Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: CherokeeKC on August 21, 2011, 04:44:01 pm
-
I need to buy another book to read and wanted to get some ideas from you guys. So what are some of your favorite books or any suggestions on what to get? Anything along the lines of primitive, outdoorsy, hunting type stuff.
K.C.
-
You want fiction? Sci fi? Historical? Future? I love books.
One of my favorite series recently has been the Hunger Games. There's some archery...very distopian...kind of a sappy here and there but, over all, a really great set of books.
The Riftwar Sage and then the Serpent War Saga by Raymond Feist are up there for me.
Ender's Game, and then all the books about Bean are great by Orson Scott Card.
I'm currently reading all of the Percy Jackson (Riordan) and all the Gregor books (Suzanne Collins)...they're teeny/kid books but they're enjoyable and light to read.
I'm about to start the Book of God...it's the Bible in novel format. If I can find the Holy Qur'an in audiobook format I'll do that one, too (I just want to hear what's in it), and maybe that extra book the Mormons threw in there for kicks.
I could write book titles for days. What are you into reading?
-
I like a pretty broad range of books. I like non-fiction and fiction. I guess i am mainly looking for books on hunting,primitive skills, or any type of outdoors adventure books right now. I am pretty sure i read Ender's Game a long time ago.
-
Did you see this thread? http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,26997.0.html
(http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,26997.0.html)
George
-
I agree Bernard Cornwall's books are very good. I just finished his Agincourt novel and it was very entertaining....
-
Thanks guys. I just bought The Archers Tale and gonna start reading it tonight. Anyone can still chime in with their suggestions. I read alot and want to expand my library lol.
-
Hi all, I spend way too much time reading! It really cuts into my archery. Two of my favorite novels are 'The Old Man and the Sea' by Hemingway and 'Moby Dick'. No archery in either, but they both have something to say aboutthe chase and man's relation to the world. If you didn't read 'The White Company', by Sir A. Doyle, as a kid you might look that one up too.
Ron
-
Again not archery related. When I was 16 my dad gave me a copy of "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. Being a poor reader at the time coupled with it's 1100 pages, I put my copy of the book aside for years. When I was in the Army stationed in Germany in the 60s, married, with my wife in the states and not interested in the normal things GIs do for entertainment, I picked it up and started reading to pass the time. I was quickly absorbed into the struggles of the main character and couldn't put the book down. If any book shaped who I am today, I have to say it was that book with it's message of self reliance, honor and hard work to attain ones goals in life.
The book seems to be an ironic premonition that foretold what is going on in our country today.
-
My top favorites (currently, of course) in no particular order:
1. The Iron Dragon's Daughter, by Michael Swanwik: Steampunk and magic gone amoke. Really dark, but so well written, about a human slave who labors in a steam dragon factory.
2. The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool, Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen, MIT Press.
3. Roman Woodworking, Roger B. Ulrich, Yale University Press
4. The Ashley Book of Knots, Doubleday.
5. The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox, Kenji Ukuan, MIT Press
6. Case Study Houses: The Complete Program, 1945 - 1966, Taschen. The hardcover will cost you around $150, but worth it.
7. The Workbench Book: A Craftsman's Guide to Workbenches, Scott Landis, Taunton
8. Shelter, Shelter Publications. Very counterculture-y and facinating.
9. JRR Tolkien - all (except perhaps the Hobbit)
10. Gormenghast trilogy, Mervyn Peake. Can't speak highly enough about this writer and his works. Dark, very sophisticated gothic stuff. One of a kind brilliant mind, totally original and perhaps not for every taste, cut far too short.
-
Thanks for all the ideas!
-
How about Shogun by James Clavell?
Was forced to read this book at age 13 as part of my punishment for skipping school for two weeks.
Had a senior girlfriend that was writing my sick notes. :)
After forcing my way through the first two hundred pages I was gut hooked.
This book got me to learn to speak Japanese and add a hand made (truck leaf spring) katana to my creek hoppin possibles bag.
-gus
-
Ishi and Elvis, by Jim Hamm......Bows, Swamps, Whitetails. by Tim L. Lewis...this is about traditional bowhunting whitetails in Florida.
