Left behind

I have like 10 hardcover John Grisham books if anyone wants to trade for something.

Three Years Among The Comanche
Narrative by Texas Ranger Nelson Lee

Speer Reloading Manual, Waiting to get Chris Kyle' AutoBio

Add me to the list of Cormac McCarthy fans. He is by far my favorite living author. I have read every one of his books, but Blood Meridian is my favorite McCarthy novel. In fact, Blood Meridian is my favorite book of all time. I think it is a must read for any fan of the Western genre.

Just finished Term limits by Vince Flynn. Such a great writer

Yeah, there is no denying the power and scope of Blood Meridian. But it is so utterly violent in a gnostic way that I always feel uneasy while reading it. And the Judge is so perverted and grandiose that I wonder if McCarthy uses him to represent the Devil, or just a humanized face of War and Violence in general.

I hunted for 21 years on a ranch that abutts Fort Griffin. Every time I drove through the restored "Flats", I always recalled the Kid's sodomized murder in the outhouse and the Judge's naked dancing in the saloon where the bear was just killed.

A strange but powerful book, for sure. I keep waiting for someone like Tommy Lee Jones or Billy Bob Thornton to try and make a movie from it.....

Blood Meridian will leave an impression on you for sure. It is not for the faint of heart, but few of McCarthy's novels are. I agree that Suttree is underrated as well. Child of God was less violent, but left me with a sick feeling after reading it.

chris kyle's book...GREAT

Cormac McCarthy writes very dark novels. I suspect that he is one messed up individual. If he's thinking what he's writing, he'll join Mindy pretty soon.

I just finished Two Years before the Mast. Written in 1837, I think. Very interesting. Then read Milo Afong's USMC sniper book. very interesting, but not that very intesting. Now reading Ann Rice's latest book. Pretty good so far. Next on rotation is Roll Me Over, a book by a combat infantryman in WWII. Then probably Inquisitor's Key by Jefferson Bass.

Don't read too much by Cormac McCarthy or you'll need a shrink and medication. You want a dark novel that's written far better, then read Cold Mountain. You won't forget that one for a while. It stays in your head.

I loved Cold Mountain, the book anyway. The movie was miscast.....the producer clearly hadn't read the book when he decided to have Jude Law play Inman, a guy who the author described as being a "ruffian and a lout". Pretty boy Law just didn't fill the bill. I see Russell Crowe in the role of Inman.

Nicole Kidman wasn't much better either.....maybe Renee Zellweger instead.

This is why I generally like books better than movies, perhaps?

I will second on the "Abridged" version of Atlas Shrugged. It's the only time I have ever read(listened to) an abridged version of anything, but I was happy I did. I don't agree with Ayn Rand's whole philosophy, but she was scary accurate on her prediction of what is happening in this country today.

Does reading posts on internet forums count?

I have been listening to the unabridged version of Atlas Shrugged. I listened to the abridged too. If you have the time the unabridged is better. 50 CD's though...


Oh and lots of school books.... ick.

Thanks for bumping this. Since I last posted I've read:
Call of the wild
The scarlet letter
1984
To kill a mockingbird
Journey to the center of the earth
Where the red fern grows
The picture of Dorian gray
Steppenwolf
Cannery row
Old yeller
A separate peace
The red badge of courage
Hunger games trilogy
and 3 or 4 travel books

Currently reading The Sea Wolf

currently "the talent code" by daniel coyle, very interesting and very malcolm gladwell-like, if you like his stuff.

To Kill a Mockingbird.
A Tale of Two Cities.
The False Prince.
Have read Divergent and Insurgent. Wonderful.

Newest one just arrived in the mail.

Another Rifle, Another Land - J.Y. Jones

Started American Sniper today.

Just finished:
Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John Maxwell

Starting now:
The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller

Just picked up; The Theory of Functions of Real Variables by Lawrence Graves.

Hope its a page turner!

Surely you aren't suggesting the members of this forum know how to read, are you? Don't you know that we're a group of illiterate savages with bones through our noses, eagerly awaiting the enlightenment dispensed by our intellectual superiors in New York and Seattle?

This illiterate savage is working on Volume 2 of Democracy in America. My previous book was, as you might expect, Volume 1 of Democracy in America. The one before that was Capital by Marx.

John Grady Cole pisses me off, who challenges a Mexican pimp to a knife fight ?
Why didn't he just shoot him ?
Still pissed about that

Summer Reading List Suggestions:

Unintended Consequences(if you can find a copy-MUST read)-John Ross
Point Of Impact-Stephen Hunter
Time To Hunt-Stephen Hunter
Black Light-Stephen Hunter
The Purification Ceremony-Mark Sullivan
The Old Man And The Boy-Robert Ruark
The Voice Of The Coyote-J. Frank Dobie
Coyote Hunting-Phil Simonski
Predator Calling With Gerry Blair-Gerry Blair

Just finished American Sniper, just picked up "No Easy Day" and "Service, A Navy Seal at War." Also have "Undaunted Courage"