My four favorite books;
Lord of the rings
Misterious Island by Jules Verne
Robinson Crusoe
The original Conan series by Robert E Howard
2006-09-08 09:28:34 · 16 answers · asked by James A 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The book doesn't need to be new, just new to me.
2006-09-08 09:55:56 · update #1
With Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey & Maturin naval history series you can't go wrong my friend ! (20 books).
If you want to get an idea of what awaits you see the recent Peter Weir's film "Master & Commander: the Far Side of the World.
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2006-09-08 09:50:10 · answer #1 · answered by par1138 • FCD 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have you tried any of HG Wells books such as First Men on the Moon? Harry Potter, of course, which I thought hugely better than Lord of the Rings, for a more recent book. Then there's Gullivers Travels and Sinbad. Swiss family Robinson, Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are a few that come to mind which you might enjoy.
2006-09-08 09:43:00 · answer #2 · answered by pol 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mmm, the Bartimaeus Trilogy was going to be my first recommendation...
Try Sherlock Holmes. While I think it's best to read them in chronological order, start with a good collection of the stories or one of the novels--Hound of the Baskervilles, perhaps.
Stephen King's Dark Tower series is good--there is a romance that goes through a few of the books, but it's not a huge part of the plot. (The fourth book is pretty much solid backstory romance, and was my least favorite of the seven, but otherwise good solid adventure.)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein--wonderfully creepy with adventure going on at several different layers.
2006-09-08 10:16:27 · answer #3 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
REAL LIFE ADVENTURE STORY:
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Amazon.com
"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.
2006-09-08 10:38:50 · answer #4 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I third Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
Also, Clive Cussler has excellent action/adventure, and the only real love interest is when Dirk Pitt manages to seduce yet another woman, but it's very minimal. If you go with Clive Cussler, I suggest Atlantis Found.
2006-09-09 07:27:55 · answer #5 · answered by hisprincess 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of the Gary Paulson books like Woodsong.
Far North by Will Hobbs
How about The Alienist by Caleb Carr?
2006-09-08 14:32:06 · answer #6 · answered by February Rain 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try :
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, or
Arundel by Kenneth Roberts.
If you like Lord of the Rings you might enjoy
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks.
And since you're not afraid of reading books that have stood the test of time, how about
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.
2006-09-08 09:53:43 · answer #7 · answered by clip_fed 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since you don't like love interests in a book, forget LOTR, Mysterious Island because there are love interests in all of those books. However, if you just like adventure with minimal love interests, check out books by H. Rider Haggard, Jack duBrul, Matthew Reilly(can't go wrong,here), Alexander Dumas, etc.
2006-09-08 09:42:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
David Eddings Belgariad series (very minor love interest plots, won't distract you at all)
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Death Gate Cycle
2006-09-08 09:35:57 · answer #9 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I second the recommendation for Ender's Game. I love Orson Scott Card.
You may also be interested in reading HERE THERE BE DRAGONS when it is released on October 1. It is a fantasy/adventure story with lots of literary references including Tolkien and Verne...among others.
http://www.heretherebedragons.net/
2006-09-08 09:41:06 · answer #10 · answered by laney_po 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