What novels would you recommend?

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  TonusOH

  If you like some of King's work, his short story collections are enjoyable. More hits than misses, and if you don't like a story you can move on to the next one. Clive Barker's Books of Blood is also a good set of short stories. A very different (and much more polished, IMO) writing style than King's, but lots of intriguing ideas.

  But short stories are not everyone's cup of tea, and King has often remarked that they're not nearly as popular as his novels. I tend to prefer short stories, so I have enjoyed his collections. Jerusalem's Lot, from the Night Shift collection, is one of my favorites. More Lovecraft than vampires, though.
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  Beth Sarim

  Peter Straub, Dan Brown...Tom Clancy,,,Stephen King,,,,Stuart Woods,,,,lol just to name a few.. .where do you start? So many good authors
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  LoveUniHateExams

  @TonusOH

  What is Jerusalem's Lot about? Is it set in the same universe as Salem's Lot?

  As you probably know, the full name for the fictional town is Jerusalem's Lot, Jerusalem being the name of a vicious pig that escaped and lived wild.
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  TD

  I've always found it amusing that Randall Flag from The Stand carried Watchtowers, but that's just me
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  enoughisenough

  Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea/ Marcus Rediker --a quote from page 258 par. 1 Almost all pirates has labored as merchant seamen, Royal Navy sailors, or privateersmen. The vast majority came from captured merchantmen as volunteers, for reason suggested by Dr. Samuel Johnson's observation that, " No man will become a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself in Jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.... A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

  A General History of the Pyrates/ Daniel Dafoe. The book I have was a reprint-with notes...original from 1724

  An interesting thing I learn about Pirates from reading the books-a lot of men didn't set out to be pirates. They may have been pressed ganged onto ships. If the ships they were sailing/ working on was attacked and overcome by pirates, in order to keep from being killed they had to throw their lot in with the pirates that had overcome the vessel they were sailing on.

  The Fountainhead/ Ayn Rand. or watch the movie...Gary Cooper gives an impressive defense before a jury as to personal integrity in the movie.
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  cofty

  Ben Macintyre's books on espionage and war stories are non-fiction but read like a ripping yarn.
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  Beth Sarim

  Couple more really good authors Nelson DeMille and James Patterson. The authors Ive mentioned earlier on this thtread & now are NOT authors the Borg would endorse.
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  littlerockguy

  Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell.

  I have read a lot of Taylor Caldwell books but Captains and the Kings is one of my favorites. She never wrote a bad book. She was very prolific back in the day but today most everybody under 50 has never heard of her. Check her out if you like historical novels.

  LRG
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  Beth Sarim

  The Origin by Dan Brown. And Inferno by Dan Brown.
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  TonusOH

  LUHE: What is Jerusalem's Lot about? Is it set in the same universe as Salem's Lot?

  I think it is, though only the names give any indication that it might be related. There are no vampires, but it has more of an 'old gods' vibe to it. Perhaps it is his attempt to show that the site itself is evil, or attractive to evil.

  The story is depicted through the letters and journal entries of a man who moves into a large estate he has inherited. An estate with a strange and terrible past that is linked to a nearby deserted town that the locals refer to as Jerusalem's Lot.

  There is another short story (I don't recall the name or what collection it's in, but I can find out) that is set in Salem's Lot after the events of the novel. In that one, a man stumbles into a local tavern after his car gets stuck in a snow drift on a cold winter night, and the locals must help him find his wife and child, who were left in the car when the man went for help. What they find is... predictable. But it's also a decent story.