Favorite Books!

Eric Sloane,Loius La Mour,Anne Rice,Larry McMurtry, any history or old map book, Rex Beach,The Foxfire Books, have alot of older Zane Grey...
 

Any history. Different periods interest me
at different times, one book leads to another.

Very few fictional books. Perhaps Wilber Smith
and Philip Caputo.

all have a good un.............
 

I'll modify the topic just a bit and list favorite authors instead:

Shakespeare

P. G. Wodehouse, especially those works featuring Bertie Wooster and Jeeves

Talbot Mundy

H. Rider Haggard

G. K. Chesterton

J. R. R. Tolkien

C. S. Lewis

Mark Twain

Arthur Conan Doyle

Agatha Christie

I also enjoy reading books and articles about Nikola Tesla.
 

Two years before the mast: Richard Dana

Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson

For whom the bell tolls: Ernest Hemingway

The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare

I find myself reading short stories and essays also, some of my favorites on those are;

The taming of a bicycle: Mark Twain

The ransom of Red Chief: O. Henry

I would have to say my favorite modern humorous short story writer is Patrick F. McManus, anything written by him will result in convulsive laughter and wiping away tears of joy. He has a novel out now that I haven't gotten to yet, but excerpts I've read point towards expectations of enjoyment.
 

Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
Watership Down - Richard Adams (I have a signed 1st edition)
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis (liking this book does not make me a bad person)
The Shining - Stephen King
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins (great historical fiction)
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown (read it in one sitting)
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float - Farley Mowat
 

Yes, of course Twain and Shakespeare, but I agree Tom Robbins is damn good! (cracks me up). The DaVinci code was really good, but a few parts seemed rather contrived. I've also always liked "A Prayer for Owen Meany" (John Irving), although I didn't care for his other books (popular or not). And I guess I still have fond memories of reading EVERYTHING by Ray Bradbury when I was a kid, so I'll include that. But then, monetarily, I was pleased to find this in the "swap shop" of my local dump... it's worth keeping your eye out for: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...90033304976&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MESE:IT&rd=1
 

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Any title by Zane Grey
Any story by Bret Harte
Life Amongst the Modocs by Joaquin Miller
True Grit (both the book and the movie)
The Desert is Yours by Erle Stanley Garner. Garner, who wrote the Perry Mason mysteries, liked to take trips to the SW desert. He'd often hire a helicopter to make fly-overs in attempts to find lost mines and treasure sites. Great stories, great photos, and great treasure stories. A great read for winter.
 

Enjoy a good amount of Dean Kootz books. Very much enjoyed reading the original Star Trek books way back. I wish I had them today. They were in great shape. No one here can tell me what happened to them. I guess that's what happens to so many things over time they just get tossed or walk off with someone.

Favorite read of all time had to be first time I read Lord of the Rings. It was about 22 years ago or more. I was about 12 or 13 at the time. It was the first book that I read that I did not want to put it down.

Postalrevnant
 

Suwanee Pirate sent me some very old books and I just love them ... One is the Centennial Universal History First 100 years by Isreal Smith Clare dated 1876
and another is just fascinating ....its
Museum of Antiquities By Yaggy and Haines dated 1883
 

Moby Dick
Gone With the Wind
Clan of the Cave Bear
The Fifth Estate
Agony and Ecstasy
Malcolm X
Nicholas+Alexander
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Old Man and the Sea
War and Peace
Of Human Bondage
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Pride and Prejudice
 

Hey guys, search on Ebay for "Mexico Conquest" and look for books/volumes by Prescott, who wrote in the early 1800's as a historian. His "The Conquest of Mexico" is riveting stuff, and paints an incredible story, with much background history of the pre-conquest nation and Spain at the time.

Some great buys are to be had for under $10, for books that are 70-100 years old.

Also good is the book by Bernal Diaz, one of the Conquistadores, from which much material was taken by later historians. The guy was actually THERE.

Incredible stuff. The author was nearly blind for much of his life and relied on interpreters and dictation and a special writing device for the blind.

Bob
 

Complet hard back set of Loius La Mour,two Complete sets of Zane Gray books and intend to read them again. I love any history or geography books on north America,.
Burdie
 

Good grief. Somehow I managed to leave off not one but two of my greatest favorites:

The Book of Ebenezer LePage by G. B. Edwards

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
 

Bluenoser's choice

From the land of the Bluenose.....
1. Seige of Lady Smith
2. The Seedier Side of Victorian Halifax
3. Warden of the North
4. Cussler and Grishom books
5. Aztec
 

diggitdoggie said:
Would actually be easier to list books I don't like..although I can't think of any at the moment.
Favorite authors are easier:

Shakespeare
Chaucer
Melville
Doug Adams
Vonnegaut
Dame A. Christie
O'Henry
Faulkner
London
The Brontes
Asimov
Bradbury
I could just keep going..
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Whoa there pardner, don't you like any living authors? LOL
 

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