What are some of your favorite books you read regardless of your age? When I was a pre-teen teenager, I loved to read Sweet Valley High books. I read most of them; there were so engaging at that age. I also currently love books by James Patterson; one of my favorites by him is Sunday at Tiffany's. I read that book in literally 3 days. As a kid, I loved Golden Books. One of my favorites was Barbie and the Missing Wedding Dress....
shareGuns, Germs and Steel
Watership Down
First Blood
The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
The Grapes of Wrath
A song of Ice and Fire
Huckleberry Finn
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Dracula
The Old Man and the Sea
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Call of the Wild
Salem's Lot
Many others
First blood the David Morrell Book?
shareYes indeed!
I've read it 3 times at least, I love the simple, economical language and story
It's an amazing little tale of an unhinged veteran who was not taking bullshit anymore, in fact he actively instigated when he could have fled to safety from the bully sheriff who abused him for simply passing through town
I consider it one of the best books ever on the theme of 'screw you, I'm not obeying your horseshit commands any longer...'
Great movie too though the plot was a bit different in the film
Stallone nailed the character👍
I've seen the movie and looked into buying the book, but I don't remember why I never followed through with it. The story is definitely right down my alley, so with your recommendation, I'm going to order it.
P.S. A great website for used books is Abebooks.com I use it all the time.
1. "Off Season" - Jack Ketchum
2. "Let's Go Play At the Adams'" - Mendal W. Johnson
3. "Pet Sematary" - Stephen King
4. "The Warriors" - Sol Yurick
The Aubrey-Maturin Series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series
Favorite genre would be non-fiction survival/adventure. Examples are:
Skeletons of the Zahara by Dean King
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Dersu the Trapper by Vladimir Arsenyev
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi - dispenses with all the crazy conspiracy theories re: the JFK assassination.
shareyay! i second this choice.
i also recommend gerald posner's case closed. it's very good as well, & is a little more approachable at about 1/3 the length if i remember correctly.
I read Helter Skelter by Bugliosi and Gentry years ago
It was an intelligent and horrifying read, well researched and engaging
I'll check out your title though I wont require much convincing
I believe Oswald was a total loon acting alone
James Earl Ray seemed like an idiot who was assisted by a Klan conspiracy but Oswald seemed like a lone nutball
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
The Wizard Children of Finn
All the Light We Cannot See
Anne of Green Gables
The Little House on The Prairie series
Water for Elephants
The House of Sixty Fathers
A Town Like Alice
I also have a real soft spot for cozy mysteries, and Christopher Pike books.
I remember Little House of Prairie series. I read a few of those books!!!!
sharepeter singer - the ethics of what we eat, the life you can save, how are we to live
daniel kahneman - thinking fast and slow
steven pinker - the better angels of our nature
richard dawkins - the selfish gene
michael schermer - the believing brain
milton friedman - free to choose
thomas sowell - basic economics
sy montgomery - the soul of an octopus
sebastian junger - tribe
philip k dick - martian time slip, ubik, the trhee stigmata of palmer eldtritch
sam harris - free will
leonard mlodinow - subliminial - how your unconscious mind rulse your behavior
I like the Poirot books. Death on the Nile was good.
shareWhen I was a youngster:
The Little House series
The Bobbsey Twins series
The Betsy-Tacy series
More recent reads:
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond
Glass house : the 1% economy and the shattering of the all-American town by Brian Alexander
Katrina: After the Flood by Gary Rivlin
The Day the World Came to Town : 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
Under One Roof: lessons I learned from a tough old woman in a little old house by Barry Martin
I learned a lot from these books.