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  • Lefty13Lefty13 Posts: 536 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    Always enjoyed Clancy's work, Red Storm Rising is probable my favorite. Another really good book was one I read back in school and have reread a time or two is The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. It's worth reading.

  • TNDawg71TNDawg71 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @christopherules said:
    @scooterdawg I am a pretty HUGE Tom Clancy fan. I must say that I really do love the Public Library system FREE iPhone, (and ANDROID too) APP(s) and it is called "Overdrive".... as I simply do not have the kind of time that I would like to have, and leisurely turn pages anymore like I did in my younger days? Besides that, I have to use "readers" these days also, and they are a pain! I also enjoy that most public libraries use this free program for their respective "E-libraries" and that is where I have found FREE AUDIO-BOOKS to check out for periods of either 14 days, or sometimes 21 days at a time. I simply download the entire book into my iPhone, and it's done. When the audio-book is due? There are no late fees either! I am currently listening to "Without Remorse" by Tom Clancy.

    I read Without remorse in college, stayed up all night for 2 nights. I loved that character and book.

  • TNDawg71TNDawg71 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @JRT812 said:
    Yo @scooterdawg bro, thanks for taking point on this! I can’t wait to write down some titles. I tried the audio thing and couldn’t do it. I recently did my first online book with what I’m currently reading “can’t hurt me” by David Goggins. Digging the ebook, but prefer to have to actual book in hand.

    Bro’s and Broette’s, check these books out if it’s your thing. Got them done in Decemberish


    Let me know about Where Men win glory, I have loved Into the Wild and Into thin air

  • JRT812JRT812 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @JoelSidneyKelly said:

    I read... with my one year old son.

    If little bro is into dogs.... check out the Carl books from back in the day.

  • JRT812JRT812 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited January 2019

    @TNDawg71 said:

    @JRT812 said:
    Yo @scooterdawg bro, thanks for taking point on this! I can’t wait to write down some titles. I tried the audio thing and couldn’t do it. I recently did my first online book with what I’m currently reading “can’t hurt me” by David Goggins. Digging the ebook, but prefer to have to actual book in hand.

    Bro’s and Broette’s, check these books out if it’s your thing. Got them done in Decemberish


    Let me know about Where Men win glory, I have loved Into the Wild and Into thin air

    Just excellent books. Into the air tool me a moment to get into it, but turned out to be a decent book. I have read into the wild a ton of times and it’s probably top 3 of my favorite books.

    Getting to Where Men Win Glory.... really interesting and a great read. Honestly I didn’t know much about Pat at the time other than him being a football player and someone who served his country. It provided insight on his thinking and to me it was interesting to see how he thought compared to how he determined his life’s plans. Check it out. Great read and and taking a silly sport called football out of it..... Pat is a legend in my mind

  • JRT812JRT812 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @JRT812 said:

    @TNDawg71 said:

    @JRT812 said:
    Yo @scooterdawg bro, thanks for taking point on this! I can’t wait to write down some titles. I tried the audio thing and couldn’t do it. I recently did my first online book with what I’m currently reading “can’t hurt me” by David Goggins. Digging the ebook, but prefer to have to actual book in hand.

    Bro’s and Broette’s, check these books out if it’s your thing. Got them done in Decemberish


    Let me know about Where Men win glory, I have loved Into the Wild and Into thin air

    Just excellent books. Into the air tool me a moment to get into it, but turned out to be a decent book. I have read into the wild a ton of times and it’s probably top 3 of my favorite books.

    Getting to Where Men Win Glory.... really interesting and a great read. Honestly I didn’t know much about Pat at the time other than him being a football player and someone who served his country. It provided insight on his thinking and to me it was interesting to see how he thought compared to how he determined his life’s plans. Check it out. Great read and and taking a silly sport called football out of it..... Pat is a legend in my mind

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I love that this thread was started. I assume we are going to see a huge variety of choices in this...

    I read mostly sci fi and fantasy. Almost always fiction. I read for entertainment.

