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Books about our favorite past times, e.g. boating, fishing, the sea etc. Fiction or non, doesn't matter. I'm looking for ideas for gifts and for myself over the winter. What book(s) would you recommend and why?
This isn't boating related but Dan Brown's Angels and Demons is just as good if not better than The DaVinci Code. I know, I know......bandwagon. It really is a good book though.
I agree with the above about Dan Brown. Those are his 2 best books. I didn't like some others (ther one about the master computer going haywire)
Personally I recommend Anything by Nelson DeMille. I haven't met anyone that didn't like Plum Island (boating related), Gold Coast and especially Up Country. Read the comments and reviews on Amazon.
I'll check my list at home for some other authors you can't go wrong with.
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What I really enjoyed, simple reading, all about fishing, boats, islands, escaping real life and warm weather is Jimmy Buffett's "A Pirate Looks at Fiftty." It's an awesome story about what he wants to do for his 50th birthday. He gives enough stories of the past that we can all relate to....hating school, loving summer vacation and not wanting to grow up.
My last Books where Carry the Wind and Border Lords by Terry C. Johnston. Fictional about the old West in the Trapping and Hunting days of the Mountain Men..First two in a Trilogy and I didnt get to the third yet..
I'm waiting for FUBAR to finish his book and get it out to us...I KNOW THAT WILL BE A GREAT BOOK!!!!!......(FUBAR ya hear me? hint!! hint!)...Clancy and Cussler are a few of my favorites but they haven't done much lately.......
Work is for people who don't know who to fish!!!!!!
"I broke out of the grip of Catholicism and made it through adolescence without killing myself in a car. I flunked out of college. I learned to play the guitar, lived on the beach, lived in the French Quarter, finally got laid, and didn't go to Vietnam. I got back to school, started a band, got a job on Bourbon Street, graduated from college, flunked my draft physical, broke up my band, and went on the road. I signed a record deal, got married, moved to Nashville, had my guitars stolen, bought a Mercedes, worked at Billboard magazine, put out my first album, went broke, met Jerry Jeff Walker, wrecked the Mercedes, got divorced, and moved to Key West. I sang and worked on a fishing boat, went totally crazy, did a lot of dope, met the right girl, made another record, had a hit, bought a boat and sailed away to the Caribbean.
"I started another band, worked the road, had my second and last hit, bought a house in Aspen, started spending summers in New England, got married, broke my leg three times in one year, had a baby girl, made more records, bought a bigger boat and sailed away to St. Barts.
"I got separated from the right girl, sold the boat, sold the house in Aspen, moved back to Key West, worked the road and made more records. I rented an apartment in Paris, went to Brazil for Carnival, learned to fly, went into therapy, quit doing dope, bought my first seaplane, flew all over the Caribbean, almost got a second divorce, moved to Malibu for more therapy and got back with the right girl.
"I worked the road, moved back to Nashville, took off in an F-18 from an aircraft carrier, bought a summer home on Long Island, had another baby girl. I found the perfect seaplane and moved back to Florida. Cameron Marley (his son) joined me in the house of women. I built a home on Long Island, crashed the perfect seaplane in Nantucket, lived through it thanks to Navy training, tried to slow down a little, woke up one morning and I was looking at 50, trying to figure out what comes next."
"The Scout" and "Brules", both by "Harry Combs". Both about the west and Indian fighting,and an interesting slant on the Custer massacre.
Anything by- "Stephen Hunter"--Black light --Dirty White Boys -- Master Sniper--etc.
For a little outrageous humor, you might try some of "Tom Robbins" early works-such as -"Still Life-With Woodpecker" or "Another Roadside Attraction".
I'm right in the middle of "Stephen Kings" "The Dark Tower VII". The last book in the series. I'm sorry to see it end too. I have really enjoyed that whole series,plus several of his other books like-"The Stand" and "The Green Mile".
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agulhas got it....sailing alone around the world....joshua slocum....fairhaven mass....first guy to do it, written like a regular guy would write a book, a good read
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Read any good books lately? 
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