Has anyone mentioned Hyperion by Dan Simmons, yet? LOL I've tried reading that novel three times. I made it all the way to the individual stories and gave up on my last attempt.
Another couple of short novels are The Martian and Artemis by Andy Weir. The Martian, of course, is an awesome novel. Artemis reads more like a young adult story.
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
Just finished Michael Connleys Bosch series....best cop book series I’ve ever read, I saw one, ONE gun mistake....and all of the procedure was very similar to real investigation...
In fact I started reading the Lincoln Lawyer series because he’s related to Bosch (same author)
I get them online and usually am done in 8-9 hours...
Big fan of the Jeff Shaara series, historical fiction...
And starship troopers
Thomas Harris- Hannibal series
DouglaS Addams’ four book trilogy....
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein
“You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020
“A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker
October 24, 2020, 04:18 AM
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Originally posted by MikeinNC: Just finished Michael Connleys Bosch series....best cop book series I’ve ever read, I saw one, ONE gun mistake....and all of the procedure was very similar to real investigation...
In fact I started reading the Lincoln Lawyer series because he’s related to Bosch (same author)
In perusing the book section in my local thrift store I ran across a copy. Only a couple chapters in but it's a good escape from current affairs. As an aside, I remember the 2003 movie The Missing with Tommy Lee Jones, although that was Apache and in the 1880s. That slow roasting scene stuck in my head.
October 24, 2020, 09:26 AM
mark123
My suggestions are probably mundane and you've most likely already read them.
The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged The 6 Dune books Ringworld Playground of the Mind is a collection of short stories by Larry Niven Pebble in the Sky Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
October 24, 2020, 10:21 AM
thunderson
I would suggest William Gibson. Amazing writer.
Neuromancer, Count Zero , Mona Lisa Overdrive, in that order followed by Pattern Recognition.
He has others more recent but I haven't read them yet.
I have the heart of a lion.......and a lifetime ban from the Toronto Zoo.- Unknown
October 24, 2020, 02:16 PM
CoolRich59
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Originally posted by NavyAgShooter: I'm trying hard to finish Ian W. Toll's "Six Frigates" so I can start on his Pacific war trilogy.
Also waiting on the third volume of James Holland's War in the West trilogy on the European theater. I keep looking for a publication date but haven't found it yet.
Six frigates got to be a bit of a slog.
Agree. I like Ian Toll, but did not really care for Six Frigates. However, I've read the first two volumes of the Pacific trilogy (Pacific Crucible and The Conquering Tide) adnd thought they were both excellent. I got the third volume (Twilight of the Gods) a few weeks ago but haven't started it yet.
_____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell
October 24, 2020, 02:23 PM
CoolRich59
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Originally posted by mark123:
Atlas Shrugged
The first time I read Atlas Shrugged, I thought it was brilliant.
I read it again a few years late and kept thinking 'Why doesn't this self-absorbed blowhard get to the point?'
_____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell
October 26, 2020, 02:50 PM
SBrooks
All of the "John Grimes" books by A Bertram Chandler
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October 26, 2020, 03:43 PM
feersum dreadnaught
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Originally posted by thunderson: I would suggest William Gibson. Amazing writer.
Neuromancer, Count Zero , Mona Lisa Overdrive, in that order followed by Pattern Recognition.
He has others more recent but I haven't read them yet.
Agreed. Another excellent sci-fi writer is Iain M Banks. The "Culture" series - Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, The State of the Art, Use of Weapons, Excession Inversions, Look to Windward, Matter, Surface Detail, The Hydrogen Sonata.
I'd start with "The Player of Games"
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October 27, 2020, 07:55 PM
mark123
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Originally posted by CoolRich59:
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Originally posted by mark123:
Atlas Shrugged
The first time I read Atlas Shrugged, I thought it was brilliant.
I read it again a few years late and kept thinking 'Why doesn't this self-absorbed blowhard get to the point?'
I feel ya.
October 28, 2020, 10:06 AM
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Another series that's turning out really good: C.J. Box' Joe Pickett series.
October 28, 2020, 10:14 AM
PASig
I'm reading this on my new Kindle and it's pretty good so far:
Accidental Warrior: The Unlikely Tale of Bloody Hal
Hal Christianson, 18, from White Plains, New York, is a 2016 American college freshman stranded in a cave on a dark and stormy night after a party. He literally falls into an alternative North America--the same place, in 2016, but now a semi-wild country, where Colonial-era levels of technology, values, and power struggles prevail. A friendly "woodsranger" explains, conveniently, the back story. The American Revolution never happened. Instead, an extinction-level plague swept 17th-century Europe, sending boatloads of refugees bearing remnants of their rival imperial cultures--English, Dutch, French, and Spanish--to the New World. They wage war with one another over territorial domination in between truces and trading alliances. Hal (fortunately, a member of a school fencing team) adapts to this new abnormal with some finesse and a bit of luck that earn him a useful but reluctant reputation as a serious fighter. He accompanies a Swedish merchant expedition (actually a cover for gunrunning) to Nieuw Amsterdam--the island city fort that should have been New York--on faint hints that somebody there might comprehend his predicament and know how to send him back to his rightful world. Meanwhile, Hal stumbles into intrigues, romance, and an incipient insurgency. There are ingredients for a YA swashbuckler in this smart, energetic alternative-history opus from pseudonymous author Alexander (Lady of Ice and Fire, 1995). But between the sex, swearing, and gore, the lively antics remain consistently R-rated. Alexander succinctly sketches details of this brutal, archaic milieu, mainly in terms of military troop movements and command virtues (or lack thereof). Further subtleties of this class-bound alternate America tend to be marginalized or only inferred. Native Americans are remote "savages"; people of color only appear low in the ranks of the Dutch; Massachusetts Puritans have the continent's only democratic government but are otherwise distant, religious-fanatic menaces. Still, the pace and action never let up. Adventurous readers should find themselves acclimating to this raw, rustic, rough-and-tumble environment just as the plucky teenage protagonist does. A rousing what-if look at a decidedly different America persuasively stuck in a historical past." - Kirkus Reviews
October 28, 2020, 11:25 AM
just1tym
Though probably not the most popular read, just in case I'll throw it in, the Bible. Just finished my last read from 10/2019- 8/2020 which has made it my 4th complete read at 5-10 chapters a day. Without question, each read solidify's reinforcement and always and uniquely find something that applies to daily circumstances.
It's just my daily commitment I made. Of course, I'm not fanatical about it or attend Church, it's just a personal quest, staying in touch I guess.
I've been an avid reader all my life and read of have small libraries of selections and collections as many probably do in this thread. My interest are varied as my latest book sitting here on my computer desk, "Encounter In Rendlesham Forest" by Nick Pope previous MoD. So I even dig in those areas of interests so, my tastes swing wide.
Thanks for the topic because I was thinking about my next book interests, and I certainly don't mind the longer reads like yourself. All my life I've always love expanding my interests and everything is game..
I feel ya.