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Your Top Ten Books?
The Graphomaniac is Put on the Spot
© 2017 James LaFond
FEB/13/17
“Which of your many books do you consider signature show pieces, or LaFond must reads, I mean if someone had to read only the top few, which would you recommend? Do you have a personal Top 10?”
-Our Illustrious Guests
I guess I deserve that question after I’ve been a big enough dick to make it impossible for a man of my class to even own half my collection.
Dear Guest, I have picked 9 books off of my shelf and have yet to arrange them. I will now go on line and look at the four books which I have published but do not yet own, and make my determination as to the ranking of this ten.
I have six nonfiction and four fiction choices. My number 11 pick was Taboo You, my most popular nonfiction title that is about more than fighting.
10. White in the Savage Night: A Politically Incorrect Life in Words, 2016 [best writing form to date]
9. 40,000 Years from Home: A History of Human Aggression [most comprehensive examination of my violent life]
8. When You’re Food: Raw, A Fighter’s View of Predatory Aggression, The Forever Autumn Press Edition [best of my early Harm City Writing]
7. God’s Picture Maker [most satisfying Sunset Saga novel, the Dark-Eyed Girl Edition, cheaper and edited]
6. Poet: the Enlightened Fate of Akbar Qama [best urban fiction]
5. The Jericho Bone [an unmarketable mix of history, science-fiction, horror, Islam and deep characterization—but my best fiction job]
4. Reverent Chandler: The Saga of Fend [most readable and most violent fiction]
3. He—Gilgamesh: Into the Face of Time [an adaptation of our oldest surviving story]
2. Stillbirth of A Nation [most important history book]
1. Under the God of Things, [most in-depth examination of our condition I have managed thus far]
Thank you for pulling this out of me, Guest, and thank you for inspiring me to write Stillbirth of a Nation, for I believe it was you who sent me the link to Peter Williamson’s manuscript.
Books by James LaFond
Nakar
blog
My Informative Soul Brother
eBook
z-pill forever
eBook
on the overton railroad
eBook
taboo you
eBook
broken dance
eBook
your trojan whorse
eBook
night city
eBook
predation
eBook
masculine axis
eBook
advent america
eBook
under the god of things
eBook
america the brutal
eBook
orphan nation
eBook
the fighting edge
eBook
wife—
eBook
blue eyed daughter of zeus
eBook
into leviathan’s maw
eBook
the combat space
eBook
dark, distant futures
eBook
time & cosmos
eBook
triumph
eBook
cracker-boy
eBook
the greatest lie ever sold
eBook
the year the world took the z-pill
eBook
on combat
eBook
thriving in bad places
eBook
by the wine dark sea
eBook
the lesser angels of our nature
eBook
hate
eBook
beasts of aryas
eBook
barbarism versus civilization
eBook
song of the secret gardener
eBook
songs of aryas
eBook
within leviathan’s craw
eBook
sorcerer!
eBook
when you're food
eBook
son of a lesser god
eBook
fiction anthology one
eBook
logic of force
eBook
fanatic
eBook
sons of aryas
eBook
solo boxing
eBook
honor among men
eBook
uncle satan
eBook
all-power-fighting
eBook
logic of steel
eBook
ranger?
eBook
book of nightmares
eBook
fate
eBook
the first boxers
eBook
the greatest boxer
eBook
menthol rampage
eBook
the sunset saga complete
eBook
winter of a fighting life
eBook
let the world fend for itself
eBook
the gods of boxing
Grasspunk     Feb 13, 2017

Is "The Jericho Bone" related to "An Arabian Terror Tale (omnibus edition)"? Because I thought ATT was a great read.
James     Feb 14, 2017

The Jericho Bone is a second edition of An Arabian Terror Tale, edited by a professional, as opposed to 90% of my books which are unedited—just proofed by the same idiot that made the mistakes in the first place.
Mesc Franklin     Feb 13, 2017

Top Ten LaFond (for now)

1-When You're Food-The bridge between the Paladin days and The Graphomaniac era.

2-Revenant Chandler-Perfect length, unmarketable theme and Robert E Howard homage.

3-War Drums: 40 miles from the Big House. Yours truly featured prominently and the only accurate on the ground view of Baltimore late April 2015..the Dawn Of Dindustan!

4-Planet Buzzkill- The coolest apocalyptic sci fi/horror that will never be filmed.

5-Menthol Rampage-The ultimate anti-smoking statement.

6-Walking in Indian Country-Chilling real life encounters and the Sequel to War Drums, also an instructional. A perfect mix of everything.

7-The Jericho Bone-I second Jim on this.

8-A Well of Heroes/Dark Art of an Аrуаn Mystic-Both versions are the ultimate overviews of Howard analyzed in ways no one would dare.

9-StillBirth of A Nation/American in Chains-A major Thesis of LaFonds illustrating the truth of the slave matrix unique to America and now exported to the world.

10-The Punishing Art/Twerps, Goons and Meatshields/Thriving in Bad places

The instructional books, even I am learning something.

You got fiction, manuals and essays/reviews as well as sage philosophy.

I cheated listing 14 books, sue me!
Sean     Feb 13, 2017

My personal picks are (and not in any specific order)

1. Taboo you

2. Incubus of your sacred emasculation

3. Shorn of little sissy things

4. Reverant Chandler

5. The fighting edge

6. When you're food

7. Stillbirth of a nation

8. Of lions and men

9. Twerps, goons, and meat shields.

Making this list has made me realize I need to adventure into more Lafond fiction.....although that could be dangerous!
James     Feb 14, 2017

Thanks Sean,

My pro-Christian offerings are the Consultant and Organa, same lengths as Reverent Chandler.
Shep     Feb 13, 2017

I like Poet bigly, but Gods of Boxing is really first-class.

James—have you done or would you consider doing a straight take-off of one of the Conan stories in the present day? Say, Conan is an independent biker/pitfighter/mercenary, the wizards are some sort of drug-dealing mind-control cult, etc. etc. Same plot line and characterization as what ever story you're remaking, just an update into our current time of dysfunction.

If there's already something like this in your repertoire, I apologize for my ignorance.
James     Feb 14, 2017

Dude, this is a great idea!

I should do this some day.

Thanks
Shep     Feb 14, 2017

If and when—I hope you will make full use of the REH lexicon that you've been analyzing. It's as much poetry as prose.
James     Feb 15, 2017

Glad you like it, Shep.

It's experimental, even though some Robert E. Howard bibliophiles have probably already done it.

These entries will be made as the words are found in each story reviewed and will be included in each volume of A Well of Heroes.
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