Oh, and Two Years Before the Mast too. A good one -- + 1. On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 12:06 PM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know many don't shop at Amazon, but I figure that out-of-copyright > classics on Kindle are legitimate. Many are very, very cheap if not free. I > recently spent ~$34 and got about 15 books, some adventure stories > including a digital 4-pak by RL Stevenson, of which I'm now re-reading > Treasure Island. I have to say that reading quality trash is a hellofalot > better than reading cheap trash like David Baldacci. > > Likewise, but a year or so ago, I got the collected works of Rudyard > Kipling and many Jack London novels, not to mention 2 or 3 collections of > long-forgotten sea adventure stories. Joshua Slocum, tho' that's history. > And besides adventure, lots of poetry, Dickens and Tolstoy--but my stomach > for novelistic drama is much smaller than 40 years ago; I prefer > thoughtless adventure stories like Treasure Island and, I recall here, RLS > himself described TI as, to paraphrase, "An uncomplicated story with no > literary complexities for boys." But girls may like it too. > > Both Alices, Waugh X 5, and many more. > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 8:15 PM J Imler <imler3...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Recently I noticed the book, *The Long Walk*, in a thread with a holiday >> flyer linked, or an older catalog maybe. I'm enjoying the true story. Years >> ago, I was at Bike, Book, & Hatchet and Grant recommended *In the Heart >> of the Sea* and a book about the Galveston hurricane. And one other I >> just remembered *The Devil in the White City*. >> >> I've enjoyed reading most of these types of books, that involve >> adventure/danger/even death, like *Into Thin Air*. >> >> Would anyone care to share any other novels that you'd recommend as the >> darker months loom? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4f736262-709c-4fd8-b8e4-c60515385364n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4f736262-709c-4fd8-b8e4-c60515385364n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvC_6jA-fjguuTcgSGXxY4ZopvPECEmGqLRaaedgM6LFg%40mail.gmail.com.
