Summer reading suggestions

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Hi guys. I’m trying to carve out a little down time this summer, and want to focus my summer reading on three well known authors that I’ve just never gotten around to reading before. So I’d like your suggestions. If you had to choose just one book from each author that you think best represents their style and delivery, which book would it be?


1. Ernest Hemingway

2. Aldo Leopold

3. Cormac McArthy



Thanks guys!
 
kodiakjack said:
No, sorry. Reading all three authors, Ernest included, but which of his books is the most quintessential? If I only read one Hemingway book my whole life, which book should it be?
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well it is not easy. with no preferred order...

A Farewell to Arms
The Old Man and the Sea
Green Hills of Africa

as a kid i had all those in one book plus novel. a french edition.
 
I just finished “the land of feast and famine” by Helge Ingstad. It was a great read about trapping and living off the land in the nwt during the 1920s. You can get it off amazon

Dangerous river by RM Patterson is another good one. about the south nahanni region of the nwt
 
Big Cormac McCarthy fan. No Country for Old Men, The Road, Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy. Certainly not uplifting reads but worthwhile.
 
Although not on your list, he should be: Wilbur Smith.

Many good ones.
I started with "A Time To Die" as I had just recently returned from hunting the exact same African areas the tale occurs in.
A VERY worthwhile read.

Cheers,
Nog
 
I just re-read The Rainbow Chasers , Ervin Austin MacDonald
one of my favorite books and I live pretty much where the story takes place..... or just down the road aways anyhow
Made it a life quest to find and fish the many lakes mentioned in the book and try and find some of the old trapper cabins..... successfully too !!
I love the frontier stories
 
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