Winter Reading?

[ZigZagZeke]

What are some of your best reads ever? Doesn't matter what genre. List one or a few and add at least a genre for each, like this:

The Godfather (trilogy) - Fiction, gangsters
-Michael Corleone goes from young war hero to mafia kingpin.

Brules (trilogy) - Fiction, historical western adventure
-The adventures of Brules, a young cattle drover turned indian fighter, who hunts buffalo and grizzlies, scouts for general Crook, and lives life on his own terms.

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[Stomper]

The latest exciting read I just completed was the 194-page service and operation manual for a 175-ton York YLAA series chiller with scroll compressors, and air-cooled micro-channel condenser.


Now THAT is some good readin' right there!!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Life in the Far West... George Ruxton
Western novel , written in 1848 , based on Ruxton's travels through the American Southwest in 1846-47
It is the "Granddaddy" Mountain Man Novels

Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail... Lewis Garrard
Garrard's travel narrative down the Santa Fe Trail 1846-47

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings... J.R.R. Tolkien
If these books need an introduction to you...then we can't be friends anymore...

Hawken Rifles , the Mountain Man's Choice and 15 Years in the Hawken Lode... John Baird
Studies of the history of the Hawken Rifle and the men who used them

The Hawken Rifle its place in History...
The Plains Rifle...
The Northwest Gun...
All by Charles Hanson
These books all detail some famous guns of the old west.

I could go on and on...as books are a passion of mine...
Andy

 

[skeetshtr]

Like Andy said the Hobbit/ Lord of the ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
One flew over the Cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey
The river Why? by David James Duncan
Or anything by William Kent Kruger,C.J. Box, Lee Childs, Zane Grey,Nick Jans and on and on.
Very few things I like more than good book!

 

[mrblond]

this, mind blowing to be honest.

 

[ColeInOregon]

Not sure why but I have never read this, so now I will.

 

[Tarawa86]

Early Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler novels.

 

[rick benjamin]

The Grey May - J. L. Curtiss

 

[ZigZagZeke]

Life in the Far West... George Ruxton
Western novel , written in 1848 , based on Ruxton's travels through the American Southwest in 1846-47
It is the "Granddaddy" Mountain Man Novels

Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail... Lewis Garrard
Garrard's travel narrative down the Santa Fe Trail 1846-47

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings... J.R.R. Tolkien
If these books need an introduction to you...then we can't be friends anymore...

Hawken Rifles , the Mountain Man's Choice and 15 Years in the Hawken Lode... John Baird
Studies of the history of the Hawken Rifle and the men who used them

The Hawken Rifle its place in History...
The Plains Rifle...
The Northwest Gun...
All by Charles Hanson
These books all detail some famous guns of the old west.

I could go on and on...as books are a passion of mine...
Andy

My wife and I are Tolkien geeks. I could once recite the entire elven genealogy.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

Like Andy said the Hobbit/ Lord of the ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
One flew over the Cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey
The river Why? by David James Duncan
Or anything by William Kent Kruger,C.J. Box, Lee Childs, Zane Grey,Nick Jans and on and on.
Very few things I like more than good book!

My wife keeps nagging me to read The river Why? I'll do it someday soon.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

Early Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler novels.

I have every Tom Clancy book that he actually wrote.

 

[dangerranger60]

My latest is a series By Paul Doiron , it starts with The Poachers Son. About a Maine Game Warden.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

Life in the Far West... George Ruxton
Western novel , written in 1848 , based on Ruxton's travels through the American Southwest in 1846-47
It is the "Granddaddy" Mountain Man Novels

Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail... Lewis Garrard
Garrard's travel narrative down the Santa Fe Trail 1846-47

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings... J.R.R. Tolkien
If these books need an introduction to you...then we can't be friends anymore...

Hawken Rifles , the Mountain Man's Choice and 15 Years in the Hawken Lode... John Baird
Studies of the history of the Hawken Rifle and the men who used them

The Hawken Rifle its place in History...
The Plains Rifle...
The Northwest Gun...
All by Charles Hanson
These books all detail some famous guns of the old west.

