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TANSTAAFL58 said:
I'm not familiar with all of those. Perhaps a trip to the Library or the used book store is in order. A couple of those are due for a good movie remake. I wonder if the Thirty-Nine steps is the only best seller ever written by a representative of the Crown? Buchan was Governor-General of Canada.
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The Thirty Nine Steps was okay but Buchan's writing style is very dated. I can't say any of his books riveted me to the seat although Greenmantle was another I liked

I should have added "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and Rudyard Kiplings Kim to my list. Reread both of those every now and then too. And Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet"
 
I’m a chronic re-reader. It drives my wife crazy.

LOTR, plus most of Unfinished Tales every couple of years.
Dune, books 1, 5, and 6. And none of the modern prequel bullshit.
Irvine Welsh: Filth, Porno, and Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs.
Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.
Fitzgerald, a short story called “May Day”
Gaiman and Pratchett, Good Omens.
 
ChloeTzang said:
The Thirty Nine Steps was okay but Buchan's writing style is very dated. I can't say any of his books riveted me to the seat although Greenmantle was another I liked.
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I saw a very clever, very funny stage adaption of The Thirty-Nine Steps last year (the Hitchcock film rather than the book) where four actors played about 100 roles - quick change acting. Very, very funny. One actor played the lead, the other three playing every other character.
 
Rudyard Kipling?

His output was very variable. Some of his Indian short stories are good; some are dreadful. His books that I still re-read are Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies. They are supposed to be children's books but there are many stories suitable for adults too. His 'Stalky' books should be forgotten.

Two I missed off my list:

Thorne Smith: The Night Life of the Gods, Rain in the Doorway, and The Stray Lamb.

Richard Powell: Pioneer Go Home! (movie Follow That Dream with Elvis as the hero) and Don Quixote, U.S.A
 
I have reread quite a lot of books, over and over and over. Mostly based on the author of those books.

Robert A Heinlein - any & all
Gordon Dickson - any & all
Mack Reynolds - any & all
John MacDonald - Travis McGee - then entire color series
Anne McCaffery - Pern series
Robert B Parker - Jesse Stone series

I have read new books by other authors, but these few authors are my go to authors when I just need to get away from it all.
 
oggbashan said:
Rudyard Kipling? ... His 'Stalky' books should be forgotten. A
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There's something about Stalky in the back of my mind. He was based on a real person and my SO has a book by or about him in WW1 and I can't scratch that itch. Oz I'm at work. I'm going to look it up when I get home.
 
Zeb_Carter said:
Robert A Heinlein - any & all
Gordon Dickson - any & all
Mack Reynolds - any & all
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Keith Laumer - the Retief books
Poul Anderson - anything Flandry
James White - the space hospital books - I love those
Zenna Henderson - The People
Cordwainer Smith - The Underpeople
Anything by Tom Kratman.
Peter O'Donnell - the Modesty Blaise series. Dated but good
 
I haven't purposely reread anything. I have even always kept a list of what I've read so I can avoid that. I've probably read the first couple of pages of James Joyce's Ulysses three or four times but never gotten any further. I read and savor (an average of five books a month--I'm a slow reader), but it's mainly for entertainment now and I don't read to find style points.

I inevitably find plot inspirations from what I read, though. I also latch into authors and read them dry. Currently it's Andrea Camilleri, Donna, Leon, Michael Pearce, and Alexander McCall Smith. I usually read behind my wife, picking up whatever she's dropped on my nightstand. I read (and write) mainly fiction because I edit mainly nonfiction (foreign policy, terrorism, history) and wrote mainly foreign policy analysis for decades.
 
ChloeTzang said:
There's something about Stalky in the back of my mind. He was based on a real person and my SO has a book by or about him in WW1 and I can't scratch that itch. Oz I'm at work. I'm going to look it up when I get home.
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I think the last Stalky stories appeared in A Diversity of Creatures. The Complete Stalky and Co was not published until 1946. The 'real' people in Stalky (Lionel Dunsterville) M'Turk (George Charles Beresford) wrote accounts as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalky_**6_Co.
 
