Best book ever. "All Quite on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque (i think that's how you spell it)

After you get passed all the characters foreign names, it is a book you cannot put down. It has it all.

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I've read that book. Pretty good.

If anyone into war book...I cannot remember the author, but it one of those my name is America type book. It called "Journal of Patrick Flaherty: Siege at Khe Sahn, Vietnam 1968"

LOL, its actually spelled " Q U I E T " Brent. ;D

Hookemdumb, ive only read A Farewell to Arms, but it was really really good.

Here it is.

http://www.amazon.com/Journal-Patrick-Seamus-Flaherty-Vietnam/dp/0439148901

I read this book when I was 12 year old and had knee surgery. Back during the time I was home school due to knee surgery I was a huge Vietnam and WW2 nut. This was one of my favorite book. Really good read.

Hookemdumb, ive only read A Farewell to Arms, but it was really really good.

I like it. ;D

I've heard good stuff about Hemingway.  One of my fishing buddies who hates reading read "The Old Man and the Sea" and really liked it.

Hemingway wrote "A Farewell to Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in Piggot, AR, which is a small town a few miles from my city.  I'll have to give him a try.

I'm going for my PhD in American History and I'm planning on reading alot of Hemingway b/c he is an author I'm interested in. I've been down to his place in Key West and I've read alot about him as a man. That guy was hardcore.

His place down in Key West is cool.  

My favorite book about war, by one of my favorite authors:

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut

He killed himself at the place in Key West, right?

Fourbizz and Hookem, you should definitely read more Hemingway. I have read A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Old Man and the Sea (short book about a fishermen, start there), The Sun Also Rises, some of To Have and Have Not and some of his short stories like The Nick Adams Stories and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. It was a long time ago so I don't remember a lot about them but they are great reads.

The short stories are very good and read very fast.

He has this way of saying things without actually saying them. If you read his work, especially the short stories you will see what I mean. It is called the "iceberg principle." They say only an eighth of an iceberg is exposed above the surface. He gives you the top eighth explicitly but it reveals the deeper aspects subtly so it is up to the reader to see the whole "iceberg."

My high school english teacher was a national Hemingway expert. He was a high school teacher and college professor but he did a lot of research papers on Hemingway. He knew everything about him and his work so he really got us to read a lot of his stuff.

If you like Hemingway, read some William Faulkner.

I've read plenty of Faulkner. Good stuff right here.  Do they have similar styles?

Dominion Dan, even though what you wrote mad a lot of sense you are not old enough to have an opinion.

I've read plenty of Faulkner. Good stuff right here. Do they have similar styles?

Umm, I wouldn't say they have similar styles. Hemingway is much more simplistic and he writes more about individuals while Faulkner tried to challenge traditional formats (one of his stories goes like 35 pages without a period) and he writes more about people as society. I just like both.

And mattm, sorry, I'll keep it to myself.  ;D

It looks like I'm going to pick up a few more books pretty soon.  I need a bigger room, a closet can only hold so many books.

I'm almost buy more books than fishing lures. Hemingway's shorts are very good. Haven't read as many of his novels but they're in the pile. As well as Poe's Dupin Tales, and The Divine Comedy.

College has killed my reading time. It's all I did in my high school classes.

I do not acknowledge superfluous punctuation. ;D

Dominion Dan- I believe he killed himself at his home in Idaho. Double barreled shotgun. Pulled both triggers.

Dominion Dan- I believe he killed himself at his home in Idaho. Double barreled shotgun. Pulled both triggers.

just looked it up, you're right.

I used to read all the, "Artemis Fowl" books. Loved those. Also ive read about every book by Gary Paulsen. Used to love him.

I am about halfway through The Three Musketeers by Dumas.  I was surprised to find out how funny the darned thing is.  

I have a love/hate relationship with Hemingway.  I love his writing when he is discussing the outdoors or anything having to do with action.  

His dialogues are nearly incomprehensible, however.  He seemed to use his spare dialogue as an art form rather than an attempt to write as people actually spoke.  His dialogue is like abstract art rather than realism.

I love to read. When I was a boy, all I did in my spare time was fish and read, sometimes at the same time.

I'm on a Mark Twain kick and am reading his stuff that I didn't have to read in school. Finished Roughing It not too long ago and am now reading The Innocents Abroad. The guy has me laughing out loud.

I'm also dipping into the anthology published by Sports Illustrated titled Great Baseball Writing, which contains some of the best baseball features SI has ever published. Great stuff. It's my spring training.

Finally, I'm always reading some kind of woodworking or carpentry book. Am working on James Krenov's A Cabinetmaker's Notebook and Remodeling a Basement (not by Krenov), which is my next big carpentry project.

About Hemingway and Faulkner: Both are great great writers, but they are very different. Hemingway's sentences are short and direct, while Faulkner's are long and convoluted. IMHO, Faulkner's the better writer, but some of his books can be rough going. If you haven't read his short story, "The Bear," it's a good place to start. Both these guys were obviously excellent sportsmen.

Norman

I never liked reading when i was younger. Hell i did a book report on Jack Londons "Call of the wild" from 7th grade to 10th grade. I do find myself reading alot more. LOL i really like Harry Potter and i love the movies. But they leave out so much in the movies from the books.I am usually on the road alot so i was wanting to get some books on tape or cd. I know the Library now has certain books on mp3 players. I have read a few Dean Koontz, its my wifes favorite author.

anyone ever read Cormac McCarthy?

Here are a few authors I like:  John Keegan, Stephen Ambrose, Ernst Junger, Eugene Sledge, and Neal Boortz.

I just finished David McCullough's 1776. One of the easiest reads I've read in a while yet incredibly informative. Moved right on to John Adams. I'm about 100 pages in right now.  

I never read McCullough's "1776", but listened to it on a loooong car trip. The guy is a really talented writer.

Do magazines and Bass pro/ Cabelas catalogs count?

                     -gk