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Rosie Gamgee · 12-22-2004, 01:26 PM

Rocket Boys
The Coalwood Way
Sky of Stone

All by Homer H. Hickah Jr. Inspiring and entertaining.

AL.D · 12-22-2004, 09:01 PM

I enjoy novels like 'Wuthering Heights', 'Jane Eyre' and 'Jude the Obscure', but I also find them...well...pretty funny. All that pent-up anger, broiling emotion, sexual repression, and mad women in attics. Surely a spoof was on the cards. Then I found 'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons, and I realised that I was not alone.

I recommend you read it after a good dose of Victorianna, and you'll laugh yourself silly. It is the antidote to all that Bronte madness and Hardy gloom.

'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons.

Minielin · 01-02-2005, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by AL.D

I enjoy novels like 'Wuthering Heights', 'Jane Eyre' and 'Jude the Obscure', but I also find them...well...pretty funny. All that pent-up anger, broiling emotion, sexual repression, and mad women in attics.

Have you read Wide Sargasso Sea? I suppose I can't really talk, since I haven't read it myself, but considering what you're saying I guess you might find it interesting...

The Palantir · 03-08-2005, 02:44 AM

The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Great public domain book.

**Nurvingiel** · 03-08-2005, 10:35 AM

What a great thread! I really want to read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, thanks guys.

I recommend any book by Chris Crutcher (Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is one), and The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver.

Chris Crutcher writes very serious books for older teens, but adults can definitely enjoy them too. The Been Trees I'd especially recommend for older teens or adults.

Syle · 04-19-2005, 06:00 PM

I recommend anything by Neil Gaiman. I fell in complete love with American Gods, even though everyone I talk to about it (Except for most people my age, 14, because they can't follow the plotline, and thus, they can't exactly go in depth about the book. Idiots.) insists that the characters aren't believable. Feh to them.

For light and fast reading, I recommend Michael Crichton. Sphere is always fun. I've always liked The Terminal Man and Airframe; Airframe mainly because I am fascinated with aerodynamics, flying, planes, ect. ::Geeky grin:: Another one of Crichton's books that I enjoyed: Prey. The actual plotline I hated, but I found the concept of the book and the involvement of nanotechnology intriguing.

Yes, I'm going to have to read Jane Eyre for Honor's English over the summer. Joy over all joys.

Rosie Gamgee · 04-20-2005, 10:08 AM

I read Wuthering Heights recently, having promised a friend that I would read a Bronte book, and I saw a movie version of Jane Eyre. I don't know that I'd recommend them to anyone. Wuthering Heights was less than entertaining, really (although some of Heathcliffs outbursts were quite captivating, their sappiness aside). Jane Eyre... I guess I'd have to read the book, but I doubt I will. That crazy woman/wife/bump-in-the-night freaked me out.

I read tons of books (though not as much as I used to- where does time go?), but I can't think of any to recommend right now.

inked · 04-21-2005, 10:30 AM

Paradisio for the umpteenth time and it's better than ever!

As an aside, I find that good literature in its depth and allusional interconnectedness MUST be a foretaste of the blessed in eternity. Not a state of toxic dullness and vapidity, but an unending enjoyment of the depths and riches and personality of creature and Creator!

Lotesse · 05-21-2005, 03:08 PM

The Art of Dramatic Writing, by Lajos Egri.
I'm reading it right now; it's a modern classic and a highly reccommended read for all writers, not just scriptwriters. He interweaves beautiful philosophical ideas into what he puts forth, and even if you're not writing anything, this book is an enjoyable page-turner.

sun-star · 05-21-2005, 03:11 PM

I recommend Beowulf. Anyone who likes Tolkien should read it.

Falagar · 05-21-2005, 04:00 PM

Anything and everything by Umberto Eco, but especially Foucault's Pendulum! Love that book.

Lotesse · 05-21-2005, 04:06 PM

Falagar, what else by Umberto Eco can you reccommend?

Falagar · 05-21-2005, 05:08 PM

I've only read Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose (which has been made a movie with Sean Connery) and half of Baudolino, but these are his most important novels. Going to start The Island of the Day Before as soon as I can get my hands on it. He's also written a lot of essays and books on philosofical, semiotic and historical topics (his latest book is on writing, IIRC), mostly in Italian.

All of those I've read are brilliant (especially Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose, and especially especially Foucault's Pendulum

), and I'll vouch for the rest as well. Gut-feeling.

He's not the easiest author, pretty hard to get into actually. His books are filled with symbols and double meanings, and obscure historical facts.

Lotesse · 05-21-2005, 05:38 PM

Symbols, double meanings, obscure historical facts, mmmmm... sounds like my kind of book. I think I had a copy of The Name of the Rose once a really long time ago, but I don't think I read it, now I'll definitely have to check it out again.

Falagar · 05-21-2005, 05:59 PM

Yeah, do that!

The Name of the Rose starts out slow, but gets a lot more interesting after a while.

Jabberwock · 05-21-2005, 08:34 PM

The only Eco fiction I could read all the way through was Island of the Day Before. I've tried all of it though and fallen short of the end in each case. What I have been able to read, and reread, and enjoy immensely, are Eco's nonfiction books, like Serendipity, How to Travel With A Salmon, and Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. All are amazing books and highly recommended.

Lotesse · 05-21-2005, 08:46 PM

What great titles! Based on the titles alone, I'd check out those Eco books...

Falagar · 05-21-2005, 09:07 PM

Another good one is Kant and the Platypus. Got to read those one day.

