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What was your favorite book of the 1970 era?

Mine was Night Shift by Steven King.

Night Shift is the first collection of short stories by Stephen King,[1] first published in 1978. In 1980, Night Shift received the Balrog Award for Best Collection, and in 1979 it was nominated as best collection for the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award.[2] Many of King's most famous short stories were included in this collection.

Posted - August 22, 2017
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  • 7126
    Don't know if I have a favorite but I really liked The Thorn Birds (1977) by Colleen McCullough. And the mini-series with Richard Chamberlain had me positively riveted.   


      August 22, 2017 7:51 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    My mom was all about the Thornbirds.  I missed most of it, sorry to say.  I was 27 and very much into going out and drinking so TV was not a big deal back then.
      August 22, 2017 8:11 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    I still have my copy; I've read it a few time......just love it!   (,,,and it's a big ole thing like 700 pages I think)
      August 23, 2017 2:26 AM MDT
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  • 23577
    No surprise -- it was John Russo's novelization of the original 1968 "Night of the Living Dead" movie.

    Russo helped write the screenplay for the movie.
    I read the novel (published first in 1974) a couple of years before seeing the movie for the first time.
    The novel is very good (especially since it's based upon a movie screenplay; Russo adapts it all very well in to a novel, worthy to stand on its own.) 

    (By the way, I love "Night Shift", too!)

    :)






      August 22, 2017 8:38 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    George Romero, the producer of the movie, died recently.
      August 22, 2017 9:24 PM MDT
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  • 23577
    Yeah, I had heard about his death, too, bhwilson. Romero directed the movie, too. (I read a book on the behind-the-scenes details for the making of the movie -- it's really interesting. I've even traveled to where the movie was filmed twice. Ha!)
    Thanks for adding to my answer, bhwilson.
    :)
    Oh, and this specific book cover I posted is the same cover on my book/s I have. This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at August 23, 2017 7:57 AM MDT
      August 23, 2017 7:53 AM MDT
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  • Two of my favorite novels from the '70s include If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino and The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch. 

    Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner and A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick are also good ones :)
      August 22, 2017 9:01 PM MDT
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  • 23577
    I haven't heard of these titles. Darn - -  a lot seems to get by me.
      August 23, 2017 7:56 AM MDT
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  • 17596
    There were many many great ones published in the 70s; I didn''t read them all.  Many were made into movies.  The Thornbirds, Colleen McCullough, is one of my all-time favorite novels.   Some of the other greats works of that decade:

    Sophie's Choice, Williams Styron

    Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein (poetry)

    Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach

    The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison  (One of many in the 70s that folks wanted banned)

    The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White ( wonderful children's book)

     
      August 23, 2017 2:23 AM MDT
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  • 23577
    I don't think I knew "Sophie's Choice" was a book first. I can be out of the loop often.
    :)
      August 23, 2017 7:55 AM MDT
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  • That was before my time. It is difficult to recall the dates of all books I like. One at hand is the 1975 novel "The Dreadful Lemon Sky" by John D. McDonald. It is one of the series about Travis McGee who is a sort of private investigator. All of the novels in the series have colors in their titles from "The Deep Blue Goodbye" to "The Lonely Silver Rain". 
      August 26, 2017 7:34 AM MDT
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