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Posted: 8/20/2009 8:57:03 PM | | Anything by Bryce Courtenay. You may also want to try Greg Iles.....hard to put down! | |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 12:40:06 AM | "the gears - a husband and wife team who write historical fiction about the first nations people (people of the lakes, of the fire, of the wolf etc) "
LOVED this series! I couldn't put it down..now that I am finished I want more...are there any other authors/stories like this series??
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Posted: 8/21/2009 5:33:31 PM | I agree with RatherBgolfing's list.
Just discovered a new one: Tom Rob Smith's first novel "Child 44" was amazingly well written. And, of course you can't go wrong with anything by Lee Child. | |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 10:13:24 AM | | I just read a really cool book...TROUBLE IS HER BUSINESS. It's a mystery and it can be found on Amazon. The author writes a lot like Raymond Chandler only her--a think it's a her--hero is a woman. | |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 2:07:31 PM | "I Am A Hutterite"
It is really well written and gives a glimpse into a totally different culture that's here in Canada that many of us are totally uninformed about. | |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 3:42:47 PM | oh ya.. ^^^ awesome book! I am also into reading Jody Picoult. Just finished her 'Handle with Care'. Awesome! I find I can't read her books back to back though. They are sooo thought-provoking, they make my 2 brain cells hurt lol.  | |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 10:52:11 PM | | I just bought an amazing book called "Our Lives and Times" ... it's a history book from 1900 to 2003... but it doesn't have just dry information, it has newspaper articles from each year, pictures, articles about underlying trends, essays from the great thinkers of their times... it's fascinating. It's gonna take me a long time to read it all though! It's gonna make me sooo smrt... :) | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 8:33:48 AM | Ken Follett has two that are really worth looking at, The Pillars of the Earth, and World Without End.
Both very much worth a look. | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 8:49:11 AM | | oooo I love Ken Follett! I will hafta check those 2 out. thanks! | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 10:28:12 AM |
I just bought an amazing book called "Our Lives and Times"
I've heard that this is an excellent book. I'm going to look for it. | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 12:42:04 PM | | It's a fascinating book, Daisy... I was prepared to pay full price for it but you can get it at Second Chance Liquidation for $3. I bought a couple of copies but will probably go back and buy a few more copies to give away. | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 2:57:12 PM | | Thanks birdbrain. That's a good deal! | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 7:04:00 PM | | I have been reading a book called Blackwater. Great book about Blackwater and how they are the largest private millitary in the world. Scary stuff. I have a guilty pleasure when I read Dean Koontz. I also like real life storys. One of the best I have read was Alive. Great book. | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 10:45:44 PM | "Pillars of the earth" was by far one of the best ones I have ever read. Looking forward to reading his new one, just need to find more time. I am sure it will be as good as Pillars. Could hardly put that one down.
Just finished a book called 'The Shack"..very good read as well... | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 10:53:40 PM | OH yes..
and anything by Jon Krakauer?..is that how you spell it?...first book i started with was 'Into Thin Air'...I could not put it down and read it ALL till 4am...unbelievable!
I read everything else he put out after that..and just as amazing as that first one. | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 11:05:33 PM | The talk about See Spot Run reminded me of one of my favorite books... "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon. It's a great spin on a mystery novel.
I also recently finished "The Gargoyle" By Andrew Davidson... I gave it a read mainly based on my friend's review, which began "The Gargoyle is a crazy Anne Rice-like romp into mad crazy love, history, mental illness, immortality, obsession, Dante's Inferno and Hell..." I have a feeling I'll be rereading it again and placing it on my list of favorite novels shortly :) | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 11:11:48 PM | | I agree with LhiannanShee. The Gargoyle hooked me within the first 2 pages. It's definitely one of my faves of all time. | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 8:31:35 AM | | Ms. Sunshine, is Into thin air the one that makes Anatoli Boukreev out to be a hero? If it is I loved that book. There was another on that made him out to be a coward that would not help the people stranded on the mountain. That one was a pile of rubbish. Anatoli Boukreev not only saved many people that night, but he did it at great risk to himself. He even went back up the mountain without oxygen to save time. The man is a true hero. | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 8:43:47 AM | Kind of surprised no one mentioned Life of Pi.
It did get a little bit silly, but I never saw that ending coming. Great finish.
And the part where the boy is trying to decide which religion to adopt is hilarious.
I just heard his (Yann Martel) second book should be released next year.
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Posted: 11/5/2009 8:47:23 AM | You know backcountry..it has been a while since I read it, but if I can recall, I just don't remember him making anyone out to be a hero..or a coward. I find him to be more of a factual type writer. I think that is what I like about his stuff. He tells a story with just the facts of what happened.
It's the only one I read about that climb, and there was a film or documentary about it as well. The book was better.
That was just an amazing book! I should read it again. The things that people will do! Actually anything on Everest climbs catches my eye. I just don't get why someone would put themselves in such harms way? | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 8:56:01 AM | Another good life experience book is "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson. It's about him and a buddy walking the Appalachian trail – a 3,500km trail that cuts through 14 states in the Eastern United States.
Ever since reading that book, I've wanted to walk the West Coast Trail (a much shorter trail on the western coast of Vancouver Island) but have yet to get around to it. | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 12:42:03 PM | Oh yes, it's been years since Life of Pi, but I enjoyed it very much. Oh, that nasty tiger...
Thinking back, one book that I read a long time ago that made a big impression on me is A Flower for Algernon. I loved that book! | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 4:36:24 PM | | Rather, the west cost trail is shorter, but man it is not for a new hiker. A friend of mine (ex back country guide) did it and said it was one of the toughest he has done. But it is very worth it. I am thinking within the next 2 years I am going to give it a shot myself. Another good book is " A wolverine is eating my leg". It is lots of short stories about being in the backcountry, hiking, camping and such. Very funny. | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 6:11:28 PM | ^^^
Yes, I've been "warned" for lack of a better word, of the WTC... or at least properly advised not to take it lightly. | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 7:19:01 PM | | Yeah, it is a tough one. But man the photos he brought back were beyond awesome. If I could take great photos I would make a coffee table book out of a trip on the WCT. Oh, another great book I read a while back was "The fall of Baghdad". Great book about the authors experience during the days leading up to and just after the fall of the city. | |
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