I am still enjoying this thread very much. So many writers & books that I have never before encountered. I shall make a list and head off to the library in Eureka.

Does anybody still read John D. MacDonald and his Travis McGee novels? Or Ernest K. Gann? "Twilight for the Gods" is one of my favorites. Were you a USN white hat in times past? Richard McKenna's "The Sand Pebbles" is the best sailor story ever.

I just bought copies of Farley Mowat's "Lost in the Barrens" and "The Curse of the Viking Grave". My shooting companion's grandson is age 12 and bored, bored, bored. He thinks trips to the rifle range with two elderly flatulents are a drag. Perhaps Jamie and Awasin can bring him around.