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IBroughttheFunk posted:I do, but I am still happy to hear any title(s) that you want to suggest. I liked Russka and I think it’s one of maybe two of Edward Rutherfurd’s stuff that still has energy in the formula.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Red Storm Rising is a pretty great book too. Really captures the 80's Cold War flashpoint vibe. Sarern posted:My one weird trick for Clancy is to stop after Clear and Present Danger. That's still the one I like best from early Clancy, I feel it did the best job at the things he was good at Chuck Buried Treasure posted:The general rule of thumb in my opinion at least is that Clancy was good when he was writing during the Cold War. Once the Soviet Union fell things get real iffy I took Rainbow Six with me on a post-high school trip to Europe and I remember thoroughly enjoying it, though I vaguely recall the storyline might not hold up all these years later.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:I took Rainbow Six with me on a post-high school trip to Europe and I remember thoroughly enjoying it, though I vaguely recall the storyline might not hold up all these years later. Rainbow Six is off-the-rails insane and I still have a copy somewhere for that reason. I think that is the most recent Clancy book I actually kept. Maybe it seemed more plausible at the time, but the antagonists are a conspiracy of radical environmentalists trying to kill almost all of humankind with an engineered virus. It's a 90s conservative's fever dream.
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Yeah, it’s delightful.
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Sarern posted:Rainbow Six is off-the-rails insane and I still have a copy somewhere for that reason. I think that is the most recent Clancy book I actually kept. A screwup at a Chinese lab releasing a seriously annoying but not species ending virus wouldn't have provided compelling shoot-people-in-the-face action.
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Sarern posted:Rainbow Six is off-the-rails insane and I still have a copy somewhere for that reason. I think that is the most recent Clancy book I actually kept. Its pretty lol, yeah. Best part of the novel was Popov playing everyone and then getting away free.
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recommend me a good book to read on a camping trip. maybe some fantasy or something else that would be enhanced by reading it outdoors
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NotNut posted:recommend me a good book to read on a camping trip. maybe some fantasy or something else that would be enhanced by reading it outdoors The Ritual by Adam Neville, but just the first half.
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NotNut posted:recommend me a good book to read on a camping trip. maybe some fantasy or something else that would be enhanced by reading it outdoors Deliverance :trollface:
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NotNut posted:recommend me a good book to read on a camping trip. maybe some fantasy or something else that would be enhanced by reading it outdoors Naomi Novik is probably good for this. Uprooted, maybe. Semiosis will make you suspicious of plants, which is always good.
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NotNut posted:recommend me a good book to read on a camping trip. maybe some fantasy or something else that would be enhanced by reading it outdoors Its gotta be Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer!!
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buffalo all day posted:Its gotta be Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer!! This was my first impulse as well but it’s not fantasy. I think you should read it tho.
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NotNut posted:recommend me a good book to read on a camping trip. maybe some fantasy or something else that would be enhanced by reading it outdoors To Build a Fire best on a winter camping trip
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NotNut posted:recommend me a good book to read on a camping trip. maybe some fantasy or something else that would be enhanced by reading it outdoors Good nature or travel writer about the area you're in. Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, maybe.
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NotNut posted:recommend me a good book to read on a camping trip. maybe some fantasy or something else that would be enhanced by reading it outdoors The Songs of Trees by David George Haskell (nonfiction) Buzz, Sting, Bite by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson (all about insects  )
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a few of these suggestions are a little too epic. let me add the stipulations that if it's fiction it needs to have a happy or neutral ending and be popular or at least popular at the time it was written
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NotNut posted:a few of these suggestions are a little too epic. let me add the stipulations that if it's fiction it needs to have a happy or neutral ending and be popular or at least popular at the time it was written 2 more reasons to pick Annihilation! He literally was inspired to write it by going on long outdoor hikes in NW Florida.
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Any good books on the history of Brazil?
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NotNut posted:recommend me a good book to read on a camping trip. maybe some fantasy or something else that would be enhanced by reading it outdoors Drew Magary's The Hike or Jordan Fisher Smith's Nature Noir, although I will say that neither is totally uplifting.
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tuyop posted:I liked Russka and I think it’s one of maybe two of Edward Rutherfurd’s stuff that still has energy in the formula. On the to-read itinerary, thanks! Would you recommend any other of Rutherford's books in general? I remember enjoying New York, when I read it several years ago, but I haven't tried to tackle any of his other works since then.
