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Favorite Authors?

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I was just wondering what kind of stuff all of you read.

I am a Hemingway fan personally.
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Awww man. I'm a reader.

Robert E. Howard
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Evan Evans
Louis L'Amour
Doc Savage
Mac Bolan

I grew up on those books.

Robert B. Parker - Spenser
John D. McDonald - Travis McGee
Hemingway is cool (water water everywhere and not a drop to drink)

Shit, I read a lot of stuff. Gotten into military stuff lately. Some fantastic reading there. SPECOP books are always great.

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Ranger Bell,
I will check out some of the authors that you like. There is another author out there, that does a pretty good job.

His name is Tim O'Brian. He wrote a book called "Things They Carried." It is kick ass. I had to read it for an advanced literature class....I thought that it would suck, but that book was really awesome.

He was in Vietnam....Leg....but his writing seems to capture the thoughts of soldiers really well.

I went to school for 2 years at Southwest Texas State, and he was a guest writer there. I can't remember the label that he carried, but he had an office there, and spent the winters writing on campus. He comes from Minnesota.


Check it out, it is hard to put it down though once you get started.
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Not a fan of any specific author but my favorite novel is All Quiet on the Western Front. YEAH MUTHER FUCKERS, MY CRO-MAGNON ASS CAN READ!
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Frederick Forsyth; particularly "Day of the Jackal" (1971). He's the old-school originator of the spy/assassin novel....way before Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum.
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When I can remember where I put my glasses:
Ann Rice
Louis L'Amour
J.K. Rowling
Tom Clancy
Col. Black

All the LRRP books
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I read everything I can put my hands on. Just read "The Jerico Sanction" by Oliver North....pretty decent fiction. Not only can the boy fight and stand by his President...half decent writer. Clive Cussler puts out a good read. Steven Coonts, Larry McMurtry, all good. Louis Lamour all time best ever.
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David Gemmell, anything he writes
G.R.R. Martin, the series starting with "Game of Thrones
Steven Brust, anything with Vlad in it
Raymond E. Feist
Terry Brooks

Gemmell is one of the best story tellers out there. I those of you that rear Robert E Howard will like him.

Martin is way up there, very indept book, I think in time it will be ranked up there along with Lord of the Rings.

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Wendell Berry is my favorite author. He writes a lot about the human experience in America. He's from Kentucky. Not a damned thing to do with the military.
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I read voraciously, about 2-3 books a month. Its mostly military history, or science fiction. Some of my favorite authors include:

David Drake
Robert Heinlein
Jerry Pournelle
Larry Niven
Dale Brown
Harold Coyle
Stephen Coonts
W.E.B. Griffin
Tom Clancy
Stephen Ambrose
Douglas Adams
Frank Herbert
Orson Scott Card

I'm currently reading a book called Airborne: A Combat History of America's Airborne Forces. I recently finished reading The Yom Kippur War, The Filthy Thirteen, Currahee!, Combat Jump, Behind Hitler's Lines, The Redliners, We Were Soldiers, In the Company of Heroes, and have The Battle for Mogadishu, and The Guts to Try on deck.
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Margaret Atwood
George Elliot
Michael Chabon
Michael Oren
Robert Heinlein
Neal Stephenson
Stephen Ambrose
Bernard Lewis
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Steven Pressfield
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Stephen Ambrose
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Post by VAK »

I would be posting all day...

I think Louis Lamour is without doubt the all time greatest author. Harold Coyle and I talked when he and I were both still AD while he was doing the Tam Yankee Series, I always thought his were pretty good, but I am probably bias there. And Tom Clancy, one of the most over-rated egotistical pricks. (Started out great and was on a great run, but let it go to his head). I also like Ollie North, Ralph Peters, Kittfield and a couple of Woodward's books. Just finished the "Battle of Mogidishu" the other day and felt like someone punched me in the stomach as I was reading it and still couldn't put it down for a second, so that's a good one if anyone's looking. I have pretty much been consuming anything on the topic of terrorism of late. And anything to do with History.


But then, I have way too much time on my hands to read.

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Louie LaMour
Shelby Foote
Tom Clancy
Doyle Brunson
Dr. Suess
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