Best book you ever read.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Mudjack
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 05:06 PM

The Holy Bible, by God a proven best seller, Grapes of Wrath by Stienbeck. I need to read more but PC stuff and music limits that option.
Mudjack

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: dwditty
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 05:12 PM

Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer - Kenneth Patchen Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlien Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut - who gave me a copy of this book on the day I shipped out to Vietnam. I had it read before I landed and spent the next year thinking about time and again.

dw

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: BigDaddy
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 05:52 PM

My current ten titles to take with me to a deserted island would be:
The Hounds of the Morrigan (Pat O'Shea),
Told on the King's Highway (Eleanore Jewett),
The Education of Little Tree (Forrest Carter),
A Treasury of Great Poems (edited by Louis Untermeyer),
An Elegy For September (John Nichols),
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte),
The Curse Of The Wise Woman (Lord Dunsany),
Hunter's Horn (Harriet Arnow),
Fairies (Brian Froud & Alan Lee), and
A Christmas Carol ( Charles Dickens).

As with many of you, my list changes from time to time. Also, some favorites are "guilty pleasures," that is to say they're not necessarily the best examples of writing but I love them anyway.

I also have my "survival list" of albums I couldn't be without, but we'll do that another time perhaps.

J.

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Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: tradsteve
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 05:57 PM

I forgot "In Dubious Battle" Steinbeck

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: BigDaddy
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 06:09 PM

Post Scriptum: You all might want to take a look at editor/author/artist Terri Windling's websitfor some really good reading ideas. See her "Recommendations" at http://www.endicott-studio.com/

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Mbo
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 06:14 PM

Ha ha, I knew you'd pop up sooner or later, Ceit! Wanna know something? I haven't read "Leaf by Niggle" yet! Shameful, isn't it!

And SINSULL, that is a flat out lie about Doyle. Just pop over the the Arthur Conan Doyle Society mailing list (of which my sister is part of too) and they'll set you straight!

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: mousethief
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 06:28 PM

Leaf by Niggle is WONDERFUL. Literally and figuratively.

Alex
O..O
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Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: gillymor
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 06:35 PM

Thanks a lot y'all. My books to read list was long enough*g*.

Room With a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards' End by E.M. Forster.
Seasons Through the Net, The Bushwhacked Piano, Some Horses by Thomas McGuane.
Coyote Summer and The Morning River by W. Michael Gear.
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.
Great Expectations
The above mentioned The Glory of Their Times.
The Horses Mouth by Joyce Cary.
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd.
Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton.
The Honorary Consul, Travels With My Aunt and much of Graham Greene and on and on.

F

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: GUEST,John Galt
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 06:36 PM

Most of my favorites have been listed...except

Darkness at Noon - Koestler?
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
Tales of the South Pacific - Michner
Country Home - Ernie Pyle
Shogun

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Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 07:15 PM

On a less stimulating intellectual level,but fun reads nonetheless...

The White Spider by the same guy who wrote Seven Years in Tibet,tells the amazing and terrifying story of the first Eiger ascents.Trevanian's The Eiger Sanction was a good thriller that borrowed heavily from The White Spider.

Most of John Grisham's stuff,especially Testament.

Sarum and London by Edward Rutherfurd.A bit melodramatic,but based on solid historical research.

Most Ruth Rendell mysteries.I'm not ordinarily a mystery fan,but my wife turned me onto her,and I think she's one of the best at developing three-dimensional characters(Ruth,not my wife.Despite her best efforts,I remain one-dimensional).

And detective fiction? Sure.I love The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley.I'd describe Crumley as Hunter Thompson meets Mickey Spillane.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 07:18 PM

I don't think I could pick a best book -- many on my list have already been mentioned, some several times, but here are a couple to add to the pile:

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini -- historical novel that bears little or no resemblance to the movie with Stewart Granger (they took the title and the gimmick or "McGuffin," but little else). Sabatini has a thick Victorian style, which turns many people off, but his historical research is impeccable and he's one helluva story-teller. Errol Flynn made a career out of play (badly) Sabatini heroes. Whacking good adventure!

