[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Norman R]

Could you narrow your field of interest a bit?  Bicycle related, adventure, 
philosophical, mind bending, etc.

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> Anyone have any good short novels they'd like to recommend? Thanks! 
> Michael 

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[mike gasparino]

I'm all over the board. Mystery,adventure,fantasy,crime,even love!

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[RJM]

I'm reading "Confederacy of Dunces" for the second time and really am 
enjoying it quite a bit. It's not short, but it is fun. 
 

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Philip Williamson]

My wife's novel is quite good! 
"Winter: Cricket and Grey" by Angelina Williamson. Poetic thriller, set in 
the near-ish future. 
Hardcover 
, 
trade 
paperback 
, 
or Kindle 
.
 
I did the editing and the book layout, so there's that. 

I highly recommend the William Gibson novel "the Peripheral," which is also 
a poetic thriller set in the near-ish future. Huh. 

Philip
www.biketinker.com

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Surlyprof]

One of my all-time favoites is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" 
by Robert Pirsig (read 4 times).  Also recently really enjoyed "Super, Sad, 
True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart.  A funny and horrifying vision of the 
future.  Seems extreme but, given the political and technological trends 
going on... not as far fetched as you would hope.  His writing was 
outstanding.  As much as I want to like Dave Eggers, "SSTLS" was way better 
than "The Circle" (IMO).

John


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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Surlyprof]

"Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel was pretty good, too.

John

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Stephen Kemp]

Some that I keep going back to:

The  Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Ask the Dusk by John Fante
The Thirty-Nine Steps  by John Buchan

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Bill Lindsay]

I enjoyed The Circle, bought from Riv.  It's short-ish, if not short

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Kevin Lindsey]

Not short, not free (that I know of), but definitely Riv: "Remembrance of 
Things Past" by Marcel Proust.  No particular end goal to the novel, you 
can't get to the finish line in a hurry, it's endlessly lovely, and there's 
no way to tackle it except in a leisurely, winding way.
Kevin

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[WETH]

*The Road*  by Cormac McCarthy
*On the Beach* by Nevil Shute

Two favorites of mine- a bit depressing however.

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Bob Cook]

*A Month in the Country* by JL Carr.

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[RobbeR49]

In the sci-fi & fantasy realm I would highly recommend anything by Jack 
Vance. Most of his novels are short.

For adventure Jim Corbett wrote a few books detailing his hunting of 
man-eating tigers and leopards in India that are quite good.




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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[cyclotour...@gmail.com]

Yeah, maybe just a bit depressing... might as well add *Cat's Cradle* to 
that list! :-) 

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> *The Road*  by Cormac McCarthy
> *On the Beach* by Nevil Shute
>
> Two favorites of mine- a bit depressing however.
>
> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 10:03:22 AM UTC-4, mike gasparino 
> wrote:
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>> Hi folks, 
>> Anyone have any good short novels they'd like to recommend? Thanks! 
>> Michael 
>
>

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[cyclotour...@gmail.com]

Awesome!

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> My wife's novel is quite good! 
> "Winter: Cricket and Grey" by Angelina Williamson. Poetic thriller, set in 
> the near-ish future. 
> Hardcover 
> , 
> trade paperback 
> , 
> or Kindle 
> .
>  
> I did the editing and the book layout, so there's that. 
>
>

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[sameness]

How about collections of short stories? Can't go wrong with some Barthelme, 
Joyce, Nabokov, Borges, Carver, or the James named Henry.

Jeff Hagedorn
Los Angeles, CA USA

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Surlyprof]

...and, maybe, "Nine Stories" by Salinger?

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> How about collections of short stories? Can't go wrong with some 
> Barthelme, Joyce, Nabokov, Borges, Carver, or the James named Henry.
>
> Jeff Hagedorn
> Los Angeles, CA USA
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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Bill Lindsay]

Nice!  I was going to go with the dual-novella offering "raise high the 
roofbeam, carpenters" + "seymour: an introduction".  I've been meaning to 
read that again.  

