Bought a kindle paperwhite today and am looking to start a digital collection. The only books i really want and plan on buying on day is Homer's the iliad and odyssey.
What are yall's favorite books? What else should i pick up? Can be any genre and any story, also pref non erotica stuff for my kindle collection, really looking for the good stuff.
Hard to pick one book by Robert Heinlein to be my favorite.
I looked on line to see what other people thought his best book was.
"Glenn Overby II, SF reader, post-WWII on.
Answered May 21, 2019
It would be one of three, depending on who is receiving the recommendation.
Stranger in a Strange Land is Heinlein's best novel and my default choice. But it's edgy even 58 years later.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is my fallback recommendation if I think that the reader might take offense to Stranger's more provocative content.
Starship Troopers is an excellent alternate choice for a combat veteran who doesn't exhibit bitterness over their service. Heinlein really understands battle and service."
You probably can't go wrong with any of his novels, and even his short stories are first rate. There are other good SF writers that some people would like even more. I suggest you go on an on-line search and get suggestions from other people, what they think the best book(s) to read are. The real answer is "it depends".
Will definitely check his books out. Stranger in a Strange Land looks interesting enough but how is Starship Troopers? Is it different enough from the original movie to make it worth a read?
Is it different enough from the original movie to make it worth a read?
Hell yes! Pretty much the only thing the movie got right about the story was the name. I was excited to hear a movie was being made, then as the release date approached, disappointed at the differences I'd heard about and seen on the trailers, and after release disgusted at the wholesale evisceration of the story.
Pretty much the only thing the movie got right about the story was the name.
It's wrong to think of the movie as an adaptation, it's intentionally a parody of the Heinlein's work. If you look at it as an intentional insult, it's phenomenal.
Oh, and read the book, it's great.
IIRC The Forever War by Joe Haldeman was intended as a counter to Starship Troopers. My vague memories of 40+ years ago suggest it was a good read.
Pretty much the only thing the movie got right about the story was the name.
From what I read some years back, the screenplay had been written without any reference to Starship Troopers and had nothing to do with it. When they were part way through production someone pointed out they could have a legal issue with the Heinlein estate due to how close the story was to the book Starship Troopers. In the end they decided to avoid the legal issues by buying the film rights, change a few names in the screenplay, re do a few scenes, change a couple of the later scenes, and use the book title in the hopes it gets them more ticket sales based on the name and reference to Heinlein. It was never meant to be a film of the story in the book.
I never understood how the movie venture got away with straying so far from book. I can only assume Heinlein's estate cared more for the money than they did for their namesakes integrity.
I never understood how the movie venture got away with straying so far from book. I can only assume Heinlein's estate cared more for the money than they did for their namesakes integrity.
The story I've heard is that the movie was originally being made from a different book entirely, under a different title.
Halfway through production someone involved in the production mentioned that it seemed pretty similar to Heinlein's Starship Troopers and they might have a legal problem. So they asked for a license, which for some unfathomable reason, was granted without even looking at a script.
As a result, the final movie released under the Starship Troopers name is a bit of a mash up of the two books.
So they asked for a license, which for some unfathomable reason, was granted without even looking at a script.
There was probably a lot of $$$$$ preceding that request. Heinlein's estate wouldn't be the first one to have sold out their namesake.
The story I've heard is that the movie was originally being made from a different book entirely, under a different title.
It was. The original story was "Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine" by Edward Neumeier. Neumeier was a fan of Heinlein, and largely based the story on concepts of ST. Not unusual, as many of the works of David Gerrold were also based on Heinlein.
It was Verhoeven who made all the changes. He admitted he did not even read the book (he hated it), and in his mind he saw the setting as Fascist and shot the movie that way.
I still hope someday we will get a proper retelling of the actual story. Especially the fact that Johnny Rico was not even an Anglo, he was from the Philippines. I always laugh that when people scream this is a "Fascist" movie and book, they obviously never read the book or they would see how grossly it was "whitewashed" in the movie.
As far as the cost, it must be remembered that the book by that time was around 40 years old. And there has been amazingly little interest in any movies made based on the works of the "Greats of Sci-Fi".
