Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com> writes: > It's a bit of a digression, but if we're discussing comfort books I have > to also mention Georgette Hayer's regency novels, Laurie King's > Russell/Holmes novels, and anything Lord Peter. Yes, one can't forget Lord Peter. (Dorothy Sayers, for those not already familiar with them). Particularly of course the last two, _Gaudy Night_ and _Busman's Honeymoon_. And I recently steeled myself to read the unfinished (posthumously completed by somebody else) book, _Thrones, Dominations_, and was very pleasantly surprised (partly because my expectations weren't too high going in). It has a number of absolutely wonderful scenes, and I didn't feel the overall shape was too crude. I'm afraid I've bounced off many of the other things cited as comfort books here -- Eddings in particular. I got 5 pages into an Eddings book once. So it's nice to be able to agree with something. For me it's Heinlein, especially _The Rolling Stones_, and Doc Smith (pretty much anything). And Sayers. And _The Mote In God's Eye_. And _Dune_. And Anthony Price and Patrick O'Brian and Peter O'Donnell. It occurs to me that there may actually be people here who *don't know* about Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise books. And even W.E.B Griffin (recent-historical military stuff mostly). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info