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell -- Hard to classify: mainstream/science fiction/religious/philsophical. Good story, but much more than that. It raises some uncomfortable questions -- definitely thought-provoking. She wrote a sequel, Children of God, which is almost as good, but you need to read The Sparrow first.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Morticia
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 07:30 PM

Max, I thought that The Cat who Walked Through Walls was a follow on from Time Enough for Love? ( I love all Heinlein novels) Micca, darling, I'll help you 'thin' your collection ( actually I've already made considerable advances towards that goal but perhaps he hasn't noticed) and speaking of the LFU....no-ones mentioned "My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell...another comfort read.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Susan from California
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 09:20 PM

OK, y'all have already mentioned many of my favorites,(esp Irving & Steinbeck) but nobody has mentioned Octavia E. Butler. Her trilogy that begins with "The Parable of the Sower" is not to be missed. Her books are classified as Science Fiction, but they are not overly Sci for those of you who are not really excited by Sci Fi.

For Kid Lit, I love the sadly out of print "A Tree for Peter" by Kate Seredy, "The Empty Barn" by De Angeli, and one I just previewed for my Jr High students, "Tangerine" by I'm not sure who.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 10:01 PM

Cold Mountain--Charles Frazier

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: richlmo
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 10:17 PM

I started this thread thinking " Lord Of The Rings " was my favorite and it still is ONE of my favorites, but "Lonesome Dove" is right up there. Maybe my favorite fictional character ever in "Gus McRae" Others that I keep re-reading, " Shogun" by James Clavell, The "Clan of the Cavebear" series is pretty good , too. Thanks for all the response. You have reminded me of lots of good ones.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: richlmo
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 10:19 PM

'Cold Mountain" was a beautiful book.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: GUEST,AB-Guest
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 10:29 PM

What a fun find for the evening. How can you decide and the BEST? A few favorites so far unmentioned. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte 1984, George Orwell Fried Green Tomatoes, Flagg The Bean Trees, Kingsolver and of course Stienbeck and Dickens are always a good read.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: thosp
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 10:38 PM

well being an avid reader (my mother told me i was born with a book in my hand)here's just a few of the best book i have ever read

1)lord of the rings-tolkein

2)lord of the flies-golding

catch 22-heller

3)tom sawyer&huck finn-twain

the Jeeves series-wodehouse

4)the histories-tacitus

5)arundel
5b)rabble in arms
5c)oliver wiswell-roberts

6)this fortress world-gunn

peace (Y) thosp

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Melani
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 11:09 PM

An almost impossible question. I've always really liked "The Grapes of Wrath" as a major classic. On a somewhat less intellectual level, I really enjoy the Flashman series and anything else by George McDonald Fraser.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 12:14 AM

Hooray! Someone else likes "The Hounds of the Morrigan!"

I'm a children's librarian, so a lot of my favorites (of the moment) are going to be in the kids or young adult's section, but believe me, they're worth looking at:

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Beauty; and Rose Daughter both by Robin McKinley
2041 (collection of shortstories) esp. "Beggarman": the collection is edited by Jane Yolen
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster
The Little Princess; and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman, I think
The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt(again, I think...)
Ella Enchanted by Levine
Skellig by David Almond
Going through the Gate by A...
Wolves of Willoughby Chase (and sequels) by Joan Aiken

Non fiction I've liked lately:
Old Man in a Baseball Cap
In the Shadow of the Moons
I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Year I Got Polio (by Peg Kehret)

Authors with too many books to list are Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, Arthur Conan Doyle, Terry Pratchett, Anne Perry, Rex Stout, Ellery Queen, C.S. Forester, Josephine Tey, Ellis Peters, Dorothy Sayers, David Weber, Elizabeth Moon, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling, Tolkein, C. S. Lewis, Natalie Babbitt, Cynthia Voigt, Diana Wynne Jones, and probably several others that I'll think of when I'm at work and can see the shelves.

Grin!

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 02:31 AM

Whew! First time in this thread. Lots of my favs mentioned, too, esp. Doyle; Sidhartha; and To Kill A Mockingbird. (Incidentally, one of my favourite cartoons, is a Mother Goose and Grimm, where the dog is sitting in an easy chair reading TKAM and says, at the end, "I thought it was an instruction manual!")

