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Need a good book or two #8644238 07/19/22 03:22 PM
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to read. With this heat I have been reading about four hours a day and need to go to the library to get some new ones to read. Any suggestions on something that is not too heavy reading.

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Just finished one and started another, really good reads.

1. Against All Odds, by Alex Kershaw- great book about heroism and the toll it takes

2. Fighter Pilot, the memoirs of Robin Olds- by his daughter


Well worth the read

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Anything by Robert B Parker. Lots of them are series so be careful to start at the beginning(although they can stand alone). I would suggest his series on Cole and Hitch.


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Billy Summers by Stephen King. Not his usual super natural work. I really enjoyed it.


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My all time #1:The Whisper of the River by Ferol Sams. #2: The House of God, (no, not a religious book), by Samuel Shem.
If you really want to spend some time, the In Death series of murder mysteries by J.D. Robb are great, I recently finished #50.


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My two favorites are

Unintended consequences by John Ross. You won't find it at a library.

Night angel trilogy by Brent weeks

A lighter read that's really good is
October sky/ rocket boys by homer Hickham


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Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Old but it’s always been one of my favorites.

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Since this is a hunting forum, try "Death in the Long Grass," by Peter Hathaway Capstick. If it don't give you the urge to load up and go on an African safari, nothing will.


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Plainsong, by Kent Haruf. Or anything else by him. Just books about simple, real, small-town life on the plains, but very easy reading. He could really write. He's passed now. 'Taught at the University of Kansas, or Kansas State I believe.

I've read all of Capstick. Great writer. Roundly considered a fraud among a lot of African PHs. bolt


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Some good old timers - the Travis McGee Series by John D. MacDonald.


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The Operator by Robert O'Neill


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I just finished scars and stripes, about to read “the coddling of the American mind”


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I like the Blanco County mysteries by Ben Rehder.


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My 9 years with the Indians is a classic - all in Texas - paperback on amazon is low cost


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They Made Their Own Law: Stories of Bolivar Peninsula Paperback – October 19, 2000
by Melanie Wiggins (Author)

If you have any interest in the Peninsula or the Godfathers of Crystal Beach.

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Water Ship Down by Richard Adams...riveting, awesome!

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" "John Selman, Gunfighter"

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If you like books about Texas in the early days, try. "Now You Hear My Horn". By James Wilson Nichols. A bit hard to find but pretty interesting.



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Here's one I just remembered. He's a Texas writer to top it off.

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Never-Rained-Elmer-Kelton/dp/0765360586


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Originally Posted by bagster
Here's one I just remembered. He's a Texas writer to top it off.

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Never-Rained-Elmer-Kelton/dp/0765360586



I ain't knocking your choice, of reading material....
But, I tried twice to read that book... And it literally put me to sleep..
Does anything ever happen ???

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Six years with the Texas Rangers - James B Gillett

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Here's one I just remembered. He's a Texas writer to top it off.

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Never-Rained-Elmer-Kelton/dp/0765360586



I ain't knocking your choice, of reading material....
But, I tried twice to read that book... And it literally put me to sleep..
Does anything ever happen ???


I'll admit the book is rather "dry." It's more of a book for history buffs.


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Red Platoon - then watch the movie of the same name and the Outpost movie

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I’ve read all but one of Keltons books. Probably the most realistic writer of early Texas I’ve read. I think “The time it never rained” is a dang good, but heartbreaking, chronicle of the dependency of farmers and ranchers on life giving rain.


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