Read any good books in the past?

[stevebody]

Ditto on the Clancy. Also love James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, and John Sandford in the mystery genre. LOVE "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella, "Handmaid's Tale", "100 Years of Cholera", Michael Ondaatje in general, everything pablo Neruda ever wrote (been chasing after that elusive spirit since 1978), and V.S. Naipaul, most everything. Theodore Sturgeon was a dear friend of mine and I still read his stuff and sit in awe. And my best friend, William R. Trotter, is a fine writer of histories and historical novels. ("Sands of Pride", Fires of Pride", "A Frozen Hell", "Winter Fire", and "Priest of Music" his bio of Dimitri Mitropolous. If you don't know his work, Amazon has most of it.