Heinlein, Bradbury, Asimov, there have actually been very few movies made based on their works. I read somewhere years ago that the rights sold for around $100k for Starship Troopers. And they are still making movies based on the series.
But sadly, they are all still based upon the movie, not the original book. A TV series, and 4 sequel movies. But all based on the Verhoeven concept, not the original Heinlein one.
I read the book. I had issues with it and I like Heinlein. I appreciated the parody in the movie.
Stranger in a Strange Land is Heinlein's best novel and my default choice. But it's edgy even 58 years later.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is my fallback recommendation if I think that the reader might take offense to Stranger's more provocative content.
Starship Troopers is an excellent alternate choice for a combat veteran who doesn't exhibit bitterness over their service. Heinlein really understands battle and service
The later version of Stranger, where they took the edits out, is slightly different, but still edgy.
I don't think you can go wrong with 'Brass Cannon'. (aka The Moon is a Harsh Mistress)
Starship Troopers (the book, not the garbage movie) should almost be required reading for anyone who is even thinking about joining the military. And you should read it at least three times, to get what he was talking about.
The Honor Harrington collection by Weber, the Hammers Slammers series by Drake, The Aldenata series by John Ringo, the Riftwar series by Raymond Fiest, and the Lost Regiment series by William Fortschen all grace my bookshelves in their dead tree format. Plus, of course, everything by Heinlein.
Starship Troopers (the book, not the garbage movie) should almost be required reading for anyone who is even thinking about joining the military. And you should read it at least three times, to get what he was talking about.
I just want to ditto this; it couldn't be more spot on. In the book, you find the entire rationale, presented as philosophy, of why we or any other country fights. And it's analysis of the real reasons for war is remarkable thought provoking.
ETA: I just can't help but add one favorite quote from the book and one that pretty much sums up the tone throughout:
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
I just want to ditto this; it couldn't be more spot on. In the book, you find the entire rationale, presented as philosophy, of why we or any other country fights. And it's analysis of the real reasons for war is remarkable thought provoking.
ETA: I just can't help but add one favorite quote from the book and one that pretty much sums up the tone throughout:
So true.
If you want an even more radical view of these classes, check out the Chtorran War series by David Gerrold.
Yes, the guy that wrote "The Trouble With Tribbles". He was a long time fan and friend of Heinlein, and must of his concepts were worked into his own series. But in a dark and twisted way.
His even includes a class even more radical. With the teacher actually provoking the class into a "revolution", leading them to overthrow the teacher and in the end draft a Constitution. And in it and other classes later, it is shown that the instructors have the power to do almost anything they want, even sexually abuse or kill their students (which they NEVER do).
But in those cases, it also serves as an example that just because somebody does have extreme power, that does not mean they have to use it.
But much of Heinlein can be seen in in all of his works. The Tribble was based on the "Flat Cat" from Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones". Which in the Chtorran series became "Meeps". So cute and "addictive" to mammals that a mother would abandon her own child to care for one and humans will instinctively never harm one.
Starship Troopers (the book, not the garbage movie) should almost be required reading for anyone who is even thinking about joining the military.
At one point, it was.
Back in the 1980's, the Marine Corps released their first "Reading List". It included many books that it was suggested that Marines read, broken down by rank. And it was mostly what you would expect. The "Lee's Officers" series, Rise and Fall of Rome, etc.
But in this list, two books stood out.
One, was for all ranks was "Starship Troopers". The other for Corporal and above was "Ender's Game", by Orson Scott Card. I had read ST many years before, but as we now had a copy in the unit library I read it again, along with Ender's Game.
And both had a well deserved place on that list. They both really went into many things, including the concept of "why we fight", and the psychological reasons behind many military operations that we on the ground might not see.
Sadly, neither of the movies made based on them came anywhere close to the stories themselves. And both are frequently blasted as being "fascist" books by "fascist" authors.
I haven't read Stranger in a Strange Land in a couple decades, but I remember it being quite good. I read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress within the last year and it was a fun read as well. That being said, I also read Friday within the last couple years and liked it better. The plot probably meanders a bit more than Moon and it has a difficult chapter early on, but I found the titular character more engaging.
