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For sheer entertainment and fun; Try reading Terry Pratchett's disc world collection !!
Now you have me thinking! Brains Benton and Rick Brant mystery novels!First grownup book i read was richard connell's the most dangerous game, after hearing orson welles do the radio version of it. Ten years old. Had already read all the encyclopedia browns and vintage hardy boys (what a gang of idiots!) And moved on to agatha christie, mary stewart, rex stout, and the odd mickey spillane. Then alistair mclain, and clive cussler, among heinlein, smith, del rey, asimov, clarke, l'amour, then dick francis, and hillerman. Louis l'amour tricked me into picking up every ambler written....
Dont recall benton, but read brant when i found them.Now you have me thinking! Brains Benton and Rick Brant mystery novels!
The Most Dangerous Game was my first also book. I've never forgotten it. I just watched the original movie again a few months ago, starring a young Joel McCrea and Fay Wray, 1932. The biggest book I tackled was Atlas Shrugged. Very prophetic in today's times.First grownup book i read was richard connell's the most dangerous game, after hearing orson welles do the radio version of it. Ten years old. Had already read all the encyclopedia browns and vintage hardy boys (what a gang of idiots!) And moved on to agatha christie, mary stewart, rex stout, and the odd mickey spillane. Then alistair mclain, and clive cussler, among heinlein, smith, del rey, asimov, clarke, l'amour, then dick francis, and hillerman. Louis l'amour tricked me into picking up every ambler written....
Not trying to be a smarty pants, I believe the female lead was Catherine Hepburn not Audrey.The favorites of my youth: Leatherstocking Tales (edited: James Fenimore Cooper). The Horatio Hornblower series of books (British navy in the 1700s). And a series about salvage operations in the Red Sea and North Africa during WW II.
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The Leatherstocking Tales, all written by Cooper between 1823 and 1841, include: The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841). Two of those Cooper novels were made into movies: "The Last of the Mohicans" (starring Daniel Day-Lewis), and "The Deerslayer," starring Lex Barker, Rita Moreno and Forrest Tucker.
The 17-volume Hornblower series of books were written by C S Forester. Forester wrote over 40 other fiction and non-fiction books, the most well-known work being, "The African Queen," which was made into the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Audre Hepburn, and another novel about the WW II search-and-destroy actions of the British Navy which was the basis for the movie entitled, "Sink the Bismarck." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Forester
The author of the salvage operations books was Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg. He wrote numerous books on his active duty tasks both in the Red Sea (early in WW II) and thereafter. In 1944, Ellsberg was sent to England in time for the Normandy Invasion, where he was instrumental in setting up the Mulberry harbour off the Normandy Beach. His 1931 book on WW I submarine operations entitled "Pig Boats" was the basis for the movie "Hell Below" starring Robert Montgomery, Robert Young and Walter Huston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ellsberg
My old joke is, i scan at the rate other people skim.I grew up reading ALL the Science Fiction writers and include the Sci-Fi monthly magazines too ! Read a bunch of westerns, WW2 books etc etc. Not to brag but my reading speed is 1000 wpm with about a 99% understanding and retention. Was loads of fun in high school and college, through the text books before even the first quarter !
However, ya really wanta scare some people, tell them to read Rainbow Six; by tom clancy back in 1998, rather a while before the wuhani moonbat flu.Great recommendations posted by one and all...
I just finished reading a book I picked up at the Sparks Library freebie book shelves. It is called Act of Treason by Vince Flynn. It is an advance uncorrected proof. It has a few spelling errors, but not much to detract from the main plot. Flynn has written at least seven other books and possibly more since this one was copyrighted in 2006. It involves politicals, an assasination, false identities which involves, Swisss bankers and Bosnian and Russian KGB, with several twists and turns. I highly recommend this maze of intrigue.