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The only Eco fiction I could read all the way through was Island of the Day Before. I've tried all of it though and fallen short of the end in each case. What I have been able to read, and reread, and enjoy immensely, are Eco's nonfiction books, like Serendipity, How to Travel With A Salmon, and Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. All are amazing books and highly recommended.
Yesterday 09:59 PM

Which ones did you try? Both The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum are very hard to get into (I think Eco once said something about having made the beginning of NR extra hard, to make the reader pay penance

), while Baudolino sort of drags on.

rohirrim TR · 08-07-2005, 01:06 AM

any of the patrick O'brian books preferably the aubrey/maturin series

12-22-2004, 01:26 PM	#21
Rosie Gamgee The Lovely Hobbit-Lass Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bounded in a nut-shell Posts: 1,593	Rocket Boys The Coalwood Way Sky of Stone All by Homer H. Hickah Jr. Inspiring and entertaining. __________________ It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year!

04-19-2005, 06:00 PM	#26
Syle Sapling Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Tennessee Posts: 6	I recommend anything by Neil Gaiman. I fell in complete love with American Gods, even though everyone I talk to about it (Except for most people my age, 14, because they can't follow the plotline, and thus, they can't exactly go in depth about the book. Idiots.) insists that the characters aren't believable. Feh to them. For light and fast reading, I recommend Michael Crichton. Sphere is always fun. I've always liked The Terminal Man and Airframe; Airframe mainly because I am fascinated with aerodynamics, flying, planes, ect. ::Geeky grin:: Another one of Crichton's books that I enjoyed: Prey. The actual plotline I hated, but I found the concept of the book and the involvement of nanotechnology intriguing. Yes, I'm going to have to read Jane Eyre for Honor's English over the summer. Joy over all joys. __________________ Nothing is certain, except everything you know can change, Worship the sun, but now can you fall for the rain? Jamie Cullum, "London Skies"

04-20-2005, 10:08 AM	#27
Rosie Gamgee The Lovely Hobbit-Lass Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bounded in a nut-shell Posts: 1,593	I read Wuthering Heights recently, having promised a friend that I would read a Bronte book, and I saw a movie version of Jane Eyre. I don't know that I'd recommend them to anyone. Wuthering Heights was less than entertaining, really (although some of Heathcliffs outbursts were quite captivating, their sappiness aside). Jane Eyre... I guess I'd have to read the book, but I doubt I will. That crazy woman/wife/bump-in-the-night freaked me out. I read tons of books (though not as much as I used to- where does time go?), but I can't think of any to recommend right now. __________________ It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year!

04-21-2005, 10:30 AM	#28
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Paradisio for the umpteenth time and it's better than ever! As an aside, I find that good literature in its depth and allusional interconnectedness MUST be a foretaste of the blessed in eternity. Not a state of toxic dullness and vapidity, but an unending enjoyment of the depths and riches and personality of creature and Creator! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

05-21-2005, 03:08 PM	#29
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	The Art of Dramatic Writing, by Lajos Egri. I'm reading it right now; it's a modern classic and a highly reccommended read for all writers, not just scriptwriters. He interweaves beautiful philosophical ideas into what he puts forth, and even if you're not writing anything, this book is an enjoyable page-turner. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12-22-2004, 09:01 PM	#22
AL.D Sapling Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: London Posts: 13	I enjoy novels like 'Wuthering Heights', 'Jane Eyre' and 'Jude the Obscure', but I also find them...well...pretty funny. All that pent-up anger, broiling emotion, sexual repression, and mad women in attics. Surely a spoof was on the cards. Then I found 'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons, and I realised that I was not alone. I recommend you read it after a good dose of Victorianna, and you'll laugh yourself silly. It is the antidote to all that Bronte madness and Hardy gloom. 'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons.

03-08-2005, 02:44 AM	#24
The Palantir Hobbit Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: the hills of Tennessee Posts: 15	The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Great public domain book.

05-21-2005, 03:11 PM	#30
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I recommend Beowulf. Anyone who likes Tolkien should read it. __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

05-21-2005, 04:00 PM	#31
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Anything and everything by Umberto Eco, but especially Foucault's Pendulum! Love that book. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

05-21-2005, 04:06 PM	#32
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Falagar, what else by Umberto Eco can you reccommend? __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

05-21-2005, 05:08 PM	#33
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	I've only read Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose (which has been made a movie with Sean Connery) and half of Baudolino, but these are his most important novels. Going to start The Island of the Day Before as soon as I can get my hands on it. He's also written a lot of essays and books on philosofical, semiotic and historical topics (his latest book is on writing, IIRC), mostly in Italian. All of those I've read are brilliant (especially Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose, and especially especially Foucault's Pendulum ), and I'll vouch for the rest as well. Gut-feeling. He's not the easiest author, pretty hard to get into actually. His books are filled with symbols and double meanings, and obscure historical facts. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle. Last edited by Falagar : 05-21-2005 at 05:11 PM.

05-21-2005, 05:38 PM	#34
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Symbols, double meanings, obscure historical facts, mmmmm... sounds like my kind of book. I think I had a copy of The Name of the Rose once a really long time ago, but I don't think I read it, now I'll definitely have to check it out again. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

05-21-2005, 05:59 PM	#35
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Yeah, do that! The Name of the Rose starts out slow, but gets a lot more interesting after a while. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

05-21-2005, 08:34 PM	#36
Jabberwock Enting Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Canadian temporarily in USA. Posts: 55	... The only Eco fiction I could read all the way through was Island of the Day Before. I've tried all of it though and fallen short of the end in each case. What I have been able to read, and reread, and enjoy immensely, are Eco's nonfiction books, like Serendipity, How to Travel With A Salmon, and Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. All are amazing books and highly recommended.

05-21-2005, 08:46 PM	#37
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	What great titles! Based on the titles alone, I'd check out those Eco books... __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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