    Just this morning I finished Skyward by Branden Sanderson. A fantastic novel about a girl who's father is the best pilot for a futuristic human population stranded on an alien planet being constantly attacked from the sky by another alien race. Well when she is young her father supposedly becomes a coward and runs away and is shot down by his co-pilots in battle. So she grows up constantly being bullied for being the "cowards daughter". This drivers her to be determined to join the very difficult flight school, become a pilot herself, and restore the name of her family. Fascinating world, but what made the book awesome to me was the ending. Lots of questions are answered, but enough were left for it's sequel supposedly coming out in the fall of 2019.

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @HumbleYourself said:
    Just finished "The Name of the Wind" and its sequel "The Wise Man's Fear"....both were excellent for anyone who enjoys fantasy.

    Those are way way way at the top of my all time best list. But Rothfuss has got to finish the dag gum things!

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @HumbleYourself said:

    @scooterdawg said:

    @HumbleYourself said:
    Just finished "The Name of the Wind" and its sequel "The Wise Man's Fear"....both were excellent for anyone who enjoys fantasy.

    Two of my favorite fantasy books. A girl I was dating some years back got me into Rothfuss and Martin as I had a bad opinion of fantasy. I loved both but unfortunately they are the two WORST examples of writers not being able to finish a series to the point of pissing off their fans lol. George is going on a decade or more since his last book and Rothfuss isn’t far behind. Both have also put out other books in the meantime making it even more annoying. And both get salty when fans get on them.

    Rothfuss very well might be trolling us...Especially after publishing The Slow Regard of Silent Things...should have stayed silent on that one.

    It was a freaking chore to read that mess.... That may very well be my least favorite book ever.

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @Steve_Zissou said:
    Good call on Slaughterhouse 5. Need to read again.
    Stormlight Archives is a great series for fantasy fans

    Currently reading Micheners “Caribbean”. Not as good as “Hawaii”

    Dune is my favorite book of all time

    Stormlight is pretty good. But his Mistborn series is his best work IMO. But Branden Sanderson is an amazing author regardless. I've yet to read anything by him I didn't love.

  • TNDawg71TNDawg71 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I recently listened to All quiet on the Western Front, somehow missed that in HS, enjoyed it.
    World War Z is one I recommend, it was very different from the movie.
    I've decided to listen to No Country for Old Men, I read the book a few years ago, I love Cormac McCarthy's style.

  • scooterdawgscooterdawg Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @RxDawg said:

    @Steve_Zissou said:
    Good call on Slaughterhouse 5. Need to read again.
    Stormlight Archives is a great series for fantasy fans

    Currently reading Micheners “Caribbean”. Not as good as “Hawaii”

    Dune is my favorite book of all time

    Stormlight is pretty good. But his Mistborn series is his best work IMO. But Branden Sanderson is an amazing author regardless. I've yet to read anything by him I didn't love.

    I browse the suggestabook type threads on Reddit and other places and I've seen tons of recs for Sanderson. He seems to have a lot of books/series and I've been wondering where would be a good place to start with him? Should I give Mistborn a try or start with a one off to see if I like him do ya think?

  • sauceddawgsauceddawg Posts: 212 ✭✭✭ Junior

    The Last Kingdom if you like historical fiction

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited January 2019

    @scooterdawg said:

    @RxDawg said:

    @Steve_Zissou said:
    Good call on Slaughterhouse 5. Need to read again.
    Stormlight Archives is a great series for fantasy fans

    Currently reading Micheners “Caribbean”. Not as good as “Hawaii”

    Dune is my favorite book of all time

    Stormlight is pretty good. But his Mistborn series is his best work IMO. But Branden Sanderson is an amazing author regardless. I've yet to read anything by him I didn't love.

    I browse the suggestabook type threads on Reddit and other places and I've seen tons of recs for Sanderson. He seems to have a lot of books/series and I've been wondering where would be a good place to start with him? Should I give Mistborn a try or start with a one off to see if I like him do ya think?

    Mistborn for sure. It's a completed 3 book series. Although he did write other books in that world that occur much later. But that book series absolutely amazed me and could very well be my favorite of all time. The ending is phenomenal. And what is really neat is that each of the 3 books is very different. Same people and world but the story takes amazing turns that you will never see coming. I truly can't recommend it enough.

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