Something with classic status like Wuthering Heights is fine. Thanks.
For we shall slay evil with logic...As for the paranormal, Verdegris Deep
! It's about some kids who take some coins from a well and get cursed by the well's witch to make the wishes made on those coins come true. This goes about as pleasantly as expected.
I'm looking for fiction books about the Royal succession in Great Britain. Proper stories, rather than historical reconstruction, but I certainly would like a bit of a general idea of the history.
Additionally, books which just used it as a setting or featuring a detailed fictional counterpart will also be accepted.
Mercedes Lackey did a series of books about it starting with This Scepter'd Isle
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickI've been plugging this wherever I thought it was appropriate because it's a good deal.
Free audiobook from Neil Gaiman, lasts till halloween. For every download the site donates money to charity. Link is here http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B009VHTR5C&qid=1351446375&sr=1-1
@ the person looking for the goodish then not so goodish protagonist. Well, you could read the "Scavenger Trilogy" by K.J. Parker if you are looking for that kind of guy that looks okay on first blush but then turns out to be not quite that way at all. Of course there is a lot more to it than that but that is one of the themes of the work.
There's a page for it on this very wiki but it would be spoily to read that without reading the books first.
For historical fiction books about the Royal succession in Great Britain I'd suggestion the Young Royals series. As far as I can tell it's highly accurate. Mary Bloody Mary is the best in my option. It's about Mary Tudor losing favor with her father, Henry VIII, who divorces her mother so her can get a son, but in the end she's Mary I of England.
I'm wondering if there's anything quite like Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness. It has a stubborn knight, a great prince, a powerful sorcerer, and an archer princess. More generally I'm looking for magic, love, and adventure in the middle ages.
Are there any books as quietly wonderous as The Night Circus?
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NOFrom what I can tell about Crown of Stars I wouldn't be interested because it seems to have a lot of war in it. Ultimately Subjective might like it though for the part about how "In King Henry's court there is intrigue brewing as Henry has not chosen an heir from his three legitimate children, and it is well known that he favours his bastard son Sanglant, who by the law cannot inherit the throne." The king's half-sister is rebelling against him and some creatures are invading too. A couple of commoners get involved somehow. I'd like something with less war and more focus on noble characters.
I recall Crown of Stars focusing more on the characters and magic plot than the warfare. At least, it was Elliott's writing of the character interactions that drew me into the books. It's certainly a lot less light than Tamora Pierce's work, though.
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"Doctor Who means never having to say you're kidding." - BocajA conversation with my mom (a retired nurse) brought up the question of young adult books along the line of the Cherry Ames series (in which several young ladies go through training to become nurses, and later volumes deal with the various kinds of jobs nurses of the time could have.) Except for modern nursing, as the Cherry Ames books are very much of their era. Anyone know of such?
I've been wondering that myself. It seems like all there is is Treasure Island and books based off of Pirates Of The Caribbean.
Literature.On Stranger Tides came first, I'll have you know.
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NOThe second book of the Gentleman Bastard series and the Liveship Traders contain some pirate adventuring. Mixed with fantasy, though.
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"Doctor Who means never having to say you're kidding." - BocajCan anyone recommend me anything similar to The Night Circus?
It's difficult to describe, exactly (which is part of what makes it so good), but it has a fairly small yet complex ensemble cast of distinct and recognisable and memorable characters, intriguing philosophical themes integrated subtly and overtly in a number of ways, and most uniquely and importantly an exquisitely clear and pervasive and dreamlike poetic atmosphere. I don't think I've ever encountered anything with that kind of style before. Arrrgh. If you've read it you probably know what I'm trying to describe.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? :/ Clear and pervasive atmosphere is probably the most important part, I guess.
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...I'd suggest Wuthering Heights, but that kinda falls under romance...