Y'all have already named most of mine.
AggieMM wrote:Tom Clancy
LOVE his stuff. I got hooked by The Hunt for Red October many years ago and continue to enjoy Clancy's books.
AggieMM wrote:WEB Griffin
I've read The Corps series multiple times. 1st class stuff. I am not a Marine, but my dad was. He gave me a few of those books to read. I thought "Why is this dang jarhead giving me some jarhead books to read?" But I tried them and thought they were fantastic. Ken "Killer" McCoy, Pick Pickering and their friends are really, really well developed characters.
anygunanywhere wrote:John Sandford.
His Prey series of crime novels are great.
I'm currently reading Rules of Prey for the umteenth time. I've purchased two or three copies of most of the Prey novels. (Left them in storage in Texas when I moved to California, bought them again out there. Gave one set to a friend.) Lucas Davenport is another excellent example of character development. I've also read two or three of his other books, including one or two of the Kidd novels. They're pretty good too.
Kerbouchard wrote:The Walking Drum by Louis Lamour(along with everything else by Louis Lamour)
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Most of John Grisham's books.
The Last of the Breed is one of my all-time favorite books. Never read much Louis Lamour, but love that one.
Read most of Grisham's stuff too. He's another of my favorites. Grisham considers A Time to Kill a clumsy first attempt at writing a book. I consider it a masterpiece.
jimlongley wrote:Twain
Yeah.
Tom Sawyer and also A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
(Sorry, I never cared for Asimov. I'm a science fiction buff, but never could get all that excited about his works.)
Skiprr wrote:Robert Heinlein
Frank Herbert
I've only read a couple of Heinlein books, Friday, and Stranger in a Strange Land. Liked both, read both multiple times. Both have a way of making you examine your own prejudices and seeing how rediculous they are. Always meant to check out more of his books and never got around to it.
The early Dune books ROCK. Then after the first few, they get more and more far out and I lose interest. I've read the first five or so, most of them multiple times.
(Hated Kafka when I had to read him in college.)
TxDrifter wrote:During my younger years we had J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Piers Anthony, Alan Dean Foster, Anne McCaffrey and others in the fantasy and scifi genre, but they were geared more toward adults.
I don't know Foster. I've read the others and enjoyed them.
Interest in Tolkien later led to interest in Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance books. I still go back and read those again from time to time. The first six in particular. More great character development, even if they do seem to be written for kids.
Considering the forum, I'm surprised to not see more political works. I've enjoyed books by Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and Mark Levin to name a few.
(Try Men In Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America by Levin!)
