Freeper Book Club Conservative Novel Recommendations

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[policestory]

Freeper Book Club

Thanks to all who gave me some great ideas for conservative novels to read this summer.

I compiled a list of the ones mentioned most and some I checked on Amazon.com. I read the Amazon.com reviews and they seem worthwhile. I ranked them purely by what I think would be good. It is totally arbitrary. I have only read a couple ( which I noted). The rest are Freeper recommendations:

1- Everything by W.E.B. Griffin ( He wrote several series of books "Brotherhood of War"; "The Corps" – I read "Semper Fi"; "Badge of Honor" – this is about the Phila. PD, Men at War and some others. His son wrote one too. I've read most of Griffin's stuff - excellent!)

2- Anything by Tom Clancy (Actually the stuff he wrote in the 1980’s and early 1990’s like "Red Storm Rising" and "Hunt for Red October" - both of which I read - among others. One novel talks about wacko environmentalists).

3- "A Sense of Duty" by Michael P. Tremoglie (A Freeper William Tell 2. Excellent novel exposing hypocrisy and ruthlessness of mainstream media and civil rights industry. Got great reviews by WEB Griffin and Phila Bulletin and Campus Report)

4- "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton

5- Anything by Robert Heinlein (these are science fiction like Starship Troopers, which is really good. No citizenship unless served in military).

6- "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Woulk (Is this really conservative?)

7- Anything by Tom Wolfe (other than the Right Stuff I don’t know how conservative he is)

8- Unintended Consequences by John Ross (seems interesting)

9- "The Devil is Dead" by John Lafferty

10 - "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand ( I’ve read this. I don’t know if I’d characterize it as conservative. Some Freepers did though).

11- The Secret Agent and The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

12- The Reckoning ( no author named)

13- Angels in Iron by J. Prata

14- Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspaill

15- The Devil’s Advocate Taylor Caldwell

16- The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books (not sure how conservative or why these are conservative).

17- L. Neil Smith (no novels mentioned)

18 - Neal Stevenson (no books named)

19- Snowcrash ( no author)

20- Crypto-Nomicon: “

21- The Confusion “

22- The System of the World “

23- The Quicksilver: “

24- Interface “

25- Cobweb “

26- Vince Flynn novels

27- September Day

28- Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer.

29- Ninety-three by Victor Hugo

30- Terry Goodkind (no books mentioned)

31- David Gemmel (no books mentioned)

32- John D. McDonald

33- Randy Wayne White

34-Deborah Crombie

35- The Red President, by Martin Gross

36-Ted Dekker

37-William F. Buckley’s spy novels

38- The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy

39 - A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Also, for you movie goers check the Renaissance Film Festival in Dallas Texas and the Liberty Film Festival in Hollywood. These are strictly for conservative movies. Maybe we can read these books, find others, and talk about them and some of the conservative movies. It would be kind of cool.

[LantzALot]

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Been one of my favorites since college. I've read it many times.
Actually more like a novela, or a long short story. A quick read.

Too bad that F*** F*** Coppola pretended that his piece-of-crap movie was actually the same story.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Bump for later.

[LantzALot]

Anything by Tom Clancy ... like "Red Storm Rising" and "Hunt for Red October"

Also, try Without Remorse.

[Tanniker Smith]

Also, try Without Remorse.

Without Remorse kind of annoyed me. It might have been the last of his books that I read. I diagnosed Clancy with "Stephen King Syndrome" at that point -- the inability to realize that you are no longer being paid by the word. A lot of padding and a lot of characters being introduced for the sole purpose of killing them 20 pages later.

That, and the fact that I was a chapter or two into it before I figured out that it was "20 years ago" (longer, now) and not present day. Maybe I missed something in the beginning that dated the story -- I didn't find anything when I scanned for it.

[rlmorel]

"..."The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Woulk (Is this really conservative?)..."

Absolutely. The movie is about leadership. It is one of my favorite movies.

It deals with responsibility, doing the right thing, respect for authority and the rule of law...

There are a lot of lessons in the movie that are not necessarily related to the military.

The most important lesson it teaches is that you may work for a psychotic bastard, but what counts is how you conduct yourself in that situation, not how poorly or unfairly you are treated by a superior. The other related lesson is that no matter how bad you think your superior might be...there is ALWAYS someone worse out there.

[mathluv]

Joel Rosenberg has 4 novels - political, but now found in the Christian fiction isle of the bookstore. The first was ‘The Last Jihad’. The most recent is ‘The Copped Scroll’.

[LantzALot]

As with most books, we as readers bring to it something of our own. I guess I was fascinated by the idea of a one-man vigilante committee able to remove scum from our city streets.

[mathluv]

I always have a book 'going', as well as a CD in the car. I like to listen to Clive Cussler and James Patterson.

Some books are well written, but turn me off when they get involved with BDS. That is when I stop reading that author. It probably has nothing to do with the story - just taking a chance to 'make a statement'. Those I can do without.

[cricket]

Thanks for the heads-up. Will definitely consider recommendations here. (Anybody have suggestions for ‘non-fiction’?(!))

[Tanniker Smith]

Yeah, I liked that part, too.
I just wish the book had been edited a little more and written better.
It wasn't on par with, say, Red October or The Cardinal of the Kremlin.

I enjoyed Red Storm Rising, but it took me a while to get through it -- and I think that I managed that because I had listened to the audio book (abridged) a year or so earlier. The technical parts got into a lot of detail. I found myself skimming through large sections waiting to get back to Iceland, which was my favorite part of the story.

[Tanniker Smith]

Oh, forgot to add — if anyone would like to be added or removed from the Book Club ping list please send Freepmail. (don’t post here, I might miss it)

[HarleyLady27]

I am a mystery reader and Patrica Cornwell is great read.

Also, Johnathan Kellerman is another good mystery writer.

[jim macomber]

See my tagline.

[aberaussie]

I liked Unintended Consequences, but it could have been shorter...and a little less raw. I am uncomfortable recommending it to some people I know because of at least one brutal sexual scene.

[aberaussie]

I liked Unintended Consequences, but it could have been shorter...and a little less raw. I am uncomfortable recommending it to some people I know because of at least one brutal sexual scene.

[aberaussie]

I liked Unintended Consequences, but it could have been shorter...and a little less raw. I am uncomfortable recommending it to some people I know because of at least one brutal sexual scene.

[6ppc]

I recently read two science fiction novels by Michael Z. Williamson...Freehold and The Weapon. They are about how a former earth colony deals with an attempt by a UN dominated earth to take control. Both are page turners and may keep you up all night reading. Beware...they treat sex in a very libertarian manner, so if that bothers you I don't recommend them.

[6ppc]

You could probably add Jerry Pournelle to the ‘approved author’ list.

I concur. , Footfall, and The Mote in God's Eye which he co-authored with Larry Niven are great.

[6ppc]

Left off Lucifer's Hammer

[6ppc]

Anybody have suggestions for ‘non-fiction’?(!))

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes is a must read...also a Pulitzer Prize winner.