erm Road Less Travelled? Trying to get in touch with the feminine bear within are we? 😉
I’m an A.C.Clarke fan. The first SF book I read was “Childhood’s End”.
Below the Salt [Hardcover]
Thomas B. Costain
I read it at 13, 21, mid – 30s and several other times – a wonderful yarn. Amazon has it.
As far as I know, she’s still going strong. She’s only a year older than me. 🙄
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.
Oh, er, well-you look a lot younger, Bearsy!
Feminine side? – you’d be amazed, Ferret, at how much one picks up when one’s intended partner is a New Age philosopher. Don’t worry, she’s better now. 🙂
Bearsy 🙂
Possibly I do, Araminta, but then I haven’t had her, um, “wealth of experience”, shall we say?
Excellent book, but the follow ups by his son and Kevin Anderson I think are better than Herberts follow ups.
Load and loads more, Nym, but an interesting selection.
This could go on for ever.
I think we had a brief conversation about this on MyT, Rick. I loved the whole Dune series, and have read books many times, but the first was the best, as is usually the case. I haven’t read the follow-ups so I have a treat in store when I can track them down. Thanks. 🙂
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How strange, I posted and then it disappeared. Apologies if another post similar to this reappears ….
Tom Clancy – Red Storm Rising
It’s still there, in draft, Pseu. Just sitting there waiting for Mummy to publish it! 😀
Oo-er – I enjoy Clancy, but you can’t call it literature, can you? 🙄
Why isn’t there a snooty, nose-in-air, smiley we can use?
Puhleeeeze Bearsy,
RSR is without doubt Clancys finest work. To me it outshines nearly everything on that noncy BBC list of earlier. 🙂
While I’m at it I would like to put forward Stephen King – Christine for consideration.
Read it! 😎
I don’t rate Clancy either. 😦
Morning, Nym.
“Clockers” by Richard Price.
Talking of Smiley, don’t forget George – Tinker, Tailor, etc.
“The French Lieutenant’s Woman” – John Fowles and “The Magus” was pretty good too!
Evelyn Waugh – Sword of Honour gets my vote.
Absolutely Zen, I agree!! (John le Carré, that is.)
How about “Fear of Flying” by Erica Jong? 😀
Road less Travelled?
The Prophet?
Blimey Bearsy, I haven’t thought about Erica Jong for years. Strange woman, I met her once: bit of a nutter, actually.
“The City and the Stars”, by far the best from A.C.Clarke.
“I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov.
But definitely NOT Fahrenheit 451 [Bradbury] or Starship Troopers [Heinlein].
… but a rich nutter, nicht war?
“The moon’s a balloon” by David Niven.
Is she still alive?
Ooh Bearsy that reminds me,
Julian May – Rampant Worlds Trilogy
erm Road Less Travelled? Trying to get in touch with the feminine bear within are we? 😉
I’m an A.C.Clarke fan. The first SF book I read was “Childhood’s End”.
Below the Salt [Hardcover]
Thomas B. Costain
I read it at 13, 21, mid – 30s and several other times – a wonderful yarn. Amazon has it.
As far as I know, she’s still going strong. She’s only a year older than me. 🙄
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.
Oh, er, well-you look a lot younger, Bearsy!
Feminine side? – you’d be amazed, Ferret, at how much one picks up when one’s intended partner is a New Age philosopher. Don’t worry, she’s better now. 🙂
Bearsy 🙂
Possibly I do, Araminta, but then I haven’t had her, um, “wealth of experience”, shall we say?
I wouldn’t mind the experience of her wealth. 😉
“Dune” by Frank Herbert.
I shall add Barbara Kingsolver ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
I like Niven’s The Moon’s a Balloon too…
Otherland – Tadd Williams
A big old set of books but a guaranteed re-reader.
How about Lady Chatterley’s Brother? That’s from Lawrence’s gay period.
“Cancer Ward” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. A tough read, but powerful stuff.
OK Bearsy, thats it! I’m starting to worry now. 😉
How about “Colostomy! It’s Not my Bag” by I.P. Freely?
Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” are absolutely essential reading…I doubt very much if anyone on the BBC panel would have done so!
Tee hee, Ferret. 👿
And Quiet Flows the Don – Sholokov.
The Sea, John Banville
Any more?
Excellent book, but the follow ups by his son and Kevin Anderson I think are better than Herberts follow ups.
Load and loads more, Nym, but an interesting selection.
This could go on for ever.
I think we had a brief conversation about this on MyT, Rick. I loved the whole Dune series, and have read books many times, but the first was the best, as is usually the case. I haven’t read the follow-ups so I have a treat in store when I can track them down. Thanks. 🙂
“the books”