Favorites
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary KinderThis is a fatastic read for both for story-lovers and techno geeks. It's a *must* if you love the sea, or dream of finding lost treasure!
Catch-22
I love Catch-22
by Joseph Heller. While some people find the humor too absurd, it is
the whole pointof the story, that truth can be absurd, horrific
and funny all at the same time. FYI, don't bother with the movie. In
life, there is comedy and tragedy, ... and there is life & love in
both comedy and tragedy.
The Stand
Stephen King's The Stand
is a fantastic novel. Unfortunately, there have been so many
similarly themed doomsday movies and books over the years that The Stand now feels almost cliche. If you can put yourself into the book and forget the other copy-cats, you will absolutely love it
Nor Crystal Tears and Ice Rigger
Alan
Dean Foster's sci-fi novels are great! He has a style similar to Ursula
K. Leguin. You don't read one of his books, you experience it right
along side the characters. The character development is so good that
you can't wait to sink your teeth into a sequel to see what happens
next. I guess the followers of sci-fi fantasy books feel this
way, but after The Lord of the Rings and Sword of Shanara, I felt like
I had read them all, not so with ADF! He has also adpated many movies
into books. If you're an Aliens or Star Trek movie fan, then you
are already an ADF fan!
Athabasca by Alistair MacLean --of course, everything of his is great!
If
you enjoy mystery and/or techno-thrillers, check-out anything from
Alistair MacLean. He filled that Tom Clancy niche before there was a
Tom Clancy.
Clive Cussler, one of the best spy vs. spy writers that eventually overdid it and made his last dozen or more books from the same boilerplate. Read one of his first five or six, and you'll enjoy a winner. I read Raise The Titanic when it came out in the 1970's. People really wondered if it was possible to find the Titanic, and here was a guy raising it to the surface and showing us secrets we never imagined --very cool!
Jaws by Peter Benchly
Peter
Benchly's Jaws will keep you out of the water in your tub, it's just
that scarey! On film the Kitner boy simply disappears, but in the
book ...well, you'll just need to read it yourself, if you dare!
Essentials
We Almost Lost Detroit by John G. Fuller
How bad can nuclear power be?! Other than making tons of highly
radioactive material that we have no method for disposing of, what's the
problem?! The waste is barely the tip of the iceberg. Read this for
some really scarey facts!
The Day We Bombed Utah by John G. Fuller
Do want your HealthCare run by the same people who can't run the Post office? Read what happened to areas across the entire country as a result of nuclear bomb tests in the New Mexico desert. This is what happens when you play with something deadly but don't even remotely understand!
Biography of Captain James Cook
Since
I enjoy stories of the early explorers --the only part of history I
really absorbed like a sponge, the Biography of Capt. James Cook just
amazed me. But, you don't need to be a history buff to enjoy this book.
It's full of actual historical facts that is just mind blowing.
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Anyone
who has read this book will instantly find it a favorite. While it has
a disturbing dark side, the author actually sends you back in time to
when the U.S. was still evolving as a global force and our ingenuity
was decades ahead of the rest of the world. You will meet historic
characters and learn about aspects of American culture as though you
were actually living with them in 1892!