Favorite Books?

[NcDeuce]

Got this idea from the 1984 thread...

What are your favorite books? Least?

My favs...

The Great Gatsby
The Old Man & The Sea
Hamlet
Macbeth
Of Mice And Men
The Pearl
Band of Brothers
The Greatest Generation
Black Hawk Down
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
The Killer Angels
Shadow Warriors
We Were Soldiers


What I'm in the process of reading when I don't have schoolwork...

Army Officer's Guide [49th Edition]

Books I didn't really like...

Grapes of Wrath
1984
Catcher in the Rye
Hawthorne mostly sucks

[duck]

Jay McInerney:

Bright lights,big city

Ransom

Tom Wolfe:

Bonfire of the Vanities

Junichiro Tanizaki:

The Makioka Sisters

[Haiw]

Check out Dean Koontz. His books are ****ing great.

[memphiz]

Stephen Coonts:
-Fortunes of War
-America
-Liberty
-The Red Horseman
-Hong Kong
-Cuba


Tom Clancy
-Rainbow Six

Richard Marcinko
-Rogue Warrior:Green Team
-Rogue Warrior:Task Force Blue

[Dennis G]

Some of My Favorites

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel by Ian Fleming

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell

Who's Looking Out For You? By Bill O'Reilly

Deliver Us from Evil by Sean Hannity

The Enemy Within by Michael Savage

WARRIORS & WARLORDS by Angus McBride

CONSTANT BATTLES By Steven A. LeBlanc with Katherine E. Register

WAR PAINT by Bill Goshen

WASHINGTON'S CROSSING by David Fischer

SAMURAI by Stephen Turnbull, Angus McBride

INTO AFRICA; THE UNTOLD STORY OF STANLEY & LIVINGSTON
by Martin Dugard

THE GREATEST HUNTING STORIES EVER TOLD by Lamar Underwood

GULAG: A HISTORY by Anne Applebaum

NRA: AN AMERICAN LEGEND by Jeff Rodengen

THE CELL by John Miller and Michael Stone

[hank]

Great choices all, NCDeuce. If you like Gatsby and Of Mice and Men you'll love Grapes of Wrath and I also highly recommend Cannery Row.

hank

[Guttorm]

I've always been a big fan of "mio min mio" By Astrid Lindgren :) Best childrens book ever. :)

When it comes to someting that people outside scandinavia might know:

Tolkien's Lord of the rings.

Great fantasy.

Oh, and of course, anything by Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. :D

[gaz]

"Black Hawk Down" is a truly fascinating book and an excellent piece of journalism by Mark Bowden.

"Red Dwarf" by Grant Naylor is hysterical, I've probably read it a couple of dozen times and it never fails to make me laugh.

"The Dambusters" by Paul Brickhill is one I have to include. I inherited my Grandfathers copy about 12 years ago, they were just ordinary men doing things that at the time (And still now) defy belief.

Finally, this is probably the most ridiculously funny book I've ever read - "Are you Dave Gorman?" by Dave Gorman. Essentially it's the true story of two housemates in London (One of whom is named Dave Gorman) who get in a drunken bet about how many people there are in the world who share that titular name. An hour later they're on a train to Scotland to find the first of fifty-four Dave Gormans (They have to find fifty-four because that's how many cards are in a deck, including the jokers). Their travels include tornados in the States, very angry security men in Israel and being front page news in a national Danish newspaper...

[mustamato]

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Sinuhe - The egyptian

And well, all other of his books. I tend to like historical books in general,
hm, there are so many of them. But not only historical of course...

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1100 pages of action, excellent book

[Haiw]

Since a lot of war books are being mentioned anyway; the Moscow - Stalingrad - Berlin trilogy by Theodor Plievier.

[farmgirl]

It depends on whether you want classics or contemporary.....

some contemporary authors I like:

Vince Flynn
Robert Crais
Tess Gerritsen
Douglas Adams
Kathy Reichs
Lee Child
John Grisham
David Baldacci


Classics....
Shakespeare
Hawthorne
Steinbeck
Tennyson
The Bronte sisters


many many more

[Rantanplan]

If I would have to go on a lonely island,
I would take two things with me .
The drawing of farmgirl and my Ilias.

[Haiw]

The Oddysey is great too...

[Ratamacue]

Military - Nonfiction
Black Hawk Down (Mark Bowden)
Battle of Mogadishu, 3 Oct. 1993.
Band of Brothers (Stephen Ambrose)
E Company, 506th PIR in WW2.
Force Recon Command (Alex Lee)
3rd Force Recon Co. in Vietnam, 1969-1970.
Jarhead (Anthony Swofford)
Memoir of a Marine Scout/Sniper before, during, and after Desert Storm.

Fiction
Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein)
Sci-fi novel of a 22nd century war between humans and an insectoid race.
The Pepperdogs (Bing West)
Military fiction about a team of Recon Marines in Kosovo.
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Strange sci-fi novel of a far, far future on the desert planet Arrakis.
Semper Mars
Luna Marine
Europa Strike (Ian Douglas)
Sci-fi trilogy in the mid-21st century depicting a war between the UN and a US-Russian-Japanese Alliance across the solar system.

[James]

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stevenson is a good tale. I am currently reading Quicksilver.

[Chet Mystery]

Takami's touching classic about the troubles of growing up in this crazy world:

Battle Royal

p-)

[MetalBoy]

First Blood by David Morrell
Not many people know that Rambo is based on a book, a lean and mean novel that is also surprisingly a very heartfelt take on how America betrayed its war heroes of Vietnam. It's violent as hell too, makes the movie feel like it was a Disney adaption.

[Seraphim]

Ugh! Begone with your Shakespear!!!!

[Magua]

The Lords of Discipline and My Losing Season by Pat Conroy

[Hullebullen]

"Fågelbröstet" - about a swedish guy in US rangers during Grenada. One of the best soldiers stories I ever read.

"Ok, Amen" - swedish jewish journalist journeys into the world of Chassidic jews in NY.

"Svenskarna som stred för Hitler" - About swedish SS-volounteers, their experiences on the eastern front and what happened when they came back to Sweden. A great book about how the swedish government turned a blind eye to those people and how Sweden has (not) dealt with it's WW2 history.

"Into that darkness" - Gitta Sereny's journey into the mind of Franz Stangl, commendant of Treblinka.

"Black hawk down" - Much better than the movie.

[farmgirl]

"Black hawk down" - Much better than the movie.

agreed....
books are nearly always better than the movies.....

[Haiw]

Unless it's **** p-)

[memphiz]

Unless it's **** p-)
yeh a **** novel would be weird

[Maverick77]

Black Hawk Down

Band of Brothers

Run Between the Raindrops

Jarhead




Blood on the Risers is on its way to my house that should be good.