KeithD said:
I've probably read the first couple of pages of James Joyce's Ulysses three or four times but never gotten any further. .
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This made me laugh. This is, without doubt, the book I have most often tried to read but never finished. I'm determined to finish it someday. On a few tries I never got much past "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan . . . "
 
Forgot one (or four, depending on how you count the parts):

Lawrence Durrell - The Alexandria Quartet
 
SamScribble said:
Forgot one (or four, depending on how you count the parts):

Lawrence Durrell - The Alexandria Quartet
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That, and Graham Greene and C.P Snow's Stranger and Brothers series, are the only ones I've actually gone back to to look at and try to emulate technique.
 
oggbashan said:
I think the last Stalky stories appeared in A Diversity of Creatures. The Complete Stalky and Co was not published until 1946. The 'real' people in Stalky (Lionel Dunsterville) M'Turk (George Charles Beresford) wrote accounts as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalky_**6_Co.
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Found it in the military books bookcase (s). "The Adventures of Dunsterforce" by Lt Col Dunsterville. (Stalky). In late WW1 he commanded an ad hoc elite force the Brits threw together in Persia and launched north after the Russian front in the Caucasus against the Turks and Germans collapsed. I just skimmed it and it's a fascinating story. Plot bunnies galore there for something historical. Not a novel but what an adventure.

My beloved is looking askance at me coz I don't often read his military stuff.
 
A few people mentioned John D. McDonald and his Travis McGee series..picked up The Dreadful Lemon sky out of a desk drawer at a summer job I was bored at, and over the next few years read the entire series. I pick one up at random every so often, when I need some words of wisdom from the salvage consultant and his brainy pal Meyer.
 
Bhowani Junction by John Masters is one I come back and re-read every now and then. One of the main characters is an Anglo-Indian girl caught between two cultures st the end of the Raj and while it's set 75 years ago now, that caught between two cultures and races is something I feel a bit of empathy for and Mazters is a good writer.
 
Good Omens, by Pratchett and Gaiman.

By now, my lady love and I can quote bits of it from memory. It's one of those "at least once a year" books for us. Several other Pratchett books make the list as well, like "Soul Music" and "Moving Pictures".

We recently bought most of Pratchett's works as e-books so we don't have to replace our battered paperbacks all the time :)

Didn't know that Shibumi was so well known. I thought it was one of the better, but rather obscure thrillers with a Japanese twist from the 80s. I stole a couple of them (like Lustbader's Ninja or Miko) from my dad's bookshelf and Shibumi was among them. :)
 
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Blind_Justice said:
Didn't know that Shibumi was so well known. I thought it was one of the better, but rather obscure thrillers with a Japanese twist which were popular during the 80s. I stole a couple of them (like Lustbader's Ninja or Miko) from my dad's bookshelf and Shibumi was among them. :)
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I remember Eric Lustbader's Ninja book. Granted, I was a horny pre-teen and immediately recall the scene of the two girls getting one another off by blasting the shower-head inside each other, but I do indeed remember it.
 
ChloeTzang said:
Bhowani Junction by John Masters is one I come back and re-read every now and then. One of the main characters is an Anglo-Indian girl caught between two cultures st the end of the Raj and while it's set 75 years ago now, that caught between two cultures and races is something I feel a bit of empathy for and Mazters is a good writer.
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I prefer two of his other novels:

The Deceivers
The Venus of Konpara
 
I don't read much fiction any more. When I did, I made a point out of not rereading. The lone exception I can think of is Asimov's Foundation trilogy.
 
ChloeTzang said:
Keith Laumer - the Retief books
Poul Anderson - anything Flandry
James White - the space hospital books - I love those
Zenna Henderson - The People
Cordwainer Smith - The Underpeople
Anything by Tom Kratman.
Peter O'Donnell - the Modesty Blaise series. Dated but good
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Yes Retief, but also Laumer's Bolo series that several other writes picked up an continued with. I wrote one along those lines. Perhaps I should post it on Lit in the Sci-fi cat?

Oh...and David Drake - Hammer's Slammers series.
 
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Zeb_Carter said:
Yes Retief, but also Laumer's Bolo series that several other writes picked up an continued with. I wrote one along those lines. Perhaps I should post it on Lit in the Sci-fi cat?

Oh...and David Drake - Hammer's Slammers series.
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Love David Drake - the Lt Leary series. My partner has all the Hammers Slammers ones. We merged our respective SF collection so now it's hard to tell whose is whose but we overlap a lot
 
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