[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Great Great Books

[Rebecca Dreiling]

I've already mentioned these books but, I'm going to again, because I love 
them!

Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books are wickedly smart and fun.  He's also 
written the 1rst book in his Nursery Crime Series called The Big Over Easy 
which is also very funny.  If I was going to read one of his books first, I 
would go with The Eyre Affair.

If you're into mysteries, as I am, Laurie R. King's Mary Russell books are 
very fun.  Pure frivolity really...Sherlock Holmes takes on a young female 
assistant in his later years ..well, you get the gist.

I read Gone with The Wind (I know, not very high brow :) every couple years. 
  I find, with time, that I look at the characters in a different way.  When 
I was 15, I looked at Scarlett's life and thought "Oh, how wicked and fun".  
Ten years later, I feel a bit sorry for her.  I love a book that can be rich 
and rewarding at different times of your life.

For pure, no brainer, historical cross-genre fiction, I love The Outlander 
Series.  This is more for the ladies (my gay bro thinks they are fun too) 
but, I enjoy the time-traveling rough men in kilts with a historical bent to 
the books.  She doesn't take herself too seriously and I enjoy that.

I could name off a ton of classic lit that I have loved.  I find however, at 
this stage in my life, I value entertainment and escapism as oppossed to a 
hard, depressing read.  (This is not limited to lit as I feel the same about 
films for the most part...I hate leaving the theatre feeling like I want to 
cry for a week!  Just not my thing anymore....when I was 14 The Brontes and 
the like were perfectly suited not so much anymore)