Depends on your definition of 'better', really. Stranger In A Strange Land has more, and better, ideas. Friday is a romp and much more 'fun'. I like both of them, but I'd hesitate to call Friday simply 'better'.
Depends on your definition of 'better', really. Stranger In A Strange Land has more, and better, ideas. Friday is a romp and much more 'fun'. I like both of them, but I'd hesitate to call Friday simply 'better'.
I agree it's subjective. In my subjective opinion, 'Friday' is a better book. Others may not agree.
I am also a Robert Heinlein and have many of his books. I have read Time Enough for Love that I bought a second one as the first was falling apart
Homer's the iliad and odyssey.
Aren't they out of copyright? You might be able to pick them up free.
AJ
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Homer's the iliad and odyssey.
Aren't they out of copyright? You might be able to pick them up free.
AJ
Amazon has an option on their web page for one to load books from your system into your Kindle library.
Amazon has an option on their web page for one to load books from your system into your Kindle library.
Small caveat. This doesn't work for the Kindle for PC reader, they only support Kindle devices and the Kindle reader apps for tablets.
Aren't they out of copyright? You might be able to pick them up free.
Yes, and no.
The original is indeed long out of copyright. If you are good at reading Ancient Greek. But any modern translation does retain the copyright of that translation.
Some old versions are indeed public domain, but most of those written in the last 100 years are still in copyright.
All time favourite - The Lord of The Rings by Tolkien. I was in the Merchant Navy in the 1970s and read it for 8 consecutive, 3/4 month, voyages over 3 years. Found something new each time i read it.
try something by sir walter scott...simply to enjoy the diferance in the language at the time...also try swiss family robinson...it was like christmas every day...a fun concept followed by many authors on SOL...happy trails
If you're a fan of sci-fi in which the science is well thought out, author Jerry Pournelle is your guy. He's a contemporary of Heinlein and passed away a couple years ago, but his works hold up well.
I also really dig the Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester. It's a fun series of books about sailing adventures set during the Napoleonic era. It's all wind power, canon, and grit. Read them in order to follow his career in the British Navy.
For horror, you can't go wrong with Steven King-- especially his older works. I recommend his short story collection Night Shift. The Stand is good entertaining novel about a pandemic, so as long as that's not your trigger right now it's a real page-turner.
I'm a fan of pulp fiction and you can get the entire Tarzan collection by Edgar Rice Burroughs on your Kindle. Or his sci-fi series John Carter of Mars.
The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield is a fantastic retelling of the battle of Thermopylae. I highly recommend it.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a sci-fi classic.
Jim Butcher pretty much created the urban fantasy genre with his Dresden Files series, which is at something like 17 books and counting. The first few books were fun but not life-changing. His writing keeps getting better book by book though, until you find you're eagerly looking for the next "hit" like a crack addict. If you find you like the genre (which is really a mash-up of mystery and thriller with some supernatural trappings) then the Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka is also excellent. Similar premise (magician surviving in our present-day world) but executed much differently.
Horatio Hornblower
His name evolved from his practice of blowing a horn when approaching a new port either longer or shorter depending on how many prostitutes were available in the port sailors would visit next. If the whore ratio was normal, he would blow the horn for an average length of time.
His name evolved from his practice of blowing a horn when approaching a new port either longer or shorter depending on how many prostitutes were available in the port sailors would visit next. If the whore ratio was normal, he would blow the horn for an average length of time.
Did he blow his own horn or someone else's?
Presumably he blew several peoples horns as you state he chose horns of different lengths... As only pirates had parrots he seems to have had a cockatoo...
What exactly is a 'normal' whore ratio? Does it signify that his crew could 'man the whores' together? It is after all customary for sailors to all have a whore on their rowlocks...
:)
I know it won't be a popular choice among this crowd but I REALLY enjoyed "Ready Player One." But I figure that has a lot to do with the fact that all the shit he names as his favorites were also my favorites.
It was eerie how close to my thoughts were brought out on the pages. I even liked the movie, not as much but it is a fine film to watch on a weekend afternoon slowly waiting for football to begin again.
I've read and reread most of the works of the following authors.
GOAT: Lord of the Rings
Fantasy: Raymond E. Fiest.
