Do you have a Favorite book?

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Just wondering if anyone has a favorite book and what it is and what it's about...

Mine is "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" by writer and pilot Richard Bach (he also wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull). It's the story of Donald Shimoda, a mechanic, and Richard, the guy who met him in a cornfield, and the conversations they had while barnstorming. A couple quotes from the book:

"Of course you can quit! Quit anything you want, if you change your mind about doing it. You can quit breathing, if you want to.' He floated a Phillips screwdriver for his own amusement."

“This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.”

You can read it online or listen to it on youtube if you don't want to buy it!
 
"Razzle Dazzle" by Hank Messick
It about the illegal gambling that took place in Northern Kentucky until the mid 1960's and the efforts to end it.
 
73 dart custom said:
Sounds interesting!
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I had the privilege to be permitted to go thru sme of his notes.
He had written a small piece about the mob in the area and Bobby Kennedy.
I perused the works, and actually wrote a small book about this. However, I ran into the same issues I'm certain he did. I was unable to obtain reliable sources, so it sits.
 
Materese Circle by Robert Ludlum.
I have read a lot of Ludlum's books, but this was the best.
Our best spy winds up working with Russia's best spy. They are working to find and destroy an international cartel bent on world domination. And of course, their governments are against them working together and are after them too. VERY GOOD.
 
My favorite book ever is my 1970 Plymouth factory service manual. Loaded with assembly line adventure and pics of tools they used to assemble everything. Everytime I read it cover to cover I learn something new.

No, I am not joking, i really have read it cover to cover
 
73 dart custom said:
Just wondering if anyone has a favorite book and what it is and what it's about...

Mine is "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" by writer and pilot Richard Bach (he also wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull). It's the story of Donald Shimoda, a mechanic, and Richard, the guy who met him in a cornfield, and the conversations they had while barnstorming. A couple quotes from the book:
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read that around 40 years ago. "the best way to avoid responsibilities to to say i have responsibilities". use it at work all the time :D

Rainy Day Auto said:
My favorite book ever is my 1970 Plymouth factory service manual. Loaded with assembly line adventure and pics of tools they used to assemble everything. Everytime I read it cover to cover I learn something new.

No, I am not joking, i really have read it cover to cover
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i enjoy the hell out of reading service manuals

too many books i like, but to nudge the yougins, Red Wind by Raymond Chandler
"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."
 
Never had the patience to sit down and read a novel or anything like that. I do absolutely love OLD automotive mechanics books that detail old school building methods and the like. I have a "fairly good" collection.
 
I love to read. I usually have several books going at once. Novels are ok but I prefer non fiction stuff. I am about done with “the great bridge” by David McCullough.
 
Break out, it is about the battle around the chosen area in Korea, really explains the battle,
 
Rainy Day Auto said:
My favorite book ever is my 1970 Plymouth factory service manual. Loaded with assembly line adventure and pics of tools they used to assemble everything. Everytime I read it cover to cover I learn something new.

No, I am not joking, i really have read it cover to cover
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Ha ha! For Christmas, when I was 14, my parents got me the FSM for my '65 Mustang (the car's been in my family since '68), and I read it cover to cover as well.

I'm a high school English teacher, so I read a lot of classics, but I go through periods where I read nothing but books about cars. I'm going through one right now; this summer I've read a couple of volumes of Graham Robson's books about Rolls-Royces.
 
Rainy Day Auto said:
My favorite book ever is my 1970 Plymouth factory service manual. Loaded with assembly line adventure and pics of tools they used to assemble everything. Everytime I read it cover to cover I learn something new.

No, I am not joking, i really have read it cover to cover
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Nothing wrong with learning while enjoying a good read!!!
 
kursplat said:
read that around 40 years ago. "the best way to avoid responsibilities to to say i have responsibilities". use it at work all the time :D
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I thought I was the only person who ever read that book!!!! Yep, a lot of good advice in it for sure!
 
jas0162 said:
I love to read. I usually have several books going at once. Novels are ok but I prefer non fiction stuff. I am about done with “the great bridge” by David McCullough.
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If you haven't yet, you should read his book on the Wright Brothers.
 
Years ago .. "The Stand" ..Steven King ..first book I had time to read in years. So amazingly descriptive that it got me back into reading again. It's a post- apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel. :eek: ...Steven King, so what else.. :)
 
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The great Gatsby
Malcolm-x
All of Tim Dorsey books about Florida they are as funny as they get...
All the Louis L'Amour Cowboy books I can get my hands on...
 
A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith
Historical fiction about a Florida family from 1858 to 1968.

Everglades: River of Grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
 
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j par said:
All of Tim Dorsey books about Florida they are as funny as they get...
All the Louis L'Amour Cowboy books I can get my hands on...
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If you like Louis L'Amour and Dorsey you need to read A Land Remembered.
 
Do porno magazines count? Asking for a friend...

I bad with remembering authors,
But On wheels was one of my favourites.
As a teenager i read science fiction, like a novel a day.
Conan series
Cronicles of Gor
I couldnt put down a novel once i picked it up.
 
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