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  • texdawgtexdawg Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @UnderDog68 said:

    @texdawg said:
    Great football reads by Jim Dent

    1. Junction Boys
    2. Twelve Mighty Orphans

    Both are true and both are excellent

    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.

    Awesome find on the Dooley book. And I'll read 'The Undefeated'. Dent's life was/is a wreck but he is a great author.

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  • HumbleYourselfHumbleYourself Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @RxDawg said:

    @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.

    The zero dialog except with personified innanimate objects gimmick was awful.

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

    @HumbleYourself said:

    @RxDawg said:

    @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.

    The zero dialog except with personified innanimate objects gimmick was awful.

    I remember he actually came out with a warning at the beginning of the book that it was not exactly like his other stuff. But geeze, I thought he was just trying to be modest O.O

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  • tfk_fanboytfk_fanboy Posts: 2,821 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Here is what I have read in the last year and a half or so. Some were great and some were just ok

    The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo
    The Godfather by Mario Puzo
    Neuromancer by William Gibson
    The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien
    The Bobiverse Trilogy by Dennis E Taylor
    Dune by Frank Herbert
    The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
    The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
    Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
    American Gods by Neil Gaiman
    A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
    Kingkiller Chronicles part 1 and 2 by Patrick Rothfuss

    I am currently reading The Complete Short Stories (Finca Vigia Edition) by Ernest Hemingway

    My next two will be
    Dracula by Bram Stoker
    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

    Not 100% what is after that

    One book I recommend to everyone is A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks by Allen Morris Jones

    It is a fantastic read about hunting, philosophy, and man's role in nature

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

    @tfk_fanboy said:

    The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien
    Dune by Frank Herbert
    The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
    American Gods by Neil Gaiman
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
    Kingkiller Chronicles part 1 and 2 by Patrick Rothfuss

    Those are books I have read and are all good to great. Ready Player One was a recent movie. The movie was actually okay, and I was kind of worried about it. But that book is straight up fantastic. It's full of 80s nostalgia as well (which is why it was in the movie). I almost mentioned it as a must read. Glad to see someone else read it.

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  • HumbleYourselfHumbleYourself Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    oawful.o> @tfk_fanboy said:

    Here is what I have read in the last year and a half or so. Some were great and some were just ok

    The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo
    The Godfather by Mario Puzo
    Neuromancer by William Gibson
    The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien
    The Bobiverse Trilogy by Dennis E Taylor
    Dune by Frank Herbert
    The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
    The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
    Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
    American Gods by Neil Gaiman
    A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
    Kingkiller Chronicles part 1 and 2 by Patrick Rothfuss

    I am currently reading The Complete Short Stories (Finca Vigia Edition) by Ernest Hemingway

    My next two will be
    Dracula by Bram Stoker
    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

    Not 100% what is after that

    One book I recommend to everyone is A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks by Allen Morris Jones

    It is a fantastic read about hunting, philosophy, and man's role in nature

    This list covers many good ones. Bobiverse being the sneaky good series I wouldn't have expected to love. Check out the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson and the Magic 2.0 series by Scott Meyer for others that will surprise you.

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  • HumbleYourselfHumbleYourself Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @RxDawg said:

    @tfk_fanboy said:

    The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien
    Dune by Frank Herbert
    The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
    American Gods by Neil Gaiman
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
    Kingkiller Chronicles part 1 and 2 by Patrick Rothfuss

    Those are books I have read and are all good to great. Ready Player One was a recent movie. The movie was actually okay, and I was kind of worried about it. But that book is straight up fantastic. It's full of 80s nostalgia as well (which is why it was in the movie). I almost mentioned it as a must read. Glad to see someone else read it.

    Great book for sure...Armada is also worth reading if you like Ernest Cline's style.

