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<blockquote data-quote="ragboy" data-source="post: 2315239" data-attributes="member: 4151"><p>Here's the shortlist of books I keep going back to: </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cormac McCarthy <em>Blood Meridian - </em>Absolutely the best book about the worst in human nature, ever. And you'll probably not find a more beautifully written book.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gabriel Garcia Marquez <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>- Like <em>Blood Meridian</em>, this book was so beautifully written (translated...I guess) that it gives me physical pain to read it. The first time I read it, I finished reading about 5 minutes before Desert Shield became Desert Storm and bullets started flying... A rather prophetic closing sentence in that situation:<br /> <br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alexandre Dumas <em>The Three Musketeers</em> - Definitive blockbuster adventure story with such a damn dark ending. I get chills every time I finish it. The group's friendship, I think, carries the story through its thousands and thousands of pages (with all the follow-ons... <em>Twenty Years After</em>, etc)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Frank Herbert <em>Dune - </em>This book was so perfect to me that I didn't even try to read any of the follow-ups. I was just afraid that it would wreck the whole mental state.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>Lord of the Rings</em> - Like others here, I pick it back up every couple of years.<br /> <em>Edit... </em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">James Clavell <em>Shogun</em> - Forgot this one. It's a guilty pleasure and probably looks weird up against all this 'literature.' Very immersive book. Probably one of the best 'normal guy in an alien environment' books I've read. I've read about four copies of this book into pieces and finally found a hard cover edition. My wife never understood why I disappeared from family life for a week while I was reading this...now she's reading it and I haven't seen her for a while... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></li> </ul><p>There are others, like Conan stories, Lankhmar novels, etc. that I pick back up from time to time, but never for the same reasons as the above books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ragboy, post: 2315239, member: 4151"] Here's the shortlist of books I keep going back to: [list] [*]Cormac McCarthy [i]Blood Meridian - [/i]Absolutely the best book about the worst in human nature, ever. And you'll probably not find a more beautifully written book. [*]Gabriel Garcia Marquez [i]One Hundred Years of Solitude[/i]- Like [i]Blood Meridian[/i], this book was so beautifully written (translated...I guess) that it gives me physical pain to read it. The first time I read it, I finished reading about 5 minutes before Desert Shield became Desert Storm and bullets started flying... A rather prophetic closing sentence in that situation: [*]Alexandre Dumas [i]The Three Musketeers[/i] - Definitive blockbuster adventure story with such a damn dark ending. I get chills every time I finish it. The group's friendship, I think, carries the story through its thousands and thousands of pages (with all the follow-ons... [i]Twenty Years After[/i], etc) [*]Frank Herbert [i]Dune - [/i]This book was so perfect to me that I didn't even try to read any of the follow-ups. I was just afraid that it would wreck the whole mental state. [*][i]Lord of the Rings[/i] - Like others here, I pick it back up every couple of years. [i]Edit... [/i] [*]James Clavell [i]Shogun[/i] - Forgot this one. It's a guilty pleasure and probably looks weird up against all this 'literature.' Very immersive book. Probably one of the best 'normal guy in an alien environment' books I've read. I've read about four copies of this book into pieces and finally found a hard cover edition. My wife never understood why I disappeared from family life for a week while I was reading this...now she's reading it and I haven't seen her for a while... :) [/list]There are others, like Conan stories, Lankhmar novels, etc. that I pick back up from time to time, but never for the same reasons as the above books. [/QUOTE]
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