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<h1>My Book Page</h1>
<b><p>Anyone who visited my home would come across several overflowing bookcases.
It was very difficult to decide how to approach this page, as I like so many types of reading, and am a firm believer
that the computer will never replace the aesthetic feel of a book in my hands.<br>
I decided to try and categorise my various tastes in reading, and then give some favourite
examples of both "<font color="teal">classic</font>" and "<font color="green">modern</font>" (post 1960) authors, but due to space, many are left out!<br>
Where I find an informative or interesting website for a particular author, I am slowly introducing links, but this may take some time to complete!
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<dl><dd><h4>Pure Classics</h4></dd>
<p>To my shame I have never been a Dickens fan, and also have never managed to complete Melville's
"Moby Dick", or Tolstoys "War and Peace" despite several attempts! The following are amongst the favourites:</p>
<dl><dd><p><font color="teal"> <a href="http://www.xikum.co.uk/gainsbro/history/gb_lit.htm"><font color="teal">George Eliot</font></a> "The Mill On The Floss"; James Hilton "Lost Horizon";
<a href="http://tlc.ai.org/steinbec.htm"><font color="teal">John Steinbeck</font></a> "The Grapes Of Wrath"; Jane Austin "Emma"; Lew Wallace "Ben-Hur"</font></p></dd></dl>
<h4>Science Fantasy</h4>
<p>Probably my favourite form of reading for entertainment, fuelled years ago, after reading Tolkien, on whom today the
leading SF authors still model their books, producing "multilogies on the same theme. I am eagerly awaiting the release
of a ninth book in one series now!
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<dl><dd><p><font color="teal"><a href="http://www.tolkiensociety.org"><font color="teal">J.R.Tolkien</font></a> "Lord Of The Rings", "The Hobbit", etc.</font><br>
<font color="green">Julian May "Saga Of The Exiles" series; <a href="http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/7400/"><font color="green">Robert Jordan's</font></a> "Wheel Of Time" series,
Raymond Feist (various); Stephen King "The Dark Tower" series; <a href="http://members.aol.com/dragnhld/index2.html"><font color="green">Anne McCaffrey</font></a> "Dragon Books" series</font></dd></dl>
<h4>Science Fiction</h4>
<p> It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between some sci fi and sci fantasy, but generally where there is some technology involved,
I class it as sci fi. This, however is not a finite rule with many borderline cases.
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<dl><dd><p><font color="teal">H.G.Wells "War Of The Worlds", "The Time Machine", Arthur C.Clarke "2001 A Space Odyssey"</font><br>
<font color="green">Julian May "Galactic Milieu" trlogy, "Intervention"; </font></dd></dl>
<h4>Historical Fiction</h4>
<p>Most of my history knowledge has been gleaned not from school history lessons, but from
reading novels set in the periods which interest me most. From Arthurian legend though the
Plantagenets to the Tudors and Stewarts have always been eras which grab my attention,
but I am currently in an "ancient Egyptian" and early Mexican phase!
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<dl><dd><font color="teal">Anya Seton "Kathryn"; Daphne Du Maurier "The Loving Spirit"; Margaret Mitchell "Gone With The Wind</font><br>
<font color="green">Josephine Cox (various); Christian Jacq "Ramses" series (ancient Egypt); Stephen Lawhead "The Pendragon Cycle"</font></dd></dl>
<h4>Set in India / Far East </h4>
<p>Well given my fondness of Japan and China, this had to come in somewhere!</p>
<dl><dd><p><font color="teal"><a href="http://dept.english.upenn.edu/Projects/Buck/"><font color="teal">
Pearl S.Buck</font></a> "The Good Earth", set in China just before the revolution, started my love of oriental culture</font><br>
<font color="green">James Clavell "Sho-gun", "Gai-jin" and others; Catherine Lim "The Bondmaid"; M.M.Kaye "House Of Shade", "Shadow Of The Moon"</font></p></dd></dl>
<h4>Horror</h4>
<dl><dd><p><font color="teal">Bram Stoker "Dracula"; Dennis Wheatley "The Devil Rides Out", "The Ka Of Gifford Hillary", etc</font><br>
<font color="green">James Herbert "Lair", "Rats"; Stephen King "It" , "Firestarter" </font></p></dd></dl>
<h4>Adventure</h4>
<dl><dd><p><font color="teal"><a href="http://www.getyourwordsworth.com/WORDSWORTH-JackLondon.html"><font color="teal">Jack London</font></a> "The Sea Wolf", etc; R.L.Stevenson "Kidnapped"; John Buchan "The Thirtynine Steps"</font><br>
<font color="green">Clive Cussler (various); Sydney Sheldon (various); Robert Ludlum (various)</font></p></dd></dl>
<h4>Non Fiction (general)</h4>
<p>Just a few odd ones I picked from many, to show I can read non-fiction occasionally!</p>
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<font color="green">Hannah Hauxwell (with Barry Cockroft) "Hannah"; Jenny Cockell "Yesterdays Children";
Zlata Filipovic "Zlata's Diary"; Derek Longden "I'm A Stranger Here Myself"; Dick Oliver "Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 In 24 Hours" (without whom you would not be reading this!)</font></p></dd></dl></dl>
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<b><p>I have been checking through the shelves as I wrote this,
amazed at how many books I was having to miss out, and how many I had read and forgotten about.
With the amount of reading I have done, it's a wonder I ever had time to do anything else!<br>
I can recommend any of the above if your tastes happen to be similar to mine.</p></b>
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