Modern setting fantasy: Larry Correia, Wen Spencer, S.M. Stirling.
Scifi: Robert Heinlein, Jerry Pournelle,Larry Niven, H.Beam Piper, John Ringo, Louis Bujold McMaster.
Alternate history: Harry Turtledove.
Louis Bujold McMaster
that's Lois Bujold McMaster ...
GOAT - Dune. Could never get more that a couple of chapters into any Tolkien novel - but liked the Jackson movies.
Fantasy - Witches of Karres
Mod Fantasy - Warlock in Spite of Himself series
Scifi - Liaden universe
Swd/Sorcery - Bulmer's Kregen series or the Deryni trilogies
I'm gonna limit myself to five favorite books, some public domain and some not.
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Metamorphoses, Ovid
Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin
Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en
Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers
There are decent enough PD translations of the Ovid (such as at Project Gutenberg) but not Journey, though ebooks of either of the two contemporary translations are readily found.
The Hornblower stories by C.S. Forester about naval warfare during the Napoleonic wars . They're one of the primary foundations on which the original Star Trek was based. Probably best to start with the first book published, Beat to Quarters, called The Happy Return in the UK.
For SF, I like Heinlein, but what I reread most is The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov.
Since PBS has been running a series about Hemingway, I'll recommend some of his works. I prefer his short stories. You might want to start with In Our Time which is an early collection of short stories and the first book Hemingway published.
James Jones, From Here to Eternity. There is a new edition out (which I haven't read) which includes some of the more controversial parts his publisher cut from the first edition.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, if you didn't read it in high school.
I can't say I have one favorite book, there are so many worth reading and rereading.
Heinlein, Pournelle, EE 'Doc' Smith, Pern series, Honor Harrington series, Georgette Heyer (hey, what can I say!), Cornwell's Sharpe series, Julie Garwood, Sharon Salla, WEB Griffin, "Red Storm Rising", Jane Anne Krentz, Alistir MacLean, Andrew Greeley,...
I could go on but I won't. As you can tell I don't stay with one genre, but spread out a lot1
The Cormaron strike novels by Robert galbraith (actually written by J.K Rowling under another name) there is 4 in the series so far and well worth the read.
Many people have mentioned Heinlein and I'll second that. Same for Tolkein. Even if they're NOT your favorite, they're foundational (and, pun intended, Asimov is in there too, especially the Foundation stories).
Stephen King is one of my favorites. I love 'The Stand', warts and all. I'm an enormous fan of the entire Gunslinger saga, up to and including the controversial ending, and works connected to it ('The Talisman' and 'Black House', cowritten with Peter Straub, plus many others). The Bill Hodges trilogy ('Mr. Mercedes', 'Finders Keepers', 'End of Watch') along with 'The Outsider' are wonderful (I'd argue it's really the Holly Gibney series, in the end). 'Eyes Of The Dragon' is short and brilliant. There are some weak King novels (especially when he was really struggling personally), but most are great.
Dan Simmons' Hyperion saga is amazing ('Hyperion', 'The Fall of Hyperion', 'Endymion', 'The Rise of Endymion').
It's hard to go wrong with most of Neil Gaiman's work.
Douglas Adams ('The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' and sequels) is well worth your time.
Mark Helprin's 'Winter's Tale' is wonderful, if you like/are willing to try off-kilter 'modern' (turn of the century 1900) fantasy. The movie isn't even vaguely as good as the book.
Three totally different takes on the Illuminati are all a lot of fun: 'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown (which everyone knows, from the movie), 'Foucault's Pendulum' by Umberto Eco (which has the worst opening section of any book I've ever finished - if you slog through the opening, the rest is terrific), and 'The Illuminatus Trilogy' by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, which is silly-to-ridiculous and is jam packed with both cleverness and idiocy, often in the same sentence.
William Horwood's 'Duncton Wood' series is well worth a look, if fantasy involving anthropomorphized animals is in your space. Think 'Watership Down', but bigger. Much bigger. If 'Watership Down' is 'The Hobbit', 'Duncton Wood' (and sequels) is 'The Lord Of The Rings' and beyond.