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IBroughttheFunk posted:On the to-read itinerary, thanks! Would you recommend any other of Rutherford's books in general? I remember enjoying New York, when I read it several years ago, but I haven't tried to tackle any of his other works since then. Sarum was also really good, but I bounced hard off of New York and London. In the same vein, Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett is also good!
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I think there used to be a general mythology thread somewhere but I can’t find it. I’m looking for recommendations on books of Celtic mythology stories and books of fairy tales. They don’t have to be real folk tales-if someone is writing brand new awesome fairy tales (Susannah Clarke) I would love to know about them. If there is like a Neil Gaiman’s ‘Norse Mythology’ but for Celtic stuff that would be awesome. I want stories that are good to read by themselves, not academic books about the mythology if that makes sense. Thanks!
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I think there used to be a general mythology thread somewhere but I can’t find it. For new cool fairy tales, I'd suggest The Orphan's Tales by Catherynne Valente.
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For Irish mythology, I don't think you can go wrong with Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men and Cuchulain of Muirthemne.
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tuyop posted:Sarum was also really good, but I bounced hard off of New York and London. Thanks, will keep an eye out for Sarum! and very much agreed on Pillars of the Earth - I actually got around to it back in May and liked it. Although I'm still curiously hunting around for less Euro and American-centric historical nonfiction, I admit that I think I'm going to end up starting World Without End within the next few weeks.
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NotNut posted:a few of these suggestions are a little too epic. let me add the stipulations that if it's fiction it needs to have a happy or neutral ending and be popular or at least popular at the time it was written The Monkey Wrench Gang :P e. seriously how about Sometimes a Great Notion?
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I'm trying to broaden my horizons. Give me good poets, from any age
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm trying to broaden my horizons. Give me good poets, from any age Frederick Seidel Langston Hughes Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire Sylvia Plath Lawrence Ferlinghetti Ariana Reines John Ashbury Get some Norton Anthologies. If you want a good non-Norton anthology of American poets, get The Voice That Is Great Within Us.
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You've got a Skimbleshanks .gif below your av and you're not going to recommend TS Eliot? OP, read some TS Eliot and Emily Dickinson and ee cummings (and I'll second Hughes hard).
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funkybottoms posted:You've got a Skimbleshanks .gif below your av and you're not going to recommend TS Eliot? Yeah, these are good ones too. I just didn't want to name too many. Ogden Nash is another favorite who's very funny.
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm trying to broaden my horizons. Give me good poets, from any age Adelaide Crapsey. e: Martialis 
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm trying to broaden my horizons. Give me good poets, from any age everything Franchescanado mentioned plus Percy Bysshe Shelley, Frank O’Hara and T.S. Eliot
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Might wanna give Whitman a glimpse.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I think there used to be a general mythology thread somewhere but I can’t find it. Ciaran Carson's translation of The Tain is great and fun to read.
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Stringent posted:Might wanna give Whitman a glimpse. And if you like Whitman, take a look at Fernando Pessoa!
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm trying to broaden my horizons. Give me good poets, from any age Carmen Giménez Smith is so good. Marilyn Dumont is a big deal in Canada. In the vein of BLM, I think Donte Collins is pretty good.
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GorfZaplen posted:I'm trying to broaden my horizons. Give me good poets, from any age Are you starting from scratch without having read much poetry or do you have some poets you like but want to see what else is out there? FWIW most of the pretty recs you received are fine or whatever but poetry isn't just an acquired taste, it's an acquired language, and a lot of it is unbelievably boring (Eliot, Shelley etc) until you get enough of it under your belt to understand the stakes of what they were writing about. It's like listening to drink people argue about a sport you've never even seen, let alone played. So, get an anthology, and make sure that it demonstrates that it knows about more non-white poets than Langston Hughes.
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tuyop posted:
In a similar vein, Reginald Dwayne Betts' collection Felon
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IBroughttheFunk posted:In a similar vein, Reginald Dwayne Betts' collection Felon Thanks for this, I’ve definitely neglected American male BIPOC poetry and this book looks incredible.
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tuyop posted:Thanks for this, I’ve definitely neglected American male BIPOC poetry and this book looks incredible. Terrance Hayes,Lighthead
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