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May 7, 2015 9:07:46 GMT -7
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Post by Cwi555 on May 7, 2015 9:07:46 GMT -7
What is your favorite book? ( For this thread the Bible is off the table - it is actually a collection of books) AND you only get to pick one! I'll start - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach After that it's the Illiad.
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Post by insaneh on May 7, 2015 9:20:40 GMT -7
ildatch
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Post by ColcordMama on May 7, 2015 15:28:56 GMT -7
Amazing that so many so far pick Louis L'Amour. Until a couple of years ago, my sister Kim was the main caretaker at his ranch in Durango, and his widow Kathy and I have had some dealings too. She admired some crochet work I did for Kim and paid me to make some for her and her good friend, the daughter of actor Alan Ladd.
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Post by woodyz on May 7, 2015 17:53:05 GMT -7
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Post by woodyz on May 7, 2015 18:13:55 GMT -7
i just love the smell of books in the morning!!!!!!!!!!
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Best book
May 8, 2015 17:03:29 GMT -7
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Post by thywar on May 8, 2015 17:03:29 GMT -7
Well you made me do it. Lol. Just finished reading 'The Walking Drum' and it was even better than I remembered reading it 35 yrs ago. Lots of great history in that book.
Makes me (and I will) want to re-read Michener's 'Poland'.
Gotta love that Kindle app on an iPad and Amazon
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May 8, 2015 17:04:24 GMT -7
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Post by thywar on May 8, 2015 17:04:24 GMT -7
Oh! And to see what this Brian Lumley is about.
Nope. Not into horror or sci fi.
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Post by woodyz on May 8, 2015 18:13:59 GMT -7
robert b parker, Larry McMurtry, Lee Child, James Lee Burke, Stephen Hunter
they will suit your style I am sure
Larry McMurtry has a lot more to offer than just westerns too.
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Post by woodyz on May 8, 2015 18:22:26 GMT -7
some Larry McMurtry
1961: Horseman, Pass By - adapted for film as Hud with P Newman
1988: Anything For Billy (fictionalised bio of Billy the Kid)
1990: Buffalo Girls (fictionalised bio of Calamity Jane) - adapted for TV as Buffalo Girls
1994: Pretty Boy Floyd (with Diana Ossana) (fictionalised bio of titular gangster)
1997: Zeke and Ned (with Diana Ossana) (fictionalised bio of the last Cherokee warriors)
1966: The Last Picture Show - adapted for film as The Last Picture Show
1987: Texasville - adapted for film as Texasville
Gus McCrae & Woodrow Call serie 4 books not just 1
Berrybender Narratives 4 books following a fictional family from england to canada to mexico in the early 1800, lots of true history about real people in fiction form
2005: Oh What A Slaughter! : Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890
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Post by sirderrin on May 8, 2015 18:47:12 GMT -7
Well you made me do it. Lol. Just finished reading 'The Walking Drum' and it was even better than I remembered reading it 35 yrs ago. Lots of great history in that book. Makes me (and I will) want to re-read Michener's 'Poland'. Gotta love that Kindle app on an iPad and Amazon The entire Sackett series is worth a read(reread)...
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Post by thywar on May 8, 2015 19:05:04 GMT -7
Multiple times. Owned four volume set of ALL the Sackett novels. Got the DVDs too
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Post by woodyz on May 8, 2015 19:27:40 GMT -7
entire Louis L'Amour worth the reread, have them all, must have read them all at least 4 or 5 times
one case where the movies are ok but not as good as the books
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Post by thywar on May 8, 2015 19:34:13 GMT -7
True but Sam Elliott and Tom Selleck make good Sacketts
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