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GorfZaplen posted:The Wingman series by Mack Maloney, an ace fighter pilot fights against neo-nazis in a post-apocalyptic war torn United States. Several of the books have explicit anti-racist themes where he fights against the KKK (who now have fighter jets too). The author is pretty open about his politics being different than most men's fiction writers although his books are still pretty hoo-rah america and military for dads of that stripe. I'd say these lean more into men's pulp than technothriller territory though! One of the Wingman books involves an invasion from a literal asiatic horde.
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You aren't supposed to be laughing at it.
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If you read it as comedic, you are reading it wrong.
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Doom Mathematic posted:I am looking for a book I could give to a six-year-old (reads at the level of an eight-year-old) son of a friend of mine for his birthday. His parents say "genre of your choice" and I'm veering toward science fiction but I don't have any idea what's out there. I also know children's books can be all over the place in quality. So, just like a fistful of recommendations I can peruse would be good? Thank you in advance. This is likely a little bit on the advanced side for that age, but might work. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ILKI02Q/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 It is a Sci-Fi retelling of Captains Courageous.
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regulargonzalez posted:The Great Train Robbery is fantastic, arguably Crichton's best work. Based on a true story and all that. I remember at least one part of that book that is not fantastic at all.
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MockingQuantum posted:Can you expand on this, maybe in a spoiler? I probably won't ever read it but if there's something really rough or lovely in the book I might warn her away from that one. Sorry, I haven't opened this thread in a bit. Chapter 19 of The Great Train Robbery involves obtaining an important key by sending someone to seduce the person carrying it. The girl sent is 12 years old, and this is rather played up in the narration.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Thread, I want zombie survival novels. Zombie books. Books about zombies. Not a novel, but Stephen King has a short story that takes place in a classic zombie apocalypse - Home Delivery, found in Nightmares and Dreamscapes
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Bucky Fullminster posted:Just finished reading His Dark Materials / Book Of Dust to the kids, what's something good we can dive into next? They're 10 and 8 but enjoy a lot. Done Harry Potter and Narnia too. At that age the Sherlock Holmes stories might be a good fit - most can be read in an evening, but they might still be a bit of a high bar for independent reading.
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Skippy McPants posted:Specifically, I want to find the best(?) versions of the big three Abrahamic texts: Torah, Bible, and Koran. Sounds like you might want to look into works like The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture and A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book (both of which have been well received. by religious institutions, they're not deliberately iconoclastic)
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Paperhouse posted:any other good novels that are written partly or entirely as conversations happening on an internet message board? I thought it was a fascinating way to tell a mystery story Diane Duane's Spock's World has some portions written on the Enterprise's internal BBS.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I'm really trying to get my dad to read books. He's nearing retirement and needs something to do. One of the few books he's read in recent years was non-fiction about a sailing race around the antarctic circle. So, something like that, nautical adventure books are what I'm looking for. Probably gotta be non-fiction, but maybe a novel if it's really good. Hard to go wrong with the classic Bounty trilogy by Nordhoff.. The middle book, Men Against The Sea, in particular sounds fitting.
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tuyop posted:
Both this and the sequel (Starquake) are on the short side as well, so it is a nice selection for a club format.
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