*turns around and looks* I'll add a few. These are books to just reach for, whether I have 5 minutes or 5 hours and have places of honor in my collection: ....and in no particular order.... Agent of Change Jhereg Roadmarks A Brief History of Time Dragon and the George Witches of Karres The Cross-Time Engineer Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon Emergence Best Loved Poems of the American People The Gray Lensman (or any Doc Smith) Ringworld Operation Chaos Man of Steel Woman of Kleenex (in All the Myriad Ways) The Tar-Aiym Krang Jumper Myth Adventures A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown The Secret Country "I never drempt of you in MY philosophy" :) The Rolling Stones (any Heinlein, actually) The Gods Themselves The Chosen Song of Sorcery Sector General series Jonathan Seagull Chicken The Compleat Enchanter The Weapon Shops of Isher Oath of Fealty The Pride of Chanur At The Seventh Level Thrice Upon a Time Limricks Shadow Magic Fahfrd and The Gray Mouser Hitchhikers Guide Pale Gray for Guilt (or any Travis McGee) The Warlock In Spite of Himself Rissa Kergulen Her Majesty's Wizard The Ship Who Sang Alan > -----Original Message----- > From: Lisa Grant Coffin [mailto:lisa at spindot.com] > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:48 > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Comfort Books > > > hello everyone > > i've been following the strand and thought i would add some authors i > re-read: > > kate elliot > tolkien > of course steven brust's vlad & khaavren, also brokedown p. > robin hobb- both the farseer series and the ship of magic series > lynn flewelling's nightrunner series (i think someone else mentioned this) > katheryn kurtz, both the templars and the co-written adepts > guy gavriel kay, sarantium series, tigana, and summer tree etc > raymond feist's 18 or so books. i loved them. > mercedes lackey; although one can only re-read them once every > few years. i > like the bards too > weiss & hickman's dragonlance chronicles. (my ten year old son loves them > now) -there's just too many fond memories to cause me to look at these any > other way > eddings (same reason as weiss & hickman) > melanie rawn > roger zelazny ( just read the entire amber chronicles omnibus. > life changing > read, disagreeing with every one who nitpicked him) > anne perry- victorian mysteries > george r.r. martin - the sweeping epic thing for a space of time > david drake - another sweeping epic thing for another space of time > mary stewart's merlin trilogy > dave duncan-the 'sword' series and the 'blade' series. although there is a > plot device in the third sword book that irritated me to no end. > anne rice- in a cold winter, re-read is fun (any of the vampire > chronicles) > gene wolfe's torturer trilogy. > > > ya books: > ursula k leguin > l'engle > chronicles of narnia > r.l. stevenson > mark twain > harry potter > any lloyd alexander > diane duane's witch series > ibbotson's 'secret of platform 13, island of the aunts, which witch' > roald dahl > /. /. /. / ./. /. /. /. /. /. /. / > lgc's weblog: http://radio.weblogs.com/0107188/ >