A place to list recommended books/stories, share opinions and reviews. Broad from Technical Manuals, Short Stories to Novels and Science Fiction. Pretty much anything that is worth reading. Also anything better you can think up in this regard.

I'll start off with;
The Great Gatsby

I never read it, but the movie was good.

The Giving Tree was good, makes me cry every time.

Aliens books, not just the movies but there are several other stories as well. They are probably not the best books in the world but I found them enjoyable.

Steven Baxters - The time ships It's based on H.G. Wells "the time machine" and was quite good Only its more modern and bizzare

Timothy Powers - The Anubis Gates My all time favorite. Magic , science, curses , clones, good and evil You name it, its got it Even a love story

Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

I have read every book by Robert B.Parker ( Spencer for hire Novels) and he has started 2 new series a few years ago.

I have boxes and boxes filled with books I have read and kept for 22 years.
I have read many DOC Savage books which is an old series and hard to find the books.
An excellent read is the Autobiography of Chuck Yeager, crazy what he got away with .

Count of Monte Cristo - Saw the movie and loved it. I haven't read the book yet, but will do so in a few days. Any differences? Better/worse? Also; Anyone else here love Mark Twain?

Its been over 20 years since i read them , and dont remember alot of the story lines.

Thanks I'll look into that link.

Did you ever read any of the Matt helm series Trall?( forgot the authors name)
They made a movie of one Matt Helm book called Murderers Row , Dean Martin played Matt Helm , and had a gun that when you pulled the trigger it had like a 5 second delay till it fired, it was like james bond, he had alot of gadgets.

Donald Hamilton
He also wrote some good westerns
The movie sucked like the Travis Mcgee movie
Books by John D MacDonald

They actually made more then 1 Matt Helm movie with Dean Martin I think. Looking on Google, I found references to "Murderer's Row" and another one called "The Silencers"

I never got in to Matt Helm, but I did like the Destroyer series alot Even had a whole bag of them here until I came down one day and they all were damp and waterlogged from water in the basement

By the way, those doc savage books are the ones that were originally in the pulp mags during the 40s before bantam books cleaned them up and republished them so don't be surprised if you read some stuff that is not politically correct in them. It is the only way the site can stay legal and have them online I am guessing.

I read the bantom book reprints of doc savage as well as the omnibus editions when they printed those

I even had a comic where doc met the fantastic four at one time when I was in the military

I remember Matt Helm's 5 second gun too as well as his belt that turned in to a sword when he added water to it Or soemthing like that, it became super stiff with water

Andrew Vachss..Burke novels I like also

The Burke Novels. Burke a career criminal raised by a corrupt and abusive child care and foster are system. Now an adult with a dysfunctional attitude
Well written. Thinker Spenser without the love. And with some social commentary. Think Upton Sinclair

Don't anybody think I'm crazy-A Democrat reading
A book by Pat Buchanan,while I don't agree with
all he writes,I never do agree with everything
anybody says. "Where the Right Went Wrong" It
is a good read.

Louie Lamore (?spelling) westerns are all good!

The Raven

Which Raven?
The Raven : A Biography of Sam Houston -- by Marquis James

The Raven And Other Poems -- by Edgar Allan Poe

Once An Eagle and Lucifere's Hammer