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  • tfk_fanboytfk_fanboy Posts: 2,821 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @RxDawg said:

    @tfk_fanboy said:

    The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien
    Dune by Frank Herbert
    The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
    American Gods by Neil Gaiman
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
    Kingkiller Chronicles part 1 and 2 by Patrick Rothfuss

    Those are books I have read and are all good to great. Ready Player One was a recent movie. The movie was actually okay, and I was kind of worried about it. But that book is straight up fantastic. It's full of 80s nostalgia as well (which is why it was in the movie). I almost mentioned it as a must read. Glad to see someone else read it.

    I loved reading Ready Player One. I agree the movie was ok but that is as far as I am willing to go in complimenting it ha. It probably should have been two movies

    I recommend the Bobiverse trilogy if you liked that. Fast paced, easy to read, does not take itself too seriously, and just a fun trilogy.

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  • tfk_fanboytfk_fanboy Posts: 2,821 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @HumbleYourself said:
    oawful.o> @tfk_fanboy said:

    Here is what I have read in the last year and a half or so. Some were great and some were just ok

    The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo
    The Godfather by Mario Puzo
    Neuromancer by William Gibson
    The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien
    The Bobiverse Trilogy by Dennis E Taylor
    Dune by Frank Herbert
    The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
    The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
    Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
    American Gods by Neil Gaiman
    A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
    Kingkiller Chronicles part 1 and 2 by Patrick Rothfuss

    I am currently reading The Complete Short Stories (Finca Vigia Edition) by Ernest Hemingway

    My next two will be
    Dracula by Bram Stoker
    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

    Not 100% what is after that

    One book I recommend to everyone is A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks by Allen Morris Jones

    It is a fantastic read about hunting, philosophy, and man's role in nature

    This list covers many good ones. Bobiverse being the sneaky good series I wouldn't have expected to love. Check out the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson and the Magic 2.0 series by Scott Meyer for others that will surprise you.

    Yeah, I ended up enjoying it quite a bit.

    Funny you mention the magic 2.0 as Off to Be A Wizard is on my to-read list. I have not heard of the other but I will look into it.

    If you have any kids the audiobook Zero G by Dan Well is a fun one. My son and I finished it a couple of weeks ago.

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

    @HumbleYourself said:

    @RxDawg said:

    @tfk_fanboy said:

    The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien
    Dune by Frank Herbert
    The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
    American Gods by Neil Gaiman
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
    Kingkiller Chronicles part 1 and 2 by Patrick Rothfuss

    Those are books I have read and are all good to great. Ready Player One was a recent movie. The movie was actually okay, and I was kind of worried about it. But that book is straight up fantastic. It's full of 80s nostalgia as well (which is why it was in the movie). I almost mentioned it as a must read. Glad to see someone else read it.

    Great book for sure...Armada is also worth reading if you like Ernest Cline's style.

    I've wanted to.... but I was so worried about a let down since there is no way it could be as good as RP1.

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  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ 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

    Is he the guy who wrote This Old Hore House ?

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  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @HumbleYourself said:
    All works by Terry Pratchett are worthy reads...if you can't enjoy Discworld...you have are incapable of joy.

    I fell asleep reading the brief description at Amazon, to each their own. Horton Holds The Whos ?

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  • HumbleYourselfHumbleYourself Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @WCDawg said:

    @HumbleYourself said:
    All works by Terry Pratchett are worthy reads...if you can't enjoy Discworld...you are incapable of joy.

    I fell asleep reading the brief description at Amazon, to each their own. Horton Holds The Whos ?

    Sounds about right....capable of joy was the prerequisite.

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

    @HumbleYourself said:

    @WCDawg said:

    @HumbleYourself said:
    All works by Terry Pratchett are worthy reads...if you can't enjoy Discworld...you are incapable of joy.

    I fell asleep reading the brief description at Amazon, to each their own. Horton Holds The Whos ?

    Sounds about right....capable of joy was the prerequisite.

    LOL that was funny right there

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  • KaseyKasey Posts: 29,710 mod

    If you dig crime novels, anything by Ross Thomas should blow your hair back. Chinaman's chance and Briarpatch are two of my favorites

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