Also check out The University of South Carolina Press http://www.sc.edu/uscpress lots of good books there. Click on complete catalog and look under hunting and fishing. A Southern Sportsman, (The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis) is a good one as is Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden. Tales of Whitetails also.
-
Jean M. Auel's "Earth's Children" books, beginning with 'Clan of the Cave Bear'. She's got a new one out this year that I'll have to buy for my wife. Contains no speech as we know it today as it's based more than 25,000 years ago but my wife has recently (today) re-recommended them to me as they contain a lot of hunting, skinning, primitive living etc.
Got to buy the series again cos my wife's books were loaned to someone years ago and as happens in life, we've parted ways with that person...
-
I just read the first three books in the Underland Chronicles (Suzanne Collins). They're meant for early teens but they've been pretty entertaining. I've enjoyed them. They're light, very easy to understand, and the story is pretty good...if not short and to the point.
-
13 Moons is a gooder by the same author of Cold Mountain.
Hunting With The Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope.
Anything Robin Hood.
Bows Along the Little Delta by Glenn St.John
Possom Living
I like to go to the library and go to the kids section in the high 900s, maybe 993, and look for folk tales from around the world.
13 moons is Awesome, though, if you haven't heard of it. I listend to it on CD from the library, though.
-
On a non fiction note how about "On The Shoulders of Giants" by Stephen Hawking?
Been working on this one for a while. Some of it comes easy, some of it does not. :)
Also into the second volume of TBB and liking that quite a bit.
For Fiction/ Fantasy, I'm waiting on the final installment of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.
Pretty good set of books over all. Probably 10 to 20 thousand pages to be had with this series.
The series is being finished by Brandon Sanderson, using Jordan's notes and outlines.
Jordan having passed a couple of years ago.
"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever" are also a pretty good fantasy crawl
by Stephen R. Donaldson.
-gus
-
Have any of you met...
Jack Reacher..or
Virgil Flowers...or Doc Ford or
The Scarlet Shadow ...or maybe Terl or
my favorite Bob "the nailer " Swagger ? Just wondering. Try anything by Peter Hathaway Capstick they are all good. Out of the thousands of books I have read (old, damnit, real old) my two favorites are:
Bob, son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant published by Grosset and Dunlap circa 1898.
Hunters Horn_ Harriette Arnow-Library of Congress #78-67251 ISBN:0-380-42283-2 Published 1949.
Lane
-
The Raven King Trilogy By Stephen Lawhead.
Downs the Fire, Protector's War, and Meeting at Corvallis by S.M. Sterling
I haven't read it yet and it doesn't come out till sometime in February but The Forest Laird by John Whyte.
-
Downs the Fire, Protector's War, and Meeting at Corvallis by S.M. Sterling
I've read The Lord Protector's War by S.M. Sterling. Rolicking romp through post-Apocalyptic times complete with English men-at-arms, Oregon hippies shooting yew longbows (fairly well described, makes me think the author did some actual research), and decent descriptions of how cultures work. I did choke a bit at the neo-Paganism stuff, though.
P.C. Wren's classic Beau Geste is hard to beat for a mystery, stiff upper lip English glory and honor, and a look into turn of the 20th century English History
-
I just finished The Mad Trapper Of Rat River I thought it was a great book and a true story.
Josh
-
'The Old Man and the Sea' by Hemingway and 'Moby Dick'. Ron
For sure Ron. Short stories, To Build a Fire, The Sea Wolf, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Things they Carried..... Motorcycle Diaries
-
Just, To Build a Fire is a short story. The rest are novels.. and then there is Heart of Darkness and Metamorphosis
-
This is a good thread/
I like reading and there are lots of new ideas here for me.
-
I have just read "From Billets to Bows" by Glenn St Charles, and am now reading "The Art of Making Selfbows" by Stim Wilcox.
The former turned out to be more of a general historical American archery book - enjoyable and interesting, speaking/typing as an Englishman - but not really what I was expecting.
Stim Wilcox's book is far more of a technical nature, and much more what I was hoping for - very interesting! It can be a little heavy going occasionally, and there is some weak humour which can distract at times, but he does discuss all aspects of the making of self bows from wood cutting to the finished item in great detail. Again, from my view as an Englishman, Wilcox does narrow his range down to mainly discussing Osage flatbows (finding Osage is like finding hen's teeth in the UK!), but his experience and attention to detail shine through, and can be applied to all bows in my opinion. Expensive but worth it.
