soldier that is second to none in my opinion. Sam tells it all from the humorous to the tragic. I just wish I could have had the privilege of shaking his hand and thanking him for one of the greatest reads of my life... (and I have read ten thousands of books!). He is the only author that I have ever made a pilgrimage to visit his grave out of my respect for what he gave us.

DC

 

[N.J.THer]

I love the classics but out of living authors I would say anything from Clive Cussler and Wilbur Smith.

 

[Tabfry]

First and formost, the Bible. I also enjoy writings by Frank Peretti, Norm Willis and Roy Hession.

 

[Monty]

Catch 22, read it several times and LMAO every time. Most of Michner's works, Centenial the favorite. Civil War narratives by Foote. Old books about big game hunting in Africa such as The Maneaters of Tsavo. Same kind of books by Corbett. Books written by WWII flyers, not fictional. Some westerns for light reading, mainly about early west, mountain men, etc. That's about it. My sister-in-law thought she was doing me a favor and picked me up some westerns from a used book store. One of them was a western porno the likes of which I have never seen. I still kid her about that. I let her read a few passages and she turned red! Monty

 

[N.J.THer]

Monty,
If you have not done so already you should try some of Wilbur Smith's novels. He writes about Africa with a few great series about different families but one stand alone book I think you would like is Elephant Song. Smith's books are all fiction so if you perfer nonfiction read the Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway. It reads like a diary of one of his big game hunts in Africa.

HR (Happy Reading)

NJ

 

[Monty]

Thanks for the tip. I haven't read Hemingway, but I read the Diary and subsequent book by Teddy Roosevelt. Monty

 

[Yarrum]

All of;

Wilbur Smith
Clive Cussler
Robert Jordan (wheel of time series)
Any war histories.

 

[StickShift]

I've read so many books in my life I don't know where to start.
My favorite author is
Edward Rowe Snow. I have a couple by him. Next would be,
Howard Pyle.
Paul Corey, Shad Haul.
Care of Game Meat and Trophies.
How to Barter.
The old man and the Boy.
The old man and the Sea, Hemingway.
Finding and buying your place in the country, Les Scher.
Trees for the yard, orchard, and Woodlot.
Successful Berry growing.
Missions of the Civil War.
Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake.
True Tales of Buried Treasure.
The Book of Buried Treasure.
Buried Treasures of the South.
Tales Gales and Hurricanes.
Ghost tales.
Haunted Houses.
Foxfire books, Have 3.
Twain,
London,
Mitchner.
And of course the Holy Bible,
Just to name a few favorites.
All the Libraries I visit do not have Cussler or Karl Von Mueller.
StickShift