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Post by brobear on Aug 10, 2020 2:48:02 GMT -5
The Jungle Book The Second Jungle Book TARZAN OF THE APES THE RETURN OF TARZAN THE BEASTS OF TARZAN THE SON OF TARZAN TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN TARZAN THE UNTAMED TARZAN THE TERRIBLE TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION TARZAN AND THE ANT MEN TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE TARZAN THE INVINCIBLE TARZAN TRIUMPHANT TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD TARZAN AND THE LION MAN TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN TARZAN AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT TARZAN AND THE FOREIGN LEGION TARZAN AND THE MADMEN TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS TARZAN AT THE EARTH’S CORE TARZAN’S QUEST ( a long list of other Edgar Rice Burroughs novels ) The Doc Savage books. The Conan Books by Robert E. Howard. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood The Three Musketeers Treasure Island Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Dracula Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus ( to name a few )
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Aug 10, 2020 3:33:07 GMT -5
Good books. I will post my list later. Moby Dick was among my favourites. I wished there was a book called Tarzan and the Silver grizzly. Sadly that book does not exist.
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Post by brobear on Aug 10, 2020 3:55:30 GMT -5
Good books. I will post my list later. Moby Dick was among my favourites. I wished there was a book called Tarzan and the Silver grizzly. Sadly that book does not exist. TARZAN AT THE EARTH’S CORE... the ape-man fights with a cave bear. Only bear of the 24 novels. There is not a single book in the set that I read only once.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Aug 10, 2020 4:29:05 GMT -5
/\ Who won between the ape man and cave bear ?
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Post by brobear on Aug 10, 2020 4:45:16 GMT -5
/\ Who won between the ape man and cave bear ? In the vast inner-earth land of prehistoric beasts ( Pellucidar ) Tarzan was being chased by a huge cave bear. As a kid, I remember thinking, "Tarzan never ran from a lion". But he was running from the bear until his pride got the better of him. So he managed to climb up above the bear ( on the side of a mountain ) and ambushed the bear from above, killing the bear with his hunting knife.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Aug 10, 2020 5:13:14 GMT -5
Alright. There is definitely some fiction there. Attacking a much larger and stronger cave bear is dangerous even by ambush given cave bears have flexible forearms.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Aug 10, 2020 6:14:16 GMT -5
- Moby Dick
- White Fang
- Tarzan
- Jungle Book
- Free Willy
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Post by brobear on Aug 10, 2020 17:59:41 GMT -5
- Moby Dick
- White Fang
- Tarzan
- Jungle Book
- Free Willy
I read both "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" by Jack London. Great Books. Also "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twin.
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Post by brobear on Aug 18, 2020 4:51:45 GMT -5
I've been wrong a time or two. I remember seeing this book on the bookshelf at the bookstore. On the cover was this skinny kid holding a magic wand. I thought to myself, "that book will never sell". Several years later, everyone is talking about Harry Potter. I remember seeing this book on the bookshelf at the bookstore. On the cover was this big shark swimming straight-up towards a young lady swimming. I thought to myself, "how scary can a shark be? Its a fish". Next thing I know, everyone is talking about Jaws. I little more recently I read a book titled, "Flint and Silver" which ( IMO ) should be a popular novel and a movie. Very well written. It is a prequel to "Treasure Island". In Robert Lewis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" the story is pretty much just a middle portion of a story. "Flint and Silver" answers a lot of questions such as, "why is the pirate called 'Long John?', how did he lose his leg?, how does he happen to own a parrot named 'Capt. Flint?", how did he become a pirate?, why did he bury the treasure on the island?" and other questions answered.
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Post by tom on Sept 3, 2020 11:07:03 GMT -5
Brobear may be the only one to remember this book series called "The Hardy Boys". Read many of the series books. Once started they were hard to put down.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Sept 3, 2020 11:33:38 GMT -5
I used to read this book as a child over and over again.
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Post by brobear on Sept 3, 2020 13:18:30 GMT -5
Brobear may be the only one to remember this book series called "The Hardy Boys". Read many of the series books. Once started they were hard to put down. And for the girls there was Nancy Drew.
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Post by brobear on Sept 4, 2020 0:14:06 GMT -5
My Dad only read two categories of books; Westerns and War ( Cowboys and Combat ). He had a really nice set of hardback Zane Grey novels. I read quite a few of those. But mostly he was reading paperback novels; some by Louis L'Amour. So yeah, I read my share of those.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Sept 18, 2020 23:21:41 GMT -5
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Sept 18, 2020 23:25:27 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Sept 24, 2020 5:14:38 GMT -5
I also read "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and "The Time Machine".
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Post by brobear on Sept 29, 2020 14:16:20 GMT -5
I also read "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and "The Time Machine". Remembering more: I read; "Peter and Wendy" by J.M. Barrie. Actually not a bad read. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" - ( IMO ) the book sucked; the movie is much better. They used only the best parts of an over-long story. "Swiss Family Robinson" - ( IMO ) the book sucked; the Disney movie much better. "Alice in Wonderland" - I enjoyed this one. I read the Roy Rockwood's "Bomba, the Jungle boy" series of 20 books. As a boy, I enjoyed. But not so great a writer as Kipling or Burroughs. During the 1970s, I enjoyed paperback novels of "Doc Savage", "The Shadow", and Lee Falk's "The Phantom". ( all Pulp Fiction heroes ). "Old Yeller" - the movie pretty-much mirrored the book. I also read "Black Beauty", "The Black Stallion", and other horse and dog stories that I cannot remember the titles to.
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Post by brobear on Oct 22, 2020 17:25:47 GMT -5
I think every boy ( or young man ) should read the classics such as Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Old Yeller, Black Beauty, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and so much more. To not read the classics is like living with Amnesia; because you're missing out on a huge piece of culture ( never having the experience is no different than an amnesia victim forgetting ). You are left with an unfilled void. *Note: comic book versions and movies are not acceptable replacements.
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Post by brobear on Jan 16, 2021 3:32:43 GMT -5
Bomba the Jungle Boy by Roy Rockwood. A 20-book series. I had nearly forgot about these.
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Post by brobear on Feb 8, 2021 12:47:07 GMT -5
I also read "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and "The Time Machine". BORN ON THIS DAY: Jules Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
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