Posted on 05/18/2007 1:40:41 PM PDT by policestory
Need some ammunition for the culture war.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Did you try searching FR on the Key Word “Books?” There’s lots of threads on the subject.
If you were ever a John D. McDonald fan, Randy Wayne White has tried to pick up the banner and continue with it. IMO he has done so fairly successfully.
Some of the female novelists have some page turners out there. Nevada Barr and Dana Stabenow for example, however both, especially Stabenow, have started following the trend of going anti-Bush and pro-environmental. The environmental I understand because they both write in that kind of setting. I just skip over the BS. The trend will end soon. I like Stephen White, whose protagonist is a psychologist similar to Kellerman's.
Conservative? Probably not. Good reads? Yes.
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You said? Are you also the one who posted this thread, new FReeper 'policestory', MV?
Dostoevsky was a conservative or reactionary in his day, Turgenev a liberal, and Tolstoy an anarchist radical, but in comparison to what was to come, they were all "conservative" rather than revolutionary or Bolshevist.
But the message -- if we can speak of a message -- isn't choose this ideology rather than that one, it's keep in touch with real life and not surrender your soul to ideology.
Some philosophies and political systems are undoubtedly better than others, but if that's all you get from novels, you're missing something.
Good vs Evil to its soul. Excellent series, excellent writer.
Just what is conservative? I suspect that the series of books for women by Patricia Cornwell with the lead character’s niece being a lesbian would be considered NOT a conservative book. I used to read books by an author whose name I cannot remember who wrote a book promoting abortion....so I quit reading his books. Good auther, but when Washington’s democratic elites, like kennedy, hold a reception for him aplauding the book I nearly gagged. I had bought it and hadn’t read it yet. Never did read it and I have ignored all his books since. Can’t even remember his name today. LOL
OH, thanks for the tips on new authors, I will check them out soon.
Maybe so, but consider that while the lead character might represent something abhorrent, the novel could be entirely Conservative in the way it resolves the situation.
The last Stephen King book I read was “Insomnia.” He gushed over Connie Chung and painted Pro-lifers with an extremely ugly stereotype.
Try reading “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova, if you like that type of book. Her book is extremely well done and a first novel. It was a bestseller awhile back and is available in paperback now.
God Reward Us No Taxes.
Without the "N" it just doesn’t seem to have the same ring.
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try that one book by that dude, whats his name again? I forget but its pretty good.
I forgot to add Deborah Crombie to the list...her books are quite un-liberal (to coin a new phrase) and set in London for a change of pace. I like books that have continuing characters.
The Red President, by Martin Gross.
Couldn’t put it down.
Along the lines of the better-known The Manchurian Candidate.
I read it during the 2004 election while working to keep John Kerry out of the White House.
Ironic.
Indeed, truth is stranger than fiction.
I’ve read everything out by David Gemmell. Some of it twice.
try that one book by that dude, whats his name again? I forget but its pretty good.
Is it the one with the picture on the cover? That one’s great!
I recommend:
“The Man Who was Thursday” by G.K. Chesterton
Anything by Ayn Rand
Any of William F. Buckley’s spy novels (the first in his Blackford Oakes spy series is called “Saving the Queen”)
Let me suggest my own “September Day,” a 9/11 thriller.
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