whats your favourite non terry book
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The Stand
Stephen King
When I split from my hubby it was the only book I could afford (in charity shop for 50 pence)
It became my refuge, my release. I was going through a really crappy divorce and this book at that time was my only companion and became my way of escaping the pain.
The original copy is now so tatty I have left it on the shelf in peace as it deserves and bought a new one. Every time I read it I go back to the bad place but at the end I come back to what is now my Wonderful place!
I love this book and read it about once every year. It keeps my feet on the ground and reminds me of what could be and what can be.
Number 2 on the list of not TP books would be the Green Mile, again by Stephen King. OMG I cry so much at this series of books I look like a Panda!
Stephen King
When I split from my hubby it was the only book I could afford (in charity shop for 50 pence)
It became my refuge, my release. I was going through a really crappy divorce and this book at that time was my only companion and became my way of escaping the pain.
The original copy is now so tatty I have left it on the shelf in peace as it deserves and bought a new one. Every time I read it I go back to the bad place but at the end I come back to what is now my Wonderful place!
I love this book and read it about once every year. It keeps my feet on the ground and reminds me of what could be and what can be.
Number 2 on the list of not TP books would be the Green Mile, again by Stephen King. OMG I cry so much at this series of books I look like a Panda!
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Books are like that with intelligent people. After mommie dearest convinced my Dad to make me a ward of the state and send me to the Dominican Republic for 1 1/2 years, I found The Hobbit in the library, and Joy of Joys The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and managed to "fake" it into my schoolwork by writing reports of them. They helped me keep my sanity in what had become an insane world at the age of 15. I won't bore you with details but Hellish is a good frame of reference.
Escape is the best thing at times. Sometimes you have to deal with the crap, but there is nothing wrong with a little Journey to the Centre of the Mind.
Escape is the best thing at times. Sometimes you have to deal with the crap, but there is nothing wrong with a little Journey to the Centre of the Mind.
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:think: I just can't decide between them.
The sword and The Elfstone of Shannara by Terry Brooks are deeply in my heart,very very deeply, but obviously I must mention The dragons of Autumn twilight/winter night/spring dawn and the twins trilogy by Weis-Hickman (the ones in which he's alive ) and The LofTheRings, and OceanoMare by Alessandro Baricco, his best book before he lost it, that I've loved for all my teen years. All this books together, I cannot choose. It would be like tearing my soul apart...
:think: I just can't decide between them. The sword and The Elfstone of Shannara by Terry Brooks are deeply in my heart,very very deeply, but obviously I must mention The dragons of Autumn twilight/winter night/spring dawn and the twins trilogy by Weis-Hickman (the ones in which he's alive
) and The LofTheRings, and OceanoMare by Alessandro Baricco, his best book before he lost it, that I've loved for all my teen years. All this books together, I cannot choose. It would be like tearing my soul apart...
Tina a.k.a.SusanSto.Helit said:
They helped me keep my sanity in what had become an insane world at the age of 15.
Escape is the best thing at times. Sometimes you have to deal with the crap, but there is nothing wrong with a little Journey to the Centre of the Mind.
Escape is the best thing at times. Sometimes you have to deal with the crap, but there is nothing wrong with a little Journey to the Centre of the Mind.
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It's hard picking something as it really depends on my mood, but my favourite non-Terry book is probably the His Dark Materials trilogy. I read Northern Lights for the first time when I was 14 and loved it... I've lost count of how often I've read them now! Like TP, His Dark Materials are books I can re-read a lot without getting bored
The series is indeed fantasy and the writer is Philip Pullman.
I must get around to reading these myself one of these days.
I must get around to reading these myself one of these days.