Marion Zimmer Bradley was correct for Mists of Avalon, also one of my favourites, as are her Darkover novels.

Big Daddy, I am glad you mentioned Told on the King's Highway and, A Treasury of Great Poems. I really enjoyed both.

Currently reading a fascinating and excellent biography (something I usually do not enjoy reading all that much)called "Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Collette" by Judith Thurman.

A few others:

Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
Razor's Edge - S. Maugham
White Witch - Elizabeth Goudge
Walking Drum - Louis L'Amour
1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion - Morgan Llywelyn
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Round the Bend - Nevil Shute
ANYTHING written by M.R. JAMES - Best ghost stories ever!!
Light in the Forest - Conrad Richter
Hnery V - Shakespeare
Arrows of the Queen & Heralds of the Queen series - Mercedes Lackey
Songkiller Saga - Elizabeth Scarborough

and LOTS more; kind of the same mind as Micca, although I have whittled my library down due to several cross-country moves.

LEEJ: GREAT IDEA! Let's do have a Mudcat book of the Month thread!

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 04:44 AM

Where to start.............
East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice & Men, To A God Unknown...........Steinbeck
Catch 22.... Joseph Heller
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest....Ken Kesey. Also a great movie but the book is so much better.
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch....Alexander Solzenytsen
Lord of the Rings...JRR Tolkein
Angelas Ashes...Frank McCourt Anything by Myles na gCopaillin (Flann O Brien)

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress...Heinlen
Lucifer's Hammer..........Larry Niven
The Wheel of Time Series...Robert Jordan
The Stand, The Shining, Needful Things, Misery, by Stephen King
Battlefield Earth...L.Ron Hubbard Anything by Terry Pratchett, but most especially the book he wrote with Neil Gainman, "Good Omens"
In the Balance, Tilting The Balance, Upsetting the Balance, etc....Harry Turtledove.

The Belgariad, & The Malloreon,....David Eddings The Many Coloured Land...Julian May.

NO, MUST STOP TYPING, GOT TO GO & READ SOMETHING...... Eddie

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 07:55 AM

Be careful when you whittle your own collections book lovers, because the grand high muckymucks of librarydom have decided that old books are baaaad. I get encouraged to "weed! weed! weed!" on a regular basis. And I'm going to get downgraded on my employee evaluations because I won't do it, too.

phooey.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: balladeer
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 08:54 AM

Some favorites: The Winnie the Pooh series by AA Milne; the tragedies of Wm.Shakespeare; complete works of E.A.Poe; Tolkien's Lord of the Rings; To Kill a Mockingbird, On the Road, The Shining, OED, F.J. Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads; Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Agatha Christie, while not the best author I ever read, is the one who put me to sleep at night and kept me company on trains over many years. Two books that altered the course of my life were Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind, which I read when I was ten, and Poems to Remember, an anthology that will be recalled by anyone who went to high school in Toronto in the fifties. That's where I discovered ballads. Seems Harper Lee is the most popular author here....

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Naemanson
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 09:26 AM

NO! STOP! END THIS THREAD NOW! I can't stand it anymore. Every post incldes books I have loved and books that I now realize I must read and AAAARRRRGGGGHHH!

must...end...now...

help.....

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 09:30 AM

Crazy Eddie! Thanks for reminding me of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series! Great books, although I have to confess, I could not get into the last one. My neice and her husband are so into them, they dressed as characters from them for Halloween, last year.

