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Hippie_forever |
Posted - March 24 2005 : 6:53:57 PM Like to see what kind of books people here likes. I am an avid reader and some of my favourite books are:
Dharma Bums On the Road A Light in the Forest Black Elk Speaks Catcher in the Rye To Kill a Mockingbird First Confession A Girl With a Pearl Earring Ladya nd the Unicorn The Outsiders Pride and Predujice A Midsummer's Night Dream Gone with the Wind Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail Mists of Avalon |
13 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
Kan-Tuck-EE |
Posted - April 17 2010 : 12:59:54 PM quote: Originally posted by Wilderness Woman
I think we have done this before, but here goes again...
Sara Donati's "Into The Wilderness" series (hence my Mohicanland name!) Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series Most books by Jane Austen, but especially Pride & Prejudice Jane Eyre All books by Dame Mary Stewart, but especially her Merlin trilogy All books by Walter D. Edmonds, but especially "Drums Along the Mohawk" Kenneth Roberts' books ...and many others that do not come to mind right now.
Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Series for sure! |
Monadnock Guide |
Posted - February 27 2010 : 6:28:23 PM There is some really great "stuff" there Rich. I get probably 90%+ of any books I read these days from them. Nothing like seeing TRUE historic events written by the people who experienced it themselves. I've become interested in the trappers/mountain men era, - and what a life they lived. Not for the weak of heart, - but fascinating. ... I would highly recommend giving them or Amazon perhaps a try. |
richfed |
Posted - February 27 2010 : 08:41:07 AM Cool link, MG! |
Monadnock Guide |
Posted - February 26 2010 : 07:16:28 AM www.narrativepress.com |
Lady Mohican |
Posted - February 25 2010 : 10:24:11 PM Push - Sapphire Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden The Lover - Marguerite Duras Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi The Russian Concubine - Kate Furnivall Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Angels & Demons - Dan Brown The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown Candy - Mian Mian Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
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Ellie |
Posted - March 30 2005 : 08:30:05 AM I also adore the Wilderness series by Sara Donati, other favourites are:
Patricia Cornwell - Scarpetta series, fantastic books and I just love the forensic detail.
Nicholas Evans - The Horse Whisperer and The Loop I could read over and over again.
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility Jewel - Chasing Down the Dawn
I have loads of books on Elvis, Audrey Hepburn, Gene Kelly and books on horses and Canada and Alaska that I love to look through and lose myself in.
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Wilderness Woman |
Posted - March 30 2005 : 08:17:59 AM I think we have done this before, but here goes again...
Sara Donati's "Into The Wilderness" series (hence my Mohicanland name!) Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series Most books by Jane Austen, but especially Pride & Prejudice Jane Eyre All books by Dame Mary Stewart, but especially her Merlin trilogy All books by Walter D. Edmonds, but especially "Drums Along the Mohawk" Kenneth Roberts' books ...and many others that do not come to mind right now.
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blueotter |
Posted - March 29 2005 : 11:04:58 PM I have read so many things over the years, so I'll list my most recent favorites:
•Cold Mountain -- my all-time favorite. •Anything by Jane Hamilton •Anything by Sharyn McCrumb: -The Ballad of Frankie Silver -The Rosewood Casket -Songcatcher -Ghostriders -and many others I haven't read yet, but will! She writes about actual people in the Appalaichian mountains in the area where NC and TN meet... a place where he own ancestors settled and near where she lives today. •Anything by Donna Tartt •Anything by Depak Chopra, especially The Book of Secrets •The Story of Opal Whitley
Favorites from the past: •All Tolkein •Dandelion Wine •Stranger in a Strange Land
and many others! Rose |
SgtMunro |
Posted - March 29 2005 : 7:32:15 PM I agree with 'CT', and I am also partial to Eckert's 'Winning of America' Series. Among the others I enjoy, and find myself going back to often:
The Papers of Henry Bouquet (Volumes 1-6) The Correspondence of William Pitt (Volumes 1&2) The Writtings of General John Forbes The Amherst Papers, 1756-1763: The Southern Sector Military Affairs in North America 1748-1765 (The Duke of Cumberland's Papers) The Critical Period 1763-1765 (Volume 1 of the 'British Series' by Alvord & Carter) The New Regime 1765-1767 (Volume 2 of the 'British Series' by Alvord & Carter) England in the Seven Years War (Volumes 1&2) Crucible of War (Fred Anderson's masterpiece) Braddock of the Monongahela Braddock Road Chronicles, 1755 Montcalm and Wolfe The Conspiracy of Pontiac Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania (Volumes 1&2) Indian Wars of Pennsylvania Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania The Black Watch: The Record of an Historic Regiment The British Army of the Eighteenth Century Redcoats (Brumwell's updated answer to 'Fit For Service') Clans, Septs & Regiments of the Scottish Highlands
AND... Most importantly, 'The MacWilliams Chronicles' (Volumes 1-4)
Your Most Humble Servant,
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CT•Ranger |
Posted - March 29 2005 : 6:39:38 PM I don't read much fiction any more, just about everything I read is either history or theology. But some of my old favorites are Alan Eckert's frontier historical fiction series, Howard Fast's revolutionary war novels, and Kenneth Roberts' "Northwest Passage," and "Arundel." |
Christina |
Posted - March 29 2005 : 5:45:05 PM Just a few of many: Anne Rice's "Vampire" series "Lost Souls" and anything else by Poppy Z. Brite Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Gone with the Wind Catcher in the Rye A Scots Quair (a compilation of a three-part novel about a Scotswoman and her son) On the Road Cold Mountain The Ring Trilogy and The Hobbit -- Tolkien To the Lighthouse (Virgina Woolf) Absalom, Absalom! and Light in August -- Faulkner Ulysses by James Joyce (I literally read this for fun and started it at the beach. A professor said this proves I am warped. He is not far wrong.) Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison The Color Purple |
Theresa |
Posted - March 25 2005 : 08:42:40 AM I enjoy:
Sara Donati's Into the Wilderness series One Thousand White Women To Kill a Mockingbird
I am currently reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd...it's along the same order of To Kill a Mockingbird |
susquesus |
Posted - March 24 2005 : 8:22:30 PM leatherstocking tales-all of 'em The Oak Openings The Littlepage Manuscripts-all of 'em Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee The Voyageur John Glenn- a Memoir Failure is Not an Option Pale Blue Dot The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane Robert Rauschenberg: a Retrospective New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence 2001-all of 'em Rondezvous with Rama-all of 'em Planet of the Apes-original Dune-all of 'em Dracula The Toughest Indian in the World PG Wodehouse' Jeeves stories anything about Tibet, Space Exploration, American History, World History, Photography, Astronomy, Aboriginal Cultures Hardy Boys Three Investigators Choose your own adventure books
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