Re: Best books you have read
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The Holy Bible, KJV
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Re: Best books you have read
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The Lord Of The Rings- J. R. R. Tolkien
We the living- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
We were the lucky ones- Georgia Hunter
Before we were yours- Lisa Wingate
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Re: Best books you have read
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I've never read that. I have read The Screwtape Letters. Excellent book. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and The Holy War are both excellent books most Christian folks have never read, but should.
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Re: Best books you have read
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Interesting outdoors books - Just to go off grid a little for some books many may not have heard of.
The Golden Spruce - True story. Exceptional outdoorsman and logger gone made cuts down a sacred tree in BC Canada to prove a point about deforestation then disappears into the bush. One note on this book, it can be dry, it details the west coast logging history and interactions with natives historically and so forth. But the story is fascination. And recent (1997).
A Stranger in the Woods - Hermit is caught and imprisoned after decades of living alone in the woods and not speaking, living off of scrounging and stealing from cottagers, he was a legend. Now he's in jail and a fella wrote a book about him. It's interesting. Would be great for younger groups too. Easy/quick read. (and a recent story, he's still in prison when i checked. He was only caught in the last 10 or 15 years i think). He walked into the bush as a young man and never came out until decades later when he was trapped and jailed. (If he was in a city he would never have been arrested fyi... You can only be homeless in cities, not woods...)
#1 Outdoors Book.... A Life in the Bush - by Roy Macgregor. I adore this book. Though it is Canadian centric, most every outdoorsman would love it. The author, his father and family were early/original settlers of the algonquin park region of ontario (Algonquin park is like 5000 square miles of wilderness'ish not far from Toronto). His father worked in lumber. It's hard to explain this book. It's basically the author telling his fathers life story, how it was like being the only people living in the park back then.More logging and trapping history throughout the book as they tell the story of the region and its settlement, disasters (fires) etc.... It's the best version of explaining what my life has sort of looked at that i've ever seen. If you've ever watched "Alone in the Wilderness" the Dick Proenneke (SP?) where he goes to the bush and builds his own cabin. I'd say A Life in the Bush should be on the shelf next to that piece of work. They have the same type of "feel" to them. If you liked one, you'll like the other. **Some incredible small stories in there....
The Sisters Brothers - This is a great new/modern novel, and it's a western!!! "This novel follows two brothers, Eli and Charlie Sisters, infamous assassins sent on an errand to kill Hermann Kermit Warm, an ingenious (and, as it turns out, extremely likable) man, who is accused of stealing from their boss, a fearsome figure named the Commodore." Great fun book. It's an adventure, a western, shootouts, gold mining, going west, etc.... (It was recently made into a movie that wasn't very successful and i haven't seen, with joaquin phoenix, john c reilly and jake gylenhall..)
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Re: Best books you have read
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Divine Comedy by Dante, while I think technically a poem
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Re: Best books you have read
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"Sacred Marriage" by Gary Thomas Read this book this year. Crazy worthy. Wish they had it when I got married. Would have made a world of difference along the way. My Mrs. really enjoyed it as well. We gave it as a true Christmas gift last year to all our married children.
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Re: Best books you have read
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I don't watch TV, I read instead, usually at least an hour each night before bed.
The best book I can remember reading recently is "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" by Fredrik Backman. Backman has written several novels and I've read most of them. He is sort of hit and miss but I guess not every novel can't be a great one.
His first novel, "A Man Called Ove" was a great one. "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" is his second novel and it is seriously one of the best books I read, simply excellent.
His two Beartown books are good but not on the same level.
One of my all-time favorite books is "The Old Man and the Boy" by Robert Ruark.
For the last year I've been reading Lee Child's Jack Reacher series in order. I think there are about two dozen written from 1997 to present and I'm about two-thirds of the way through. They are good, entertaining books.
It may not be a popular opinion here but I don't remember reading any novel that made the New York Times Best Seller list that I didn't enjoy. It is a great source for suggested reading.
Eh...wot?
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