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warriorfunbooks - Posted 03/08/2008 11:16 AM

Solo Kill by S. Kye Boultis one of my favorite books and I try to re- read it at least once a year. It is a science fantasy about a planet with two suns, a yellow and a red giant and several intelligent forms of life. One of them, the Drak, which has wings and beaks like a bird , hunts and eats all the other forms of life. The March people, tall with retractable claws, the river people , small and water loving and the Valley people small with tails. According to the Ancient Compact the March people fight the Drak to protect the others. The others supply the food, and machines, crops from the Valley people and fish and weapons from the River people who are the artisans and engineers. The River people supply bi-wing planes and a new weapon- compressed air dart throwers.
The story is about the Baron Leon Amarson of the March people and his fight to keep the Drak of off His people and the others.
Then one of the new weapons the river people give him works too good and there are no more Drak in the skies. Until they go around a previously unexplored mountain range and find a great plain stretching out under the two suns, and Draks and mysterious long winged fliers.

David - Posted 01/09/2008 05:09 PM

I also finished "Lion in the White House". I agree with Big Pun it was an easy read with lots of interesting facts. Any man that goes against the grain for the good of the common person is a worthy man. We could use Teddy today.

BigPun1946 - Posted 01/02/2008 06:20 PM

I just finished "Lion in the White House," a book about Theodore Roosevelt.
Easy read, and full of interesting stuff. A lot of excerpts from his writings. He was an excellent writer. I've ordered "The Winning of the West, volume 1," part of a 4 volume series he wrote.

P.S. I finished the 1st of the 5 Hitchhiker books. Fun reading.

warriorfunbooks - Posted 12/09/2007 02:24 PM

Yeah, the Hichikers guide is fun, be sure and read all 5 books in the trilogy.
Have any of you read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? I thought I had read them all then I find a whole new triolgly called the"last Chronicles of Thomas Coventant. It has been ineresting.

BigPun1946 - Posted 12/09/2007 01:08 PM

I've finally started reading "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." It's histerical!