I have all of Heinlein and much of Shute, always looking for more. Shute's In The Wet and Round The Bend have had major influences upon my thinking about politics and sprituality(NOT The Spirit World but spirituality rather than religion), respectively. IMO reading Heinlein is always a quick refresher on the libertarian values that I espouse. And it's obvious that he knew guns.
Another UK author I really like is Jack Whyte. Absolutely nothing to do with guns at all, his Camulod Chronicles have absorbed me for several years now. I've already long since read all the other Arthurian retellings beginning with Malory and I gotta say that IMO Whyte's Camulod series just blows the others away. It's as good IMO as if Patrick O'Brian or Wilbur Smith had written them. Different of course but IMO definitely in the same class of meticulous historian/splendid storyteller.
Possibly my favorite fiction book so far is Robinson Crusoe. Says a lot about my essential character, I'm sure.
Regards, Joe
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