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Originally posted by itsallmaya
reply to post by Habit4ming
As a child, I loved "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle. I found a beat-up copy of it a few years back at a yard sale, and of course, had to have it.
"A Swiftly Tilting Planet" was another great book of hers. The Chronicle of Narnia series and anything by C.S. Lewis is good too.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Originally posted by itsallmaya
reply to post by Habit4ming
As a child, I loved "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle. I found a beat-up