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    List of good books to read?

    I realize most of you posters probably don't read, but I do.

    anyone put their nose in a good book in awhile and wanna share?

    any genre, fiction or non fiction. just looking for a decent book to pass the time

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    I read a lot.

    Here's 9 good ones. Lee Child is my favorite.
    << don't know why it posted like this??>>
    Lee Child
    Michael Connelly
    Robert Crais
    Jeffery Deaver
    John Lescroart
    Steve Martini
    Thomas Perry
    John Sandford
    Joseph Wambaugh
    Last edited by oneunder; 07-14-15 at 12:19 PM. Reason: tried to fix formatting

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    Can you type them out? Doesn't seem to be working

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    Currently reading a book called " Against the Gods" . It's a tough read, im only about half way through.

    I just finished "Deception Point". I like all Dan Brown's stuff.

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    Lee Child
    Michael Connelly
    Robert Crais
    Jeffery Deaver
    John Lescroart
    Steve Martini
    Thomas Perry
    John Sandford
    Joseph Wambaugh

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    Quote Originally Posted by oneunder View Post
    Lee Child
    Michael Connelly
    Robert Crais
    Jeffery Deaver
    John Lescroart
    Steve Martini
    Thomas Perry
    John Sandford
    Joseph Wambaugh
    So any book by these authors or did you forget to specify books?

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    Any book by these authors.

    These are the best 9 out of the 40+ that I'm in the process of reading.

    I use www.fantasticfiction.co.uk to look up the books that an author has written.

    Start with Lee Child...his first book is Killing Floor, written in 1997.
    The character's name is Jack Reacher...Tom Cruise played him in a movie a couple years ago.

    All these authors are very good...maybe a book or two wasn't that great, but it was still a good read.

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    Appreciate it, will give it a look

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    Quote Originally Posted by oneunder View Post
    Any book by these authors.

    These are the best 9 out of the 40+ that I'm in the process of reading.

    I use www.fantasticfiction.co.uk to look up the books that an author has written.

    Start with Lee Child...his first book is Killing Floor, written in 1997.
    The character's name is Jack Reacher...Tom Cruise played him in a movie a couple years ago.

    All these authors are very good...maybe a book or two wasn't that great, but it was still a good read.
    Movie was pretty good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FlipsideRM View Post
    I realize most of you posters probably don't read, but I do.

    anyone put their nose in a good book in awhile and wanna share?

    any genre, fiction or non fiction. just looking for a decent book to pass the time
    My bro likes Clancy if you're into that type stuff.

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    Claude Cueni - The Great Gambler (seriously, it is a great fukkin book. Womanizer, Murderer, Speculator, Genius. The true story of the man who invented paper money)

    Hemingway - The old man and the sea (one of my all time favorites)

    Loads of great nonfictional books out there as well!

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    Curious George

    Clifford

    Harry The Dirty Dog

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    always liked catcher in the rye

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    Dennis Lehane, crime fiction,read the Joe Coughlin series :

    The Given Day
    Live By Night ( outstanding )
    World Gone By

    James Lee Burke,same genre
    read the Dave Robicheaux series , too many too list

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    ThAnks guys. Special thanks to seaweed, will be rooting you on in special olympics

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    "a confederacy of dunces" is one of my favorites (absolutely hilarious). also love that hemingway bullfighting book "the sun also rises??" been awhile since i read it, not sure if that's the name

    most of the stuff i read are autobiographies of people i respect a great deal like: eugene debs, henry wallace, malcolm x, etc. or books that were written ages ago like thomas paine, dostoyevsky, thoreau, etc.

    more contemporary books i like: chomsky "manufacturing consent", hedges "the death of the liberal class"
    howard zinn "a people's history of the united states".

    if you're interested in being an intelligent radical; this is the stuff to read. if not, i'm sure you can find some dogshit by bill o'reilly (that he didn't even write - because he's a dumbass) or dinesh d'souza.

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    Death of the wcw was a good read. Interesting & funny. Haven't watched wrestling since the turn of the century and I couldn't put it down

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    Edgar Allen Poe = The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, Fall of the house of Usher, Masque of the red death, The Black Cat, and the tale tell heart!...great reading if you are into horror or the supernatural...also check out the movie versions starring Vincent Price...

    Charles Dickens = Great Expectations, Oliver Twist....great novels and many different movie versions!...

    JD Salinger = Catcher in the Rye

    Herman Melville = Moby Dick...my favorite novel of all-time and loved the movie starring Gregory Peck!

    Stephen King = Carrie, Cujo, and whole shitload of others...can't go wrong with him...watch Carrie (1976)...one of my favorite horror movies of all-time...it was more suspense with an excellent plot.
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    I've go an extensive background reading intense books of higher brain capacity. Not saying I'm a genius or better than anybody because i am not. If you are looking for easy reading and inspirational checkout the book that got me hooked on reading as a young kid named; "Fighting Back" by former Steelers RB Rocky Blier.

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    Check out something by Charles Bukowski (the guy in my avatar). He wrote mostly about gambling and drinking and whores. I like his poems better than his novels. Here's him reading one of his poems:



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