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Love Peace Like a River too...Cormac McCarthy is also a favorite writer. I love the Border Trilogy and The Road more than No Country though...
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The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (and completed by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan's death) is the ultimate fantasy series imo. Nothing I've ever read comes close to it. But Sanderson's Stormlight Archive is a great read too.
In the nonfiction realm, Theodore Roosevelt's books are solid. I really enjoyed African Game Trails, Hunting Trips of a Rancher & The Wilderness Hunter.
In the nonfiction realm, Theodore Roosevelt's books are solid. I really enjoyed African Game Trails, Hunting Trips of a Rancher & The Wilderness Hunter.
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I respectfully disagree, I would never recommend that series to someone. Oh its an interesting story, and Brandons completion of the series after Robert Jordan died was masterful. But good lord, I got into that series early and waited 12 years for it to wrap up. I waited nearly TWO YEARS at times for a book to come out, only to have it cover less than a weeks worth of story time. Entire books where really nothing at all happened to advance the story. There were so many interesting side stories that went absolutely nowhere after investing the readers time in.
If someone wants a **** good fantasy story, check out Raymond Feist's Magician series. Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master are AMAZING books. Pug and Thomas are two of my all time most favorite characters. Then, once the hunger for more manifests itself, you move onto Empire Trilogy, Serpent War saga, Riftwar Legacy etc etc, and all the small story books inbetween. He build such a rich, interesting world, he was able to craft stories that span hundreds of years and generations of characters within that world. The familiarity of the "long lived", give a wonderful feeling of continuity as new trilogies are started. I think he has around 30 books based in the Midkemia lands.
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I found them back in 1998 and loved waiting for each book to come out after that. The amount of foreshadowing in the books and complete world building is fantastic to me. But that level of detail isn't for everybody. I've read and reread that series more than anything else and I catch new Easter eggs every time.
Wallace Stegner is one of my favorites. Big Rock Candy Mountain is loosely auto-biographical. Angle of Repose won a Pulitzer. Although he was a novelist, he also wrote some excellent history. Not Mormon, he did, however, spend his teens in SLC, and wrote some good non-fiction about the Mormon migration. Also wrote Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West.
Ivan Doig wrote some fantastic books. Most of them are set in the west. The English Creek Trilogy is good.
Wyoming2Utah, I suspect you would like both authors based on your book choices.
Ivan Doig wrote some fantastic books. Most of them are set in the west. The English Creek Trilogy is good.
Wyoming2Utah, I suspect you would like both authors based on your book choices.
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Since this is a wildlife forum I'd have to recommend "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold. I think it should be required reading for anyone who enjoys the outdoors.
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It's been a while.
read The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. It was pretty good.
Also: Peace Like a River. I really liked it.
Looking for something new now.
anyway -- looking for something new again....
read The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. It was pretty good.
Also: Peace Like a River. I really liked it.
Looking for something new now.
I turned on this series on TV the other day. Thought "hey, this could be good...". I watched 15 minutes of episode 1 and turned it off. It was terrible. The CGI was bad. Just the "realism" was bad -- I mean, bull elk mooing in early spring with full antlers while eating a ranchers hey stack and the game warden has to fire a shot in the air to get them to run away? And then the comment that those poached bull elk were "daddies" to newly born babies, and how would those calves survive without a dad to teach them? It was just plain corny. How on earth does Hollywood screw this stuff up so bad? Do they not have people doing fact checks, and due diligence? No way could I read the books now...
anyway -- looking for something new again....
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Ganya Yanagigara "Little Life" Heard a lot of good things about this book. I think you might like something like this. I am currently reading non-fiction. I really enjoyed the animation and now I'm trying to learn as much as possible about what kind of animation is made. By the way, in addition to legs, I was interested in many different sites where you can learn about animation. But that's it, more about my hobby. Although who knows. mine and you will be interested to read more about it.
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I am sure you will enjoy this book. I recently read this book. It is an awesome book.
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Blood Meridian was a heck of a book! McCarthy isn't exactly easy to read, but he can sure paint a picture and tell a story! This book left me exhausted, and yet continually wanting more. It was gruesome, and beautiful. It is not for the faint of heart.
I'm now reading Ridgeline by Michael Punke. It's historical fiction telling the story of Fort Phil Kearny, and the Fetterman Massacre at the hands of Chief Red Cloud and Crazy Horse. Pretty good stuff!
I'm now reading Ridgeline by Michael Punke. It's historical fiction telling the story of Fort Phil Kearny, and the Fetterman Massacre at the hands of Chief Red Cloud and Crazy Horse. Pretty good stuff!
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. Have you read “Bury my heart at Wounded Knee”? I found it very interesting. It outlines the government’s response and continued broken promises to the native Americans. Each chapter focuses on a different tribe and/or chief. Your mention of Red Cloud and Crazy Horse reminded me of it. I grew up just a stones throw from the Bear River Massacre site in SE Idaho so have always been very interested in the different accounts related to native Americans.
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Seven Summits by Dick Bass (the guy who founded Snowbird), Frank Wells, and Rick Ridgeway is a great book. If follows Dick and Frank's journey of trying to become the first people to climb the tallest peak on each continent. The trials and tribulations they go through in trying to complete the task are quite entertaining.
Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning is the story of a German police battalion and their efforts to "free" Poland of Jews during WW2. The stories (some pretty gruesome and all saddening) really opened my eyes to how regular folks can commit horrible acts when pushed, even if it is against their personal moral compass.
Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning is the story of a German police battalion and their efforts to "free" Poland of Jews during WW2. The stories (some pretty gruesome and all saddening) really opened my eyes to how regular folks can commit horrible acts when pushed, even if it is against their personal moral compass.
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Ordinary Men is on my list for this year. The Last Season by Eric Blehm was one of my favorite reads last year. It's about a missing park ranger in Kings Canyon National Park. I'm not quite sure why, but it really sucked me in and I couldn't stop thinking about it for months afterward just wondering what really happened.
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