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Thread #25418 Message #297827
Posted By: hesperis
15-Sep-00 - 12:38 AM
Thread Name: Best book you ever read.
Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
#1 ever: Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
anything at all ever written by Tolkien
'A Horseman Riding By' which is a trilogy by R.F. Delderfield. I have composed a brass quintet suite based on this. He's written some other good stuff, but I've forgotten the titles.
any discworld book at all by Terry Pratchett
That book by Josephine Tey about Richard the 3rd of England
A Thousand Words For Stranger, and the sequel; and Beholder's Eye, and the sequel; by Julie E. Czerneda. She is a local science fiction writer.
I tend to have favorite authors rather than favorite books.
non-fiction #1: Discipline That Works, by Dr. Thomas Gordon
#2 Feeling Good, by Dr. David Burns
the only Harlequin romance novel that has a permanent place on my favorite shelf is 'Not By Appointment', by Essie Summers
Shadow Magic, by Patricia C. Wrede. Fairly light writing, but some deep concepts can be found in it. Sci-fantasy.
~*sirepseh*~