I am undoubtedly forgetting some favorites, but that's a whole lot of reading already.
I second the Douglas Adams recommendation! I can't believe I forgot him and Asimov on my list.
Others have added some great books but I would like to add as well these that not only do I enjoy but I loved reading to my niece who I raised like my own daughter
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Series by Lewis Carroll
4 books
Wizard of Oz collection by L. Frank Baum
15 books
The Chronicles Of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
7 books
My favorite "dead tree" authors/series are:
*the Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy Sayers
*Louis L'Amour
*The Ring of Fire Universe (It has more authors than Eric Flint).
*Randall Garret.
If I had to pick my top three recommendations...
Fiction:
The Captain And The Enemy - Graeme Greene
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Nonfiction:
The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
cfuson001 - You sent me on a trip to the past - a do-over browse of my bookcases. As the boys used to say, Now for something entirely different . . .
Authors -
John Steinbeck
Allen Drury
Herman Wouk
Leon Uris
Marge Pierc
Rafael Sabintini
Daphne DuMaurier
Truman Capote
James Joyce
Joanna Russ
Shirley Jackson
T.H. White
Edna Ferber
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Books, for something lighter -
Mr Roberts
Catch 22
Auntie Mame
The World According to Garp
No Time for Sergeants
Not As a Stranger - I list it as a favorite because of one line that has stuck firmly in my memory that I believe was omitted from the film
Get out and dont come back until youre a virgin again!
Non Fiction -
Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
Damn! Now my stack of books to read or rather re-read has grown again. [Aghh - how do you single space a list?]
Thanks for the recommendations everyone, will give me plenty of stuff to read now.
I watched "The Godfather" last night and remembered the book was my favorite when I was young. So was "God is my Co-Pilot." And the early James Bond books.
Would I like them now? Writing has changed and my tastes have changed so who knows.
More recent books that I really liked (although I'd find it hard to call them my favorites) were "The Da Vince Code" and "The Kite Runner."
A few not mentioned yet:
"Old Man's War" by John Scalzi
Shannara series by Terry Brooks
Most works of Ben Bova but in particular "Death wave"
"The High Crusade" by Poul Anderson
Now for something completely different
The Don Camillo stories by Giovannino Guareschi
The Don Camillo stories by Giovannino Guareschi
My wifes loves the films bases on these books and I have to admit to having been amused by them too.
While almost everything I would have named has been named already, my favorite mystery series hasn't.
The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters
20 books in the series.
13 of which were adapted wonderfully for television by British broadcaster ITV, with Derek Jacobi in the title role.
While almost everything I would have named has been named already, my favorite mystery series hasn't.
The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters
If you enjoyed those, you might try the Hugh de Singleton books by Mel Starr.
I agree, Cadfael is great. I think he was also missing in that Detective Match Up thing from the other day. A woeful oversight.
I thought I would bless you with my top ten books/writers since 1950 (which I present in a random order as my preferences might change from hour to hour.)
Robert Heinlein - everything but if I have to choose, Stranger in a Strange Land
Piers Anthony - Macroscope
John Irving - almost everything but if I have to choose, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Iain Banks - The Crow Road
Alisdair Gray - Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
John Nichols - New Mexico Trilogy: The Milagro Beanfield War; The Magic Journey; The Nirvana Blues.
John Fowles - everything but if I have to choose, The Magus
Issac Azimov - The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation; Foundation and Empire; Second Foundation.
Sebastian Faulks - much of his work but my favourite is, Birdsong
A few more:
Three historical adventure novels by Samuel Shellabarger:
Captain From Castile - Conquest of the Aztecs by Cortes.
Prince of Foxes - Cesare Borgia during Renaissance Italy.
The King's Cavalier - Adventure, romance, intrigue in France during reign of Henri IV (1500s).
Also, can recommend Vector by Michal Dalton. It's an erotic novel, but much more than just that. Dalton has a new fantasy isekai (transferred to alternate world) series. I haven't read it, but appears to be very popular.
