I couldn’t get enough of Tom Clancy loved every one of his books.
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I love the older Tom Clancy books, loved the way multiple storylines were included in the same book. The newer novels written by ghost writers are OK but they aren’t as complex as the originals.
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Totally agree read a couple of those. Then found Patrick O’Brian and Bernard Cornwell. Before all of them Wilbur Smith.
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My favourite author is Iain M. Banks who is the writer of The Culture series of novels. They are extremely well thought out, very complex Sci Fi novels. Unfortunately he died just short of his 60th birthday.
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Well not so scifi like, one of my best re-reads, is a small book. In Stahlgewitter - from Ernst Jünger
english - The Storm of Steel
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I could never get enough Clive Cussler, back when Clive Cussler wrote them.
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Hollywood needs to cutback on the garbage they crank out and do an epic based on CC’s Raise the Titanic. Dirk Pitt would make a cool new action hero on the big screen as written by CC.
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The movie they did make back in 1980 was pretty disappointing after reading the book.
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I’d forgot about that one.
Definitely, agree!
Not only didn’t it live up to the book, it wasn’t in the same zip code.
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Same goes for McConaughey’s Sahara
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@Tojo72 is that Sahara film any good i heard some of the guys talking about at work?
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IMHO, if you liked the books or Clive, no. If not familiar with source or author, maybe.
Cussler himself sued the filmmakers over how they butchered his story, which tells you a lot. He said they ignored the script he approved and changed key elements of the plot and characters.
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It was okay on its own,action type film,some humor,but not good compared to the book.
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Reading Chickenhawk (again) by Robert Mason, and got the 13th vally going on Audible. Also enjoying the AK books, American armour and artillery in Vietnam books and a visual history of Gun trucks
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Welcome aboard Simon.
Welcome to the forum, Simon!
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Welcome along Simon!
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Thanks for the welcome 
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@SimonB welcome to the site, as you like the vietnam war and like listening about it as well, i would recommend bud gibson “reconnaissance podcasts” he focuses on MACV-SOG but does branch out to other special forces in vietnam.
also free on spotify is SOGCAST run by John Stryker Meyer was with CCN MACV-SOG well worth listening to.
oh and check out some of Jocko Willink sog podcasts the ones about Lynne Black and the Frenchman will blow your mind.
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