Rabbitrunning, I never get rid of the old ones!**BG** Just paperbacks and such. In fact, some of the best old ones I have came from library sales. Sadly so for library patrons, but at least they've come to a good home. I thought I'd died & gone to heaven when I went to a library book sale in Rhode Island. Everyone in the community had contributed to it and a huge gymnasium was filled with tables and rows of books, upon books. I was almost delirious!

kat

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: balladeer
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 09:40 AM

Note to self: read Lonesome Dove.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Callie
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 09:51 AM

The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
The Good Apprentice - Iris Murdoch
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Felicia's Journey - William Trevor
This Side of Brightness - Colum McCann
The House at World's End - Monica Dickens
Two Lives - William Trevor
The Bone People - Kerri Hulme
The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibin
The Well - Elizabeth Jolley
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters - Julian Barnes
Collections of Stories by Raymond Carver

Callie

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: sophocleese
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 10:00 AM

Wow I missed this thread earlier in the week. Paul Scott, Jewel in the Crown quartet and especially Staying On.
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, tangible language that you rest on and feel your way around.
Susan Cooper, Dark is Rising quintet for children.
Alan Garner, Elidor and others, excellent children's teens fantasy.
Patricia McKillip, I like all of her titles.
Tanya Huff, light reading again but very enjoyable.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Rosebrook
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 11:59 AM

Definately my all-time most favorite book is The Little Prince by Antoine Antoine De Saint-Exupery. Was introduced to that book in junior high French class. Thanks Monsieur Sherman!! It has made a lifelong impact.

Also: Dreaming the Dark - Starhawk

Dykes to Watch Out For - Alison Bechdel (hysterical series!)

Dance of Anger - Harriet Goldhor Lerner

One Hundred Poems From the Japanese - Kenneth Rexroth

Rose

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Metchosin
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 12:14 PM

Maybe I missed it, buried in ths long thread somewhere, again not necessarily great literature, but just books that had a profound personal impact, Rachael Carson's Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 02:24 PM

Also:

Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
He, She, it - Marge Piercy
City of Darkness; City of Light - also by Piercy

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: GUEST,Ceitagh
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 08:32 PM

yup meebs, I'm still alive. can't keep me away from the 'cat for long. :-), specially not if good books are being discuused. What's really interesting is seeing which people have similar tastes to yours (so far sinsull and mousethief have made an impression as having *great* literary tastes...iow, they like a lot of the books i like). Btw, you *must* read leaf by niggle! It's absolutely beautiful.

I see a lot fo fantasy and sci fi readers out there, just thot i'd drop a vote for anything by patricia mckillip (her descriptions are so gorgeous and vivid!), Robin McKinley, and lois mcmaster bujold (wonderful characters). Not really 'literature', but great reading.

Ceit

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 08:51 PM

Add "The Shipping News" to your lists. Magical!

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: richlmo
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 10:02 PM

RE: the "Wheel of Time " series ,by Robert Jordan I loved the first 3 or 4, but the last umpteen have been pretty slow. No action until the last 2 chapters. I thought I was the only one who couldn't get into Michner.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 10:14 PM

Robert Jordan is the devil. No offence, richlmo. I've got a grudge against him for those damned 'Conan' 'books' he 'wrote.' ;)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 10:32 PM

Tough one to pick the best...

In autobiographies:

And A Voice To Sing With - Joan Baez

Willie - Willie Nelson

I, Tina - Tina Turner & Kurt Loder(?)

The Ragman's Son - Kirk Douglas

In adult fantasy:

Lord of the Rings

Watership Down

The Hobbit

The Water of the Wondrous Isles (and William Morris' other books on similar themes)

Tomoe Gozen
The Golden Naginata
The Thousand Shrine Warrior
All by Jessica Amanda Salmonson...these are utterly stunning and beautiful tales about a female Samurai warrior in a fictional land called Naipon, which greatly resembles feudal Japan. You will never be all that impressed with male samurai again after reading about Tomoe Gozen. Absolutely the BEST!!!

In religion and spiritual philosophy:

the Bible

the Buddist scriptures

the writings of Lao-Tse (Taoism)

The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ - by Levi

Conversations With God (vol. 1,2, & 3)
Friendship With God
Those are by Neale Donald Walsh (and they are superb)

A Return To Love - Marianne Williamson
The Healing of America - Marianne Williamson

The Tao of Pooh
The Teh of Piglet
Those two are a charming explanation of Taoism in practice, and are absolutely right on.

The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity - wonderfull book.

