Posted on 05/20/2007 5:23:26 AM PDT by 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 1980s and early 1990s 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 dont 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 ( Ive read this. I dont know if Id 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 Devils 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. Buckleys 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.
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.
Bump for later.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
Thanks for the heads-up. Will definitely consider recommendations here. (Anybody have suggestions for ‘non-fiction’?(!))
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.
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)
I am a mystery reader and Patrica Cornwell is great read.
Also, Johnathan Kellerman is another good mystery writer.
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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.
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.
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.
I concur. , Footfall, and The Mote in God's Eye which he co-authored with Larry Niven are great.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes is a must read...also a Pulitzer Prize winner.
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