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Stephen Lawhead has written some wonderful Arthurian books, starting with Taliesin. Nikolai Tolstoy's books are also worth reading. He is a descendant of the other Tolstoy and genius is apparently genetic in that family. I would warn against Marion Zimmer Bradley, not because she is a poor...

Two atrocities stick in my mind (and haunt my dreams). We were forced to study both "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and "Great Expectations". Admittedly, it did enable me to learn early in life that Dickens and Hardy were not worth the time it took to read their books, but in real life when a book...

No. I'm not very fond of Milton. I have glanced at it occasionally, but it doesn't interest me.

At the moment I'm reading Lord of the Rings, Northanger Abbey The Silmarillion and The Complete Molesworth.

For some years, I was buying and reading an average of a book a day, so I must have read thousands. I grew up surrounded by books, with a mother who read to us from the time we were babies and who always loved books. By the age of three, I had taught myself to read by asking my mother letters...

I was amazed that His Dark Materials and Harry Potter were even in the top 21, and disappointed, though not surprised that Dickens did as well as he did. I would have liked to see Persuasion do better, but both Pride and Prejudice and Emma did very well, as they deserved to. I was overjoyed...

Hello everyone! I've just joined. This place looks very interesting. :)