Ageless Body, Timeless Mind - Deepak Chopra

Health:

Diet For A New American

Sugar Blues - James Dufty

Roger's Recovery From Aids

Confessions Of A Kamikaze Cowboy - Dirk Benedict

Native American subjects:

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

Seven Arrows - Hyemeyohsts Storm

Childrens books:

Winnie the Pooh

The House at Pooh Corner

The Wind In The Willows

World War II non-fiction:

Samurai - Saburo Sakai, Martin Caidin & Fred Saito

Songbooks:

The Buffy Sainte-Marie Songbook (songs, articles, photos, & drawings by and about Buffy)

EVERY ONE OF THE ABOVE IS ABSOLUTELY GREAT.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: thosp
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 10:36 PM

territorial imperative-Ardsley

on aggresion-lorenz

foundation series-asimov

i robot series-asimov

fairoaks-yerby

peace (Y) thosp

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Caleb
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 11:21 PM

Newcomer; been checking y'all out for a long time, didn't know when to plunge in. Bookishness is a good reason.

Mostly modern stuff, short term memory loss and all:

Cold Mountain - C. Frazier
Dr. Zhivago - Pasternak (sp)
Far Tortuga - P. Mathiessen ("It de modern time, mon.")
The Glory and the Dream - W. Manchester
Beyond the Bedroom Wall - L. Woiwode
Daniel Martin - J. Fowles
In Our Time - E. Hemingway
October Light - John Gardner
Anything by Patrick O'Brian (Dr. Maturin!)
On the Road - J. Kerouac
Dubliners - J. Joyce
And a probably out-of-print Irish trilogy I read when I was a teenager by Walter Maclen (sp?) that that Orangeman ranter oughta read.

Words are what make us. String 'em together and make it count.

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Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 11:36 PM

Welcome, Caleb:)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Midchuck
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 12:11 AM

My list would be too damn long, and mostly too escapist.

For those with an interest in sci-fi and fantasy, though, I would offer a too-well-kept secret.

Usual disclaimers.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Jimmy C
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 12:24 AM

Some of my personal favourites have been posted such as The Bible, Moby Dick and To Kill a Mocking Bird.

I would add " A Tale of Two Cities", The Scarlet Pimpernel, "Famine" by Liam O'Flaherty and "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 01:08 AM

Can't believe I forgot to recommend these:

Waiting for the Galactic Bus & the sequel to it, The Snake Oil Wars, both by Parke Godwin.

Out of print, but libraries and secondhand places usually have them. I liked them much better than Hitchhiker's Guide. Can't say enough good about them.

Also, I Send A Voice by Evelyn Eaton

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From:
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 01:39 AM

"On Liberty" By John Stuart Mill

"Victory" by Joseph Conrad

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: GUEST,Kryptonium
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 02:48 AM

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy hehe :-)

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: GUEST,Kryptonium
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 02:55 AM

My douglas Adams i beleive

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: P05139
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 07:48 AM

I loved the following:-

Any of the NIGHT WORLD series by L.J. Smith
Watership Down By Richard Adams
Any of the DRINA series by Jean Estoril
Any of the CHALET SCHOOL series by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Any of the TREBIZON series by Anne Digby
Crystal by Virginia Andrews
Melody by the above authoress
Any of the HORRIBLE HISTORIES series by Terry Deary
Talking In Whispers by James Watson
Any of the DISCWORLD series by Terry Pratchett
Nobody's Horse (sorry, I can't remeber the author, Joanne somebody I think)

There are many, many more as well. Honourable mentions go to Terrance Dicks for Death to the Daleks and Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (Grant Naylor) for the RED DWARF series.

This is sounding like an awards ceremony!

Byee!

Firecat

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Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Naemanson
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 08:49 AM

Oh Kat, how could I have left out Parke Godwin! Have any of you read his Robin Hood books? I think he's the one who wrote the legend from the perspective of the Sheriff Of Nottingham. Very good.

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Stewie
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 09:33 AM

'The Ginger Man' - Donlevy
'A Distant Mirror' - Barbara Tuchman

Subject: RE: Best book you ever read.
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 17 Sep 00 - 12:49 PM

I always wondered why so many people at sci-fi/fantasy conventions looked like folk singers. Hmmm... ;)

---Lepus Rex