I could go on and on...as books are a passion of mine...
Andy

I'll bet you would love "Brules". It was written by a guy named Harry Combs, who seems to have spent his whole life in the Lone Cone Mt. area in SW Colorado, in the 4 corners area, which is where much of his story takes place. He writes about places he's actually been to, and things that he's actually done. In the first book Brules goes from being a cattle drover to indian fighting, to a hunter/trapper. In the second book, "The Scout", he hires on with the US Army and scouts for General Crook during the Little Big Horn days. The third book, "The Legend of the Painted Horse", Brules lives out the rest of his life near Lone Cone Mt. It's one of those books (series) you just can't put down. It's all historically accurate down to the smallest detail from what I can tell. I've looked up some of the people and time frames mentioned and they are all right there where they should be.

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[skeetshtr]

My wife keeps nagging me to read The river Why? I'll do it someday soon.

If you Read the River Why? and like it than I would also recommend The Brothers K by the same author. Both books may have you in tears laughing and have some unforgettable characters.

 

[skeetshtr]

My wife and I are Tolkien geeks. I could once recite the entire elven genealogy.

Very rarely watch the same movie twice but have read the four books in the Hobbit series seven or eight times and the River Why ? three or four times.

 

[scrandall01215]

John Grisham - The Partner I think it's his best novel
Stacy

 

[USMC-03]

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings... J.R.R. Tolkien
If these books need an introduction to you...then we can't be friends anymore...

I wrote an article a couple of years ago detailing some of the that had influenced my life in a significant way. Tolkien's works were among them.

I believe that to become a good writer, one must first read good writing. Tolkien is one of the finest examples of writing, use of language and story telling I've ever been exposed to.

 

[P7M13]

Still reading:
Unintended Consequences - John Ross

Light Reading:
Jack Reacher series
Joe Pickett series by CJ Box

Books that never get old, each time I pick them up.
Any Hemingway
Ulysses by James Joyce -- it amazes me how he could get inside the head of people like he did at 36
Dubliners & Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also.
Waterland by Graham Swift for its style of prose

I always thought Tom Bombadil was Tolkein's identity in his works, just as John Clark was for Tom Clancy.

My latest is a series By Paul Doiron , it starts with The Poachers Son. About a Maine Game Warden.

See above, Joe Pickett series by CJ Box, a Wyoming game warden.

 

[gmerkt]

Oh, I thought we were talking about what we are reading now that Winter has set in. Anyway, here's what I've read this past week:

Pleiku - The Dawn of Helicopter Warfare in Vietnam, by J.D. Coleman. 1988. Predates Hal Moore and Joe Galloway's book by many years.

Misfire - The Tragic Failure of the M16 in Vietnam, by Bob Orkand and Lyman Duryea, 2019. As a history student and reloader, I wanted to read this. Unfortunately, the authors say the same thing over and over again. They could've cut 100 pages out of this book by avoiding repetition.

White Water - Red Hot Lead, by Dan Daly, 2017. Biography by an officer who commanded a Swift Boat in Vietnam. I'm always just a little leery of smallish publishing houses that specialize in military subjects, like Stackpole and in this case, Casemate Publishers. In other words, books no major publishing house would touch. This one was okay, kinda disorganized with sections inserted that were written by other people. When I come to those and read a couple of pages, I have to backtrack and reorient myself to the previous material.

Night School, by Lee Child, 2016. Pure old male thriller fiction, just for fun, kinda like.., er, never mind. One of the Jack Reacher ("Jack Creature") stories. I normally don't like the contemporary mass male fiction writers, like Robert Ludlum, Ken Follett, WEB Griffin, et al. But I have to give Lee Child credit for great attention to detail.

In my pile for this coming week:

The Savage Shore, by Graham Seal, 2016. As the sub-title says, Extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery. Sea-faring stuff.

438 Days, by Jonathan Franklin, 2015. Which also has a sub-title, An extraordinary true story of survival at sea.

Cat Shaming, by Pedro Andrade. This is just a goofy little picture book depicting cats in funny or strange poses, with hand-written caption signs inserted by their owners.

 

[Jonnyuma]

Bill O'Reilly's "Killing" series.

Historical but not dense. Written as third-person novels but are nonfiction.

I've finished Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy... almost done with Killing Reagan.

I have Killing the SS ready to go next.