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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 02:55 AM
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Old Yeller Savage Sam All The Right Stuff Playing for Pizza One Drop (Couldn't believe how intrigued I was by this story) The Heart of Everything That Is Dutch Lone Survivor
Just a few that come to mind. I haven't read a book in a year. I have 3-4 I should start.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 02:56 AM
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I havnt been reading long enough to get a vote. Im about to lie down and do a few pages of Pike now. I usually only watch TV when I eat at home, which isnt often. My TV just messed up so I read while I ate today. That was a first I think so maybe Ill catch up to some of yall if I dont fix the TV.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 03:03 AM
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 03:07 AM
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Dr Roemer’s journey through a wild infant Texas is fascinating and beautifully remarkable. He describes in detail the land, the people’s, their dress and customs, the plants and animals, and the politics. It is truly an amazing book. My family immigrated to Texas from Germany during this time and through his writings I can “see” what they encountered as the settled here. Great book!
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 03:17 AM
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[quote=Erny]My personal favorite is Hemingway’s The Green Hills of Africa. Don’t know why, but I just really love that book. Hemingway can describe a landscape in two sentences using third grade words, in perfect clarity. Ruark was better regarding hunting in Africa. Hemingway could distill a sentence better than anyone, no doubt. I enjoy Ruark, but I find his works to be very self aggrandizing.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 03:26 AM
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[quote=Erny]My personal favorite is Hemingway’s The Green Hills of Africa. Don’t know why, but I just really love that book. Hemingway can describe a landscape in two sentences using third grade words, in perfect clarity. Ruark was better regarding hunting in Africa. Hemingway could distill a sentence better than anyone, no doubt. I enjoy Ruark, but I find his works to be very self aggrandizing. Papa wasn't exactly humble.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 03:28 AM
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lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true Mainstream news might be fun to watch
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 03:34 AM
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Crime and Punishment or the Count of Monte Cristo
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 03:42 AM
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Where the red fern grows. Yup
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 03:55 AM
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Dang lots of great books in this thread.
To be determined
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 04:01 AM
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Point of Impact Stephen Hunter Without Remorse Tom Clancy
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 04:02 AM
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What would you say is the best book you ever read? Honestly, I’ve been thinking about it, and I don’t yet have the final answer. It might be The Lord of the Rings. I’ve read sooooo many books over so many years, so it’s hard to decide, but I have read the Lord of the Rings 3 times. Maybe Silence of the Lamb. id rather read the bible before reading some satanic story. What do you think of Narnia?
To be determined
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 04:31 AM
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Shoot. Eat. Repeat.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 04:53 AM
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Where the red fern grows. Yup x2
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 08:43 AM
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Where the red fern grows. It's been a long time since I've calmed down and read a book.... but this book, The Land Before Time, and a few others always stuck with me as a kid. I remember laying in bed, reading and actually getting into the book. Feeling the words that were printed on paper and putting myself there in my imagination.. At some point, I guess other things in my life took precedent over reading books. I'm older now, maybe I should give book reading another try. I'm 43 and still have 20/20 vision, why not.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 10:10 AM
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Bury my heart at wounded knee
My side of the mountain......the original book.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 10:44 AM
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Yertle the Turtle Narrow Escapes and Wilderness Adventures Daniel Boone - The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer Trail Dust and Saddle Leather Of Mice and Men Time Life Old West Series Time Life Year in Pictures Series
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 12:06 PM
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 12:31 PM
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Call of the Wild... Jack London
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 01:01 PM
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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 01:23 PM
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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A newer great one is, "Where the Crawdads Sing." It was on the best sellers list for over two years. I read it twice.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 01:59 PM
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Being an avid reader, it's hard to have a favorite. There are books that should be read by our younger people about what devotion, sacrifice, and loyalty really are. Not only to country, family, and friends but to themselves. Non-fiction Blackhawk Down, Spearhead, an American tank gunners story. (Really good book). Red Platoon, Empire of the Summer Moon, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, American Sniper, Marine Sniper. I know there's lots I have left off. Fiction Anything by Loius L'Amour, Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn (RIP), Jeff Shahara, Frederick Forsythe, Brad Taylor, Brad Thor, Stephen Hunter, etc.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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Fiction or Non Fiction?
non-fiction....best book was "think big and kick [censored]" by Donald J. Trump. I can honestly say it was life changing. Read it in 2006.
Some other great non-fiction books were "Empire of the Summer Moon, The International Hunter and No Angel.
Robert Ruark, to me, at least when he wrote "use enough gun" was largely a fraud. It was his first trip to Africa. Its regarded as one of the "must reads" of the African Hunting Topic but the real hero of the book was Henry Selby. Its a well written book and humerous for sure, but I don't think its "required reading" on the subject of African Hunting. Death in the Long Grass imo is a much better book on the topic.
Fiction, I always liked Call of the Wild, Hatchet and Mr. Tuckett. I don't read non fiction anymore but those were great books. Hatchet in particular.
I could never get behind "Where the Red Fern Grows " because the idea that a kid is running behind a coon hound chopping down trees that hold a coon is preposterous. And his mom won't let him have a gun until he is 21? Kids in that era were going to war at 16 and 17 and he can't get off his mama's teet until well after he is legally an adult? Gimme a break.
I felt the same way about the book "Shiloh"
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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The Art of Racing in the Rain The Lords of Discipline
They both tie for me.
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