Herman Wouk

All of them, I believe. I would not re-read Margerie Morningstar again on a bet, but some of the others rank amongst the best books I've read.

I'd have to see the titles again, but I remember liking him a great deal, some long time ago. Never read M. Morningstar.

My mother told me the story of The Winds of War when I was about 13 and I thought it was a real story until the miniseries came out. During my senior year in high school I read The Winds of War and War and Remembrance (hated that miniseries) and I used them for a term paper for my AP English lit class.

In college I read The Caine Mutany. I next tried Marjorie Morningstar about 2/3 of the way through and didn't like the plot when she slept with Noel. I then read all of is other books (from City Boy up to Inside Outside and then reread The Caine Mutiny before reading Marjorie Morningstar all the way through (and likewise wouldn't bother to read it again). I even managed to get an interlibrary loan copy of Slattery's Hurricane and the play Nature's Way. Next I read The Hope and The Glory which weren't up to Wouk's abilities. The last thing of his that I read is A Hole in Texas- short but funny.

The Winds of War and War and Remembrance remain my favorite with The Caine Mutany a close second. I also enjoyed City Boy and Don't Stop the Carnival- both hilarious.

I just saw the movie version of The Caine Mutany on AMC. Bogart made a decent Queeg, but the rest of the cast was much too old for their parts. Of course it was unusual to see one of the Ferer brothers in one of our side's uniforms.

Who'll Stop the Carnival. That was one of my favorite books by Wouk. (I think he wrote that)

What do you know, you watch Trailer movies.

I had the title of that book wrong. It is called Don't Stop the Carnival.

A most excellent read.

I've read Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Youngblood Hawke, and Marjory Morningstar.

I skipped the mini-series because I didn't think it would do the books justice. I should probably pick up The Caine Mutany

A good while back I heard that Wouk and Jimmy Buffet were going to turn Don't Stop the Carnival into a stage musical, but I never heard anything else about it.

Wouk had an unusually high amount of control over the The Winds of War miniseries- even to the point where he cold decide what commercials could be shown. Several of his previous books had been turned into movies and were butchered by Hollywood in the process. The Caine Mutiny movie wasn't too terribly bad apart from the casting and making Willie Keith a secondary character when the book was about him. The Marjorie Morningstar movie shouldn't have been made. I think Charlton Heston was in a movie version of Slattery's Hurricane, but I've never seen it.

I read Aurora Dawn about a year after the Jim Bakker scandal hit the news. I hate televangelists so that book really resonated with me. It could make a great movie.

Wouk published a novel in 2004, entitled "A Hole in Texas." It's a fun read. Short details are:

A physicist finds his peaceful life with a prestigious career at NASA, devoted wife, and new baby turned upside down by a Chinese scientific discovery, a study that could have been based on an old American scientific project, the Superconducting Super Collider, that raises serious questions about possible military implications, an old love affair, and national security.

Slattery's Hurricane? I guess I haven't seen all his works, after all. Thanks for the tip.

Don't Stop the Carnival was suggested to me as a very funny book. I loved it, and didn't think it were a bit funny. Buying a lease while thinking he were buying a property, and for some odd reason, just assuming that a hotel would also have a water supply sounds to much like something I might get into to be funny.

There were underlying currents of humor, roger. Not slapstick funny, but there WAS humor there.

I hadn't heard of Slattery's Hurricane either, roger. But I googled it and found this website.

The bit with the ants was highly slap-stick.

Think of Don't Stop the Carnival as being on an island governed by Murphy's Law.

Tried for Slattery's Hurricane at the library. Couldn't find it, but A Hole in Texas was there. Good book.

I had to get it through inter-library loan.