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> ...and, maybe, "Nine Stories" by Salinger?
>
> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 6:57:06 PM UTC-7, sameness wrote:
>>
>> How about collections of short stories? Can't go wrong with some 
>> Barthelme, Joyce, Nabokov, Borges, Carver, or the James named Henry.
>>
>> Jeff Hagedorn
>> Los Angeles, CA USA
>>
>

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Abcyclehank]

Many are overlooking a simplistic easy light read in the spirit if RBW.  There 
and back again(The Hobbit) by J.R.R. Tolkien promotes adventure, travel, 
camping, exploring and the parallels to touring and bonding with others for a 
greater good.

Ryan Hankinson
Spring Lake, MI 49456

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Justin August]

1491 - A look into pre-Columbian civilization from an objective, science-based 
standpoint. Truly fascinating. Truly dense. 
Between the World and Me  Ta-Nehisi Coates. A beautiful if not depressing 
statement about the current state and historical roots of American racism told 
as a letter from the author to his teenage son. Unforgettable and should be 
mandatory reading. 
The Girl on the Train. A thriller in the vein of Gone Girl.
. Interested in autism? Read this. 
Minimalism - The Essays. By "the Minimalists". A great primer to adjusting your 
worldview. 
Simplify by Joshua Becker
Zen Habits by Leo Babuta

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Michael Hechmer]

All the Light We Can Not See.  Not a short novel, but the very best novel I 
have read in a long, long time.

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Ryan Fleming]

+1 for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Superb writing. His other 
 book, Lila, I didn't like as much. Quite a tragic character, Pirsig

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> One of my all-time favoites is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" 
> by Robert Pirsig (read 4 times).  Also recently really enjoyed "Super, Sad, 
> True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart.  A funny and horrifying vision of the 
> future.  Seems extreme but, given the political and technological trends 
> going on... not as far fetched as you would hope.  His writing was 
> outstanding.  As much as I want to like Dave Eggers, "SSTLS" was way better 
> than "The Circle" (IMO).
>
> John
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 7:03:22 AM UTC-7, mike gasparino wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks, 
>> Anyone have any good short novels they'd like to recommend? Thanks! 
>> Michael 
>
>

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Norman R]

A novel I read recently about race in US (and Africa) by an African 
woman--great different POV:  
Americanah
Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh which I had been waiting for the third one 
to be published and it came from the library the day I was leaving for a 
two week vacation this summer--a perfect event.It takes place mainly in the 
lead up to the Opium Wars between England (and it's proxy India) and China. 
The first one which has an amazing sea journey which focuses on the 
language of the sailors (lascars) which in itself is worth the time spent 
reading it. The plot of characters and the historical fiction and 
descriptions of India and Canton are icing on the cake. The first book is 
called Sea of Poppies. 
(I like to read about different cultures.)
As for me, right now I'm looking at a lot of photo books. Saul Leiter, 
Richard Kalvar, Alex Webb.
So little time...


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> All the Light We Can Not See.  Not a short novel, but the very best novel 
> I have read in a long, long time.
>
> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 10:03:22 AM UTC-4, mike gasparino 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks, 
>> Anyone have any good short novels they'd like to recommend? Thanks! 
>> Michael 
>
>

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Ellis Dee]

If you like Steampunk novels, I just read a couple that were a lot of fun:

The Invisible Library by Genevive Cogman
Free-Wrench by Joseph Lallo

The Invisible Library is about a woman who travels to alternate universes 
to collect variations of the same book.  Quite an interesting concept!  
Free-wrench is kind of a post-apocalyptic world, and a woman who has 
adventures on airships.  Apparently some nuclear disaster has covered the 
world in poisonous purple fog, and everybody lives on mountain tops where 
the air is clear.  The only way to get anywhere is by blimp.

Both books are available for Kindle.

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[Andrew Marchant-Shapiro]

There are so many good books!  I would include *Infinite Jest* if you're a 
patient person (it has a *lot* of footnotes, so beware); *The Martian* 
(STBAMMP) by Andy Weir; *Where'd You Go, Bernadette?* by Maria Semple, 
almost anything by Neal Stephenson, but especially *Snow Crash* or *Zodiac*; 
*To Kill a Mockingbird* *and* *Go Set a Watchman *by Harper Lee; *Dahlgren* 
by Samuel R. Delany; *Dune* by Frank Herbert...

Andy ("So many books, so little time!") Marchant-Shapiro

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>
> If you like Steampunk novels, I just read a couple that were a lot of fun:
>
> The Invisible Library by Genevive Cogman
> Free-Wrench by Joseph Lallo
>
> The Invisible Library is about a woman who travels to alternate universes 
> to collect variations of the same book.  Quite an interesting concept!  
> Free-wrench is kind of a post-apocalyptic world, and a woman who has 
> adventures on airships.  Apparently some nuclear disaster has covered the 
> world in poisonous purple fog, and everybody lives on mountain tops where 
> the air is clear.  The only way to get anywhere is by blimp.
>
> Both books are available for Kindle.
>
> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 3:03:22 PM UTC+1, mike gasparino wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks, 
>> Anyone have any good short novels they'd like to recommend? Thanks! 
>> Michael 
>
>

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[RBW] Re: Novels???

[marshmonster]

I just read Childhoods End by Aurthur C. Clarke, would be happy to put it 
in the mail to you.
It was amazing.
There will be a mini series adaptation on SciFi later this fall.  

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wrote:
>
> There are so many good books!  I would include *Infinite Jest* if you're 
> a patient person (it has a *lot* of footnotes, so beware); *The Martian* 
> (STBAMMP) by Andy Weir; *Where'd You Go, Bernadette?* by Maria Semple, 
> almost anything by Neal Stephenson, but especially *Snow Crash* or 
> *Zodiac*; *To Kill a Mockingbird* *and* *Go Set a Watchman *by Harper 
> Lee; *Dahlgren* by Samuel R. Delany; *Dune* by Frank Herbert...
>
> Andy ("So many books, so little time!") Marchant-Shapiro
>
> On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 8:34:01 PM UTC-4, Ellis Dee wrote:
>>
>> If you like Steampunk novels, I just read a couple that were a lot of fun:
>>
>> The Invisible Library by Genevive Cogman
>> Free-Wrench by Joseph Lallo
>>
>> The Invisible Library is about a woman who travels to alternate universes 
>> to collect variations of the same book.  Quite an interesting concept!  
>> Free-wrench is kind of a post-apocalyptic world, and a woman who has 
>> adventures on airships.  Apparently some nuclear disaster has covered the 
>> world in poisonous purple fog, and everybody lives on mountain tops where 
>> the air is clear.  The only way to get anywhere is by blimp.
>>
>> Both books are available for Kindle.
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 3:03:22 PM UTC+1, mike gasparino 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi folks, 
>>> Anyone have any good short novels they'd like to recommend? Thanks! 
>>> Michael 
>>
>>

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RE: [RBW] Re: Novels???

[Allingham II, Thomas J]

Definitely fun.  Definitely not short.  ;-)

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I'm reading "Confederacy of Dunces" for the second time and really am enjoying 
it quite a bit. It's not short, but it is fun.


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RE: [RBW] Re: Novels???

[Allingham II, Thomas J]

Well, a brilliant and erudite classic combining mystery and romance is Gaudy 
Night, by Dorothy Sayers.  The only mystery I can think of where the crime is 
not a murder (thought there are some attempts).  Lord Peter Wimsey at his most 
human, but the better character is the heroine, Harriet Vane.

Or a mystery in an entirely different style:  The Big Sleep, by Raymond 
Chandler.  Hard-boiled, but often very funny.

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I'm all over the board. Mystery,adventure,fantasy,crime,even love!

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RE: [RBW] Re: Novels???

[Tony DeFilippo]

"Citizen of the Galaxy". Robert Heinlein.  

Funny, smart, irreverent towards government and organized religion...

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Re: [RBW] Re: Novels???

[Philip Williamson]

I would re-read both of these books in a heartbeat. 
I like the "Elvis Cole" novels by Robert Crais for a modernized LA crime 
thriller. Not quite as light a touch as Chandler, but a similar chivalric 
approach to the characters. 

Philip
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On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 11:53:46 AM UTC-7, Pudge wrote:
>
> Well, a brilliant and erudite classic combining mystery and romance is *Gaudy 
> Night*, by Dorothy Sayers.  The only mystery I can think of where the 
> crime is not a murder (thought there are some attempts).  Lord Peter Wimsey 
> at his most human, but the better character is the heroine, Harriet Vane.
>  
> Or a mystery in an entirely different style:  *The Big Sleep*, by Raymond 
> Chandler.  Hard-boiled, but often very funny.
>  
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> mailto:rbw-...@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of mike gasparino
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Re: [RBW] Re: Novels???

[Steve Palincsar]

On 09/16/2015 02:53 PM, Allingham II, Thomas J wrote:
Well, a brilliant and erudite classic combining mystery and romance is 
/Gaudy Night/, by Dorothy Sayers.  The only mystery I can think of 
where the crime is not a murder (thought there are some attempts).  
Lord Peter Wimsey at his most human, but the better character is the 
heroine, Harriet Vane.


Three cheers for LPW!  Although, personally, I prefer /Murder Must 
Advertise /and /The Nine Tailors./


Or a mystery in an entirely different style: /The Big Sleep/, by 
Raymond Chandler.  Hard-boiled, but often very funny.


A little something to go with that... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKmq9BivBL4   (actually, not /The Big 
Sleep/ but rather /Farewell My Lovely/)


And then, there's historical mystery.  Today, both LPW and R. Austin 
Freeman's Dr. Thorndyke qualify, because enough time has passed that the 
time periods they (at the time, contemporaneously) portray have become 
historical.  And if Rome's your thing, there are several terrific 
series.  Lindsey Davis' Marcus Didius Falco novels (starting with 
/Silver Pigs/) and now continuing with Flavia Albia; John Roberts 
Maddox's SPQR series; and of course Steven Saylor's Gordianius the 
Finder.  (Several others, too, but those are the major league.)  But no 
matter what your historical period, chances are you'll find someone 
writing historical mysteries about it.


And speaking about historical novels, I can't stop without mentioning 
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series.  I saw him in person once, at 
the Library of Congress.  He'd come to give a reading.  In the audience 
were several honest to god captains of real life tall ships, at least 
one of whom had come across the entire country to come see him.


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Re: [RBW] Re: Novels???

[Steve Palincsar]

Actually, John Maddox Roberts - sorry about that...

On 09/16/2015 03:58 PM, Steve Palincsar wrote:

John Roberts Maddox's SPQR series;


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Re: [RBW] Re: Novels???

[mike gasparino]

I'm going to the downtown bookstore tonight with a wish list! Thanks guys

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Re: [RBW] Re: Novels???

[Patrick Moore]

C. S. Lewis's "space trilogy" is worth reading, serially or separately. The
last, *That Hideous Strength,* has elements of deep black humor in addition
to its other literary merits.

(Eg, N. I. C. E. -- National Institute for Controlled Experiments;
administration helped by the new-tech Pragmatometer.)

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Re: [RBW] Re: Novels???

[Ryan Fleming]

Or (because I'm Canadian) Margaret Atwood's trilogy...*Oryx and Crake* 
(you'll never look at chicken fingers the same way), *After the Flood* and *Mad 
Addam. *

Quite a chilling  vision of the future because it's entirely plausible.

Also , as Steve P. noted, try the Patrick O Brien novels - exquisite 
writing, great characters, and beautiful sailing ships. And a good 
accompaniment is *A Sea of Words . * This is a very detailed glossary of 
all the nautical terminology, plus footnotes regarding late 18-19th century 
history, culture,...etc.

 Riv content...my pet name for my Rivendell road is The Nutmeg of 
Consolation ...something to do with the Harvest Gold frame and brown saddle 
and all.

On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 2:05:32 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote:
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> C. S. Lewis's "space trilogy" is worth reading, serially or separately. 
> The last, *That Hideous Strength,* has elements of deep black humor in 
> addition to its other literary merits.
>
> (Eg, N. I. C. E. -- National Institute for Controlled Experiments; 
> administration helped by the new-tech Pragmatometer.)
>
>

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