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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.
I read Without remorse in college, stayed up all night for 2 nights. I loved that character and book.
Let me know about Where Men win glory, I have loved Into the Wild and Into thin air
If little bro is into dogs.... check out the Carl books from back in the day.
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
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.
Those are way way way at the top of my all time best list. But Rothfuss has got to finish the dag gum things!
It was a freaking chore to read that mess.... That may very well be my least favorite book ever.
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 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.
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?
The Last Kingdom if you like historical fiction
Read 'The Undefeated: The Story of the Oklahoma Sooners and The Greatest Winning Streak in College Football' also by Dent. It's the story of how Oklahoma rose to prominence in the late 40s and during the 50s under Bud Wilkinson, and it details their 47-game winning streak, and also the aftermath when they finally did lose a game.
It tells of much corruption during their run, and also details interesting players they had back then...Like pro wrestler Wahoo McDaniel, and Prentiss Gaunt....the first black player to ever play for OU.
I highly recommend it if you are a college football fan in general.
On that note, I recently was in a Goodwill store and found a copy of Dooley's book written with Loren Smith on his 25 years coaching at UGA. As I opened the book, surprise, surprise.....It was autographed by Dooley himself. Bought it for only 5 bucks.
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.