-
Then there is, Sounder, In Cold Blood, Crime and Punishment, All the pretty horses.
-
My favoriteis S.M. Stirling's trilogy "Dies the Fire", published by ROC:
1. Dies the Fire - published August 2004
2. The Protector's War - published September 2005
3. A Meeting at Corvallis - published September 2006
4. The Sunrise Lands - published September 2007
5. The Scourge of God - published September 2008
6. The Sword of the Lady - published 25 August 2009
7. The High King of Montival - published September 2010
8. The Tears of the Sun - to be published September 2011 [9 sample chapters]
9. Lord of Mountains - to be published 2012(?)
10. The Given Sacrifice - to be published 2013(?)
A trilogy set in the world that the island of Nantucket left behind when it became an "Island in the Sea of Time". This world is hit by "The Change" causing electricity, high gas pressures, and fast combustion (including explosives and gunpowder) to stop working.
In the series, modern-day Nantucket is thrown back in time to the Bronze Age. Dies the Fire chronicles the struggle of two groups who try to survive "The Change," a sudden worldwide event that alters physical laws so that electricity, gunpowder, and most other forms of high-energy-density technology no longer work. As a result, modern civilization comes crashing down.
This is very bad news for the majority of the population, but the books follow some of the survivors and show how different groups choose different ways to adapt to the changed world.
When gun's won't work time for the bow and arrow to become king. Lots of knife's and swords thrown in.
-
People of the Wolf series by Michael and Kathleen O'Neal-Gear - a somewhat archaeologically based series on the habitation of the Americas from the Bering straits.
-
My turn again... ;D
Anything by Jack London, short story or novel.
I love that guy's work.
-
fo sho.... Jack London is the man.. Bowtarist have you read the Sea Wolf and To Build a Fire??? Outstanding works...
An outstanding book that will give you a deeper understanding of Hispanic and Mexican/American customs, ideas and believes is, Bless Me Ultima
-
Sorry guys iv been without internet since the hurricane. Thanks for all the suggestions!
-
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell is a great book. Anything by Gary paulsen is good as well. He's all about survival and hunting and he's actually been in all the situations he writes about it. His autobiography guts is a great book. Its got lots of archery and hunting
-
"The Child Thief", don't know who it's by, I haven't read it, but I hear it is good. A story of Peter Pan, but a little more spooky then what we're used to. I'm wanting to find it on tape to listen to in the car. Don't forget about 13 Moons, it is awesome.
-
The Shack is a good read as well
-
criver, I've read "to build a fire", don't remember "she wolf"? Most of them I listen to on tape from the library when I drive. When I work for $$ it's usually far from home. :P
-
bowtarist, that story is great. I hear ya ;D The Sea Wolf is exceptional
Cipriano
-
I'm not much into fiction. Check out "The Lone Survivor" by Marcus Lutrell. I've read it several times and will read it again. Also- The Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers (or any of his books).
-
Peter Hathaway Capstick
Death in The Tall Grass and other titles. He was an African big game guide.
I went to the library to reread his books and they no longer have them.
Now I have to buy them, not all bad.
-
Yes Sir HoBow,
I have to second "That" on Lone Survivor.
Sometimes heart wrenching to read what happened to our boys, but Gripping and Up Lifting none the less.
Read the book several times and have the audio book on CD which I've shared with several folks on long driving trips.
The book is darn good, the audio book is Excellent.
-gus
-
Bowtarist, if you like Frazier, check out Ron Rash. One of our better regional writers-great Southern Appalachia-based stuff. Neuse, if you like Capstick (and who in their right mind wouldn't :) ) check out Jim Corbett's books about hunting maneaters in India if you already haven't read them.
-
My best recommendations (off the top of my head)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Short but powerful, Man and nature, some of the best ink ever put to paper)
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin (For my money, the best fantasy series ever written)
Cosmos by Carl Sagan (Still the best popular science book, can change the way you look at the world around you and the sky above you)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Seems like it would be bore, but it is a riveting study of morality and tense thriller)
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (In the same vein as Old Man and the Sea, just a great modern fable)
-
Ernest Hemingways "Islands in the stream" and Bourjaily's "Brill among the ruins" ' Frank