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Issac Azimov would have been a great nym for an author on scifistories (and SOL) until you demonstrated the effect of the 'Google knows better' 'facility' :-(
AJ
Issac Azimov would have been a great nym for an author on scifistories (and SOL)
ON SOL it would have to be Issac Assimov
Issac Azimov would have been a great nym for an author on scifistories (and SOL) until you demonstrated the effect of the 'Google knows better' 'facility' :-(
I have referenced the Good Doctor's works several times in my own. Even including a cameo of Dr. Susan Calvin and USR&MM in one of them.
But unless you are a fan of Dr. Asimov's works, this would likely be missed by most.
Tom Robbins and John Fowles are great choices. My favorite Tom Robbins' novel is Another Roadside Attraction. Second favorite probably Jitterbug Perfume. I've read all the Fowles books at least twice. Daniel Martin is probably my favorite. The stories in The Ebony Tower are among the best stories ever.
Lorna Doone. It's 150 years old and yet it would fit right in on SOL! If you want to read the original coming of age jock gets head cheerleader story, read Lorna Doone! :)
I distinctly remember being out of my mind excited when I was first allowed to borrow books from the adult section of the library. The first book I chose was Breed to Come by Andre Norton. And the rest is history as they say.
Tom Clancy
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison - think Soylent Green. And his Stainless Steel Rat series.
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton - all his work actually
So many others... so many.
Elliott Kay has a couple great series, even on kindle unlimited if you're a subscriber.
One author I haven't seen mentioned here is Robert A. Frezza. I love his book A Small Colonial War which is military Sci-fi with a good dose of humor. Bujold's The Curse of Chalion is one of my favorite fantasy novels, but I like almost all of her Barrayar novels as well. Lastly, the premier novel by Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind is pretty special too.
The Quiet American
The Illuminatus Trilogy by RAW and Robert Shea
Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy by RAW
Neuromancer
Gateway
Godel Escher Bach
When Corporations Rule The World
Cat's Cradle
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Lipstick Traces (Marcus)
Foucalt's Pendulum
the works of Raymond Chandler, Hunter Thompson, Douglas Adams, and Al Franken.
James H. Schmitz 'Federation of the Hub' stories, Baen Books, 4 books edited by Eric Flint:
Telzey Amberdon, T'n'T Telzey and Trigger, Trigger and Friends, The Hub: Dangerous Territory.
All of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee books.
S.M. Sterling's Conquistador.
HM.
McGee is the prototype misanthropic hero. Those books are long-time favorites of mine.
Also.Keith Laumer's Retief stories.
steeltiger5/18/2021, 6:55:23 AM
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McGee is the prototype misanthropic hero. Those books are long-time favorites of mine.
McGee is a favorite of mine too. I would not have considered him misanthropic. Yes, he's something of a loner by choice, but he has good friends and loving companions, and I don't think he has a low opinion of people in general. Is he so different from Sherlock Holmes or Nero Wolfe, both of whom predate Travis? If anything, those two are even more misanthropic.
It's serendipitous I ran across this thread today - I have just finished "Island Mine" by Refusenik and the first thought that popped into my head was, " I feel like I just discovered a lost Heinlin novel".
He was a huge favorite of mine when younger and a big reason why I came to love the genre. Now I mostly read thrillers by these authors;
Lee Child, Brad Thor, Brad Taylor, Vince Flynn... etc...
The rest of the time I relentlessly prowl SOL looking for feel-good stories without a lot of sex scenes. Can't tell you how many stories I've started to read with great enthusiasm only to bail out after he sixth time I'm forced to read how some tireless sex fiend pounded some pussy. Gets old real fast.
It's serendipitous I ran across this thread today - I have just finished "Island Mine" by Refusenik and the first thought that popped into my head was, " I feel like I just discovered a lost Heinlin novel".
He was a huge favorite of mine when younger and a big reason why I came to love the genre.
Mackey Chandler has a bit of a Heinlein feel to him.
Easier to read than whose stories? Heinlein? or Refusenik? Cause Heinlein is up there with easiest to read already
Easier to read than whose stories? Heinlein? or Refusenik? Cause Heinlein is up there with easiest to read already
Well I was thinking of a Heinlein story when I made the comment as I recently began rereading one that I had read many years ago, and found it difficult to get into. As to Refusenik, I liked them and hope that there will be more in the future.