Comfort books
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shadowkat67 by way of fara_shimbo. Comfort books; books you reread to relax.
A few of mine.
There're the Manning Coles books, especially the Tommy Hambledon ones. A series of delightful adventures (think Intelligence as it should be, not as it really is) where the good guys win and very silly and audacious things happen. I do hope someday someone reprints these again; my copies are falling apart. Better yet, someone releases an ebook version so I can carry the lot around in my pocket whenever I feel like it. (Fair warning - the very first in the series "A Drink to Yesterday" is a good, fairly realistic WWI spy novel. The fun starts with "A Toast To Tomorrow". )
Next is Georgette Heyer's Regency-era romances (don't like her later era mysteries for some reason). When I'm feeling out of sorts I wander into the back room and make a random withdrawal from the Four Foot Shelf of Heyer, and invariably cheer up.
Lord of the Rings of course. Not so much even for the story which I know backwards and forwards in several versions (I've got copies of the entire set of notes that Christopher Tolkien published, and have read the four volumes connected with the writing of LOTR several times), but because I like to visit Tom Bombadil's house, Rivendell, the Ents, Lorien, and Hobbiton. The Inn at Bree. Etc. I was impressed by the movies, because of how much so many of the places looked about the way I'd imagined them. Strangely enough, I didn't have any mental images of most of the characters, but I do now.
The Witches of Karres, by James Schmitz. One of the most delightfully wild space operas I've ever encountered. I want to move to Karres. :)
There are more, but it's late. Maybe I'll add some later.
shadowkat67 by way of fara_shimbo. Comfort books; books you reread to relax.A few of mine.
There're the Manning Coles books, especially the Tommy Hambledon ones. A series of delightful adventures (think Intelligence as it should be, not as it really is) where the good guys win and very silly and audacious things happen. I do hope someday someone reprints these again; my copies are falling apart. Better yet, someone releases an ebook version so I can carry the lot around in my pocket whenever I feel like it. (Fair warning - the very first in the series "A Drink to Yesterday" is a good, fairly realistic WWI spy novel. The fun starts with "A Toast To Tomorrow". )
Next is Georgette Heyer's Regency-era romances (don't like her later era mysteries for some reason). When I'm feeling out of sorts I wander into the back room and make a random withdrawal from the Four Foot Shelf of Heyer, and invariably cheer up.
Lord of the Rings of course. Not so much even for the story which I know backwards and forwards in several versions (I've got copies of the entire set of notes that Christopher Tolkien published, and have read the four volumes connected with the writing of LOTR several times), but because I like to visit Tom Bombadil's house, Rivendell, the Ents, Lorien, and Hobbiton. The Inn at Bree. Etc. I was impressed by the movies, because of how much so many of the places looked about the way I'd imagined them. Strangely enough, I didn't have any mental images of most of the characters, but I do now.
The Witches of Karres, by James Schmitz. One of the most delightfully wild space operas I've ever encountered. I want to move to Karres. :)
There are more, but it's late. Maybe I'll add some later.
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Date: 2006-08-10 05:08 pm (UTC)As for other comfort books........
There is quite a list accumulated over the years!
Early Pern books, Deryni the first three, Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey. Randall Garrett's Darcy