Good Books?

I have read most of the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child . Harlin Cobin is good too. I did look into WEB Griffin a few years ago, he has several different series.
 
Best book I think I ever read was the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. It's an awesome book - but it's not a casual read. It's 3 volumes and several thousand pages.

While it's sort of his biography of 10+ years in Russia's Gulag system and the persecution afterwards - the author has a way of telling it that is extremely witty and often just funny.
 
pgp- I've enjoyed most of the Reacher series, but the earlier entries displayed a glaring ignorance of cars and firearms.  Harlin Cobin...oh man that sounds familiar, I just know I've read some of his but I can't remember....


 


Swanicyouth- Good on you for reading that, gotta admit I won't invest the time.  Which might be a big mistake on my part, reading Dostoyevsky was sure worth the investment and I bet Solzhenitsyn would be too.
 
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pgp- I've enjoyed most of the <em class='bbc'>Reacher[/i] series, but the earlier entries displayed a glaring ignorance of cars and firearms. Harlin Cobin...oh man that sounds familiar, I just know I've read some of his but I can't remember....



Swanicyouth- Good on you for reading that, gotta admit I won't invest the time. Which might be a big mistake on my part, reading Dostoyevsky was sure worth the investment and I bet Solzhenitsyn would be too.
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Solzhenitsyn has a lot of much shorter books can read read in a day or two, like Cancer Ward. They are all quite good.



Gulag Archipelago is also available as an audiobook from Audible. The guy who reads it is excellent. I've listened to it a few times after I read it. It's great for a LONG car trip.
 
I have read a couple of Vince Flynn's books too. They are similar to the Jack Reacher series. I enjoyed them also. I have a few more on the to read bookshelf.
 
pgp- Heh heh, yeah Mich Rapp is just as, uhm... special.... as Jack Reacher.  I guess somebody could say that about Stephen Hunter's heros too :o 


 


Anybody read Brian Haig?  I enjoyed all of his stuff.
 
pgp- Yeah, Shooter is based on Hunter's Point of Impact.


 


Brian Haig is Alexander Haig's son and he's pretty good.  Doesn't require as much "oh, come on... :rolleyes: ..."-type suspension of disbelief as many writers.
 
thanes1- Welcome to Autopia!


 


Have you read that new (actually, it's supposedly the original) version of On the Road, the one that's, uhm....racier...than the version that got published?
 
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