"Lessons My Father Taught Me" by Michael Reagan

The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan

Just finished "Grapes of Wrath" for the first time. Never read it in school. What a powerful, powerful book. I'd of grown up even more of a commie, red, pinko libtard than I already am if I'd read it in my formative years.;-o

well I read it in school and I'm...

never mind.

Great book!

I did read it in high school, but there's no way any 16 year old can grasp the pathos. I got so much more out of re-reading it last year.

I'm now re- reading Two Years Before the Mast for its description of 1830s California.

The scope of McCarthy's novels is beyond anything you can capture on film. And he continues to evolve. His early stuff is incredible - Child of God, The Orchard Keeper, Blood Meridian, Suttree....

Henry Fonda.

A paperback...

I "picked up" in the outlet bin area of the Ashville,
NC, GOODWILL....

IT BE CALLED...

"Mad Dogs"

Famous action author...
I think he wrote " Three Days of the Condor"

Max Von Sydow:
.....it will happen like this...someday...
Your walking along a street...
And someone..you know very well...will pull over and
WILL open the car door and offer you a lift...

That would drive me batsh*t crazy, and make me want to hunt him down and slap him senseless.

Started 'The Desert Spear' by Peter Brett last night.

Anyone who appreciates fantasy should read 2 series: The Deathgate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, and The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind.

it was really a grind. I only read it because I loved his writing style with long, detailed descriptive sentences in the first few I read...Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. They were much better IMHO.

unless you love a stream of consciousness streaming from an insane mind.

Just finished, The road to little dribbling, by Bill Bryson
About his travels through Britian

if you read 100 years and liked it, go for Love in the Time . At least you won't have to try to keep a few generations of families straight...just 51 years of one guy in love.

I don't really read much these days, at least not much literature, and was never a "best seller list" reader. The last few years I've read about Cod, the Dust Bowl, and the Boston Molasses Flood...but for years it was about the author's sentence construction and detail, and Marquez just blew my mind. No one ever walked up a staircase, they ascended the structure while the intoxicating aroma of the almond trees competed with the dank mustiness off the bogs that rode in with the southeasterly breezes that announced April in a way that...........

and all the character was doing was going to his bedroom!

too tedious for anyone other than word freaks.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

By Phillip K. D#ck

Same for me with the Tolkien Lord of the Rings Trilogy. After two previous attempts that never made it past a few pages into The Two Towers if that far, last summer I decided to give it one more go.

Re-read Hobbit for the fourth time, in something like two days.

Checked out the Trilogy, and BOOM read all three in less than two weeks. Couldn't put them down.

BTW never seen ANY TV shows or movies made out of the books, not sure they would work for me.

Just finished "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George Classon. A classic on basic personal finance, if you like allegories. If you want a handbook type guide, it won't be for you.

The Jealous Kind

James Lee Burke

Dogs of War, FF. Oldie but a goodie

even the pictures don't give it away?

did ya take the day off Joe?

Honey from the Lion - Matthew Null, outstanding first novel, historical look at WVa at turn of century, timber barons, labor unions, natural history.....

Ham on Rye
Factotum
Post Office

All by Charles Bukowski.
love his direct style. Words like fists.

I read all the Demon Cycle books by Peter V Brett. The final book, infuriatingly, is still being written.

I am now onto Brent Weeks' Night Angel Trilogy. Quite interesting so far.

The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown.

Being a fan of U Dub athletics, and rowing in particular, it was a must read for me.

The Count of Monte Cristo.

I'm in deep water now, with a long way to go.