Posted: 5/29/2008 9:12:26 AM EDT
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i was just informed that i have to fly to Montreal this weekend. i am going out this weekend to buy a book to read while at the airports and on the plane. so lets have it, whats good? thanks SD |
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Rouge Warrior-Marcinko To Ride,Shoot Straight and Speek the Truth-Cooper Patriots-Rawles Death In ************** - Capstick The Last Gunslinger-King Unintended Consequences-Ross Licensed To Kill-Pelton Enders Game-Card America's Secret War-Friedman How To Talk To A Liberal-Coulter Silent Warrior-Henderson Bravo Two-Zero- McNabb and Scientific Progress Goes Boink-Waterson  (Calvin And Hobbes)
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 Now I've done it. If you don't want to offend the faithful by reading my suggestion, try reading anything by Cormac McCarthy. I liked No Country for Old Men and The Road. |
Here's a book report to help:
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Point of Impact (1993) Chronological order: Fifth Hunter had sold his first book, Master Sniper, in 1980, so he'd been an author for 13 years and five novels prior to embarking on the Bob Lee Swagger stories. Swagger is probably in his early- to mid-30's in this book. There is brief mention of Swagger's late father. The town sheriff, he'd been killed in a shootout, but not before first killing the bad guy, one Jimmy Pye. It begs the question: Does Hunter plot books years in advance? Dirty White Boys (1994) Chronological order: Sixth Bob Lee Swagger does not appear in DWB, but if he did he would be around 45, after Point of Impact but before Black Light. Our protagonist, Bud Pewtie, is an Oklahoma highway patrolman in the early 1990's, trying to stop bad guy Lamar Pye. Is a "Swagger" book - barely - due to cameo appearance by Earl Swagger, Bob Lee's father. Earl is the lawman who had stopped Lamar's father Jimmy from a crime spree years ago. Kind of like out-laws instead of in-laws. Black Light (1996) Chronological order: Third It's after Point of Impact, and Bob Lee reads to me like he's maybe pushing 50. But the story is really about events that occurred when Bob Lee was 10 years old. Bud Pewtie's 20-somthing son is troubled by the events of Dirty White Boys, and convinces Bob Lee to join his search for the story of Earl Swagger. Chronologically first because much of the book is written in the present tense during Earl Swagger's last days. Time To Hunt (1998) Chronological order: Fourth This is the story of Bob Lee's Vietnam Experience. Bob is in his early to mid-20's, although it is recollected as narrative that accompanies a current adventure Swagger has in the late 1990's... As with all the Swagger books, the definitive ending appears to leave no chance for a viable sequel. (sure!) Hot Springs (2000) Chronological order: First Bob Lee makes only a short cameo appearance in this one, as a newborn baby. The story is written in a linear timeline with minimal flashbacks and forths. It is about Earl Swagger's return from World War 2, and we learn about Bob Lee's grandfather Charles as Earl excises the demons of his youth. Pale Horse Coming (2001) Chronological order: Second This is a sequel to Hot Springs, set four years later. Bob Lee is five - old enough for Hunter to develop his character already. We learn that Bob Lee prefers the darkest of Grimm's Fairy Tales... ^ TOP Do it right and start with Hot Springs. |