It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Entertainment => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on April 02, 2012, 10:18:14 AM
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I know what's a good book is subjective. I used to read mysteries but I've gotten bored with those--I always figure it out long before the end. Now I like thrillers or a story with action. I've read all of Thor and Flynn. I couldn't get into Eisler. I recently bought a Lee Child novel. I've read several Ludlum but not all yet (excellent for the long flight to Hawaii! I read fast but I only needed to carry one book for the flight.) Clancey doesn't do it for me. I read one book by Andrew Grant. It was ok.
I'd be interested in your suggestions.
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I'd be interested in your suggestions.
With my kids I have had the excuse or re-reading all of my old favorites at bedtime
LOTR
The Princess Bride
The Silent Gondoliers
Holes
Watership Down
Chronicles of Narnia
Ender's Game
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Also:
Anything by Phillip K. Dick.
Anything by Orson Scott Card.
Winter's Tale (Helprin)
Anything by Azimov ( INcluding the short stories - which include a number of Mysteries- maybe you can't guess by the end because they are only 20-40 pages long)
On a Pale Horse ( Anthony - read only the first in this series..)
On planes I have been Mr. Non-fiction
All of the Founders books at loa.org are worth the read, including the two volume set on the Constitutional Debates. (Also the Federalist)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Starving the Monkeys
Anything by Thomas Sowell
Anything by Eric Hoffer.
John Glenn's Memoir.
Did you ever get through the Graphic Novels? Watchmen? etc..
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F. Scott Wilson's "Repairman Jack" novels.
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" Once An Eagle " by Anton Myrer . I read it in 1968 during my senior year in high school . I recognized it at the time as a handbook on leadership . The protagonist was everything an Infantry Officer could possibly want to be ...and more . Finally , some bright boy with the Department of the Army recognized the same thing and even though it's a novel , it's become required reading at West Point .
I carried my original copy all the way through my Army experience .