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Author Topic: Favorite Book or Author  (Read 2579 times)

Offline Scioto

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Favorite Book or Author
« on: January 12, 2010, 07:45:00 PM »
I am looking for some reading suggestions to pass the winter.  What is your favorite book(s) or author?  I am currently reading Gene Wensels new book, which I highly recommend and anxiously awaiting the arrival of Barry's which I expect to be just as good.  Thanks for any suggestions!

Jeff

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2010, 07:46:00 PM »
Archery related only?

Offline **DONOTDELETE**

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2010, 07:50:00 PM »
Stephen King, everything He put out I can read..

Offline L82HUNT

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2010, 07:55:00 PM »
David Petersen, really enjoy his books, Im waiting on "Ghost Grizzles" now.

Offline LongbowGuy83

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 07:55:00 PM »
I just read Love of the Hunt by John Winsor. It's not very long. About 264 pages of his different hunts. Mostly longbow hunts but some rifle. Good book.
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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2010, 07:58:00 PM »
Dean Torges, Don Thomas.

Each writes about the sport I love as no one else, and communicates in a way that is really special.

Mike Mitten's "One with the Wilderness" is another wonderfully written book that tells a great story... and teaches some GREAT lessons...

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2010, 07:59:00 PM »
If its archery everything,If not JRR Tolken from the Hobbit to the Cimerarilian.After than Jimmy Buffet (Joe Merchant,pirate looks at 50,tales from margaritaville,jolly mon)ok I'm done.   :readit:    :coffee:
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Offline Biggie Hoffman

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2010, 08:00:00 PM »
Pat McManus.....I wake my wife at night laughing...
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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2010, 08:28:00 PM »
James Lee Burke, not archery but writes like Louis L'Amour inasmuch he describes his environment in detail,setting each scene in your mind.My brother-in-law gave me two paperbacks a year ago by C.J. Box.His main character is a game warden.I wasn't too enthused about reading them so they sat on a shelf for a year.I picked them up this past week and read both books in two days.Great stories I'll have to get more books by him.
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Offline GingivitisKahn

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2010, 08:38:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Biggie Hoffman:
Pat McManus.....I wake my wife at night laughing...
+1 I love that guy.  :-D

Offline Sam McMichael

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2010, 08:42:00 PM »
Gene Hill and Havilah Babcock were not archers but wrote good hunting stories. Have you found any of the older books such as Archers Bible that were written when we were younger, and the wheelie bows were not around yet? I also read a lot of wilderness survival material, not that I expect be lost in the wild, but you can sometimes pick up some nifty woods lore that way. Howard Hill is my archery hero, so I read a lot of the stuff about him. If the primitive camping/hunting idea interests you, take a look at the Book of Buckskinning - there is a whole series of these books dealing with recreating the frontier scene. Not much archery in them but it sure does fire the imagination.

I can't recommend too much fiction, since I don't read it, but have several hundred books on military history.
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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2010, 08:53:00 PM »
Cormac McCarthy    :thumbsup:
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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2010, 08:57:00 PM »
Where the red fern grows, Buckskin and Bone,
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Offline LongbowGuy83

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2010, 09:00:00 PM »
If it doesn't have to be archery related then Louis L'Amour is the best author to ever move a pen in my opinion. I own all but 4-5 of his books. Great books
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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2010, 09:10:00 PM »
Hard to beat Don Thomas for writing bout trad bow hunting, or anything else for that matter.  I also second Gene Hill if you like to hunt birds with a smoke pole or fish trout with a fly rod.

Offline Benny Nganabbarru

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2010, 09:15:00 PM »
Don Thomas.
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Offline Jmgcurve

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2010, 09:18:00 PM »
Longbow Country by Don Thomas is hard to beat even though I have all of Louis L'Amour's works.
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Offline caleb7mm

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2010, 09:23:00 PM »
Peter Hathaway Capstick

death in the long grass, greatest book ever.
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Offline EricW

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2010, 09:24:00 PM »
"Where the red fern grows, Buckskin and Bone,"
Jimmy where the red fern grows is one of my all time favorites. can't tell you how many times i have read that book.
Just started reading some of William W Johnstone's The mountainman series. Very good books.

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Re: Favorite Book or Author
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2010, 09:26:00 PM »
The Last River Rat,  Kenny Salwey's life in the wild.  Written by Scott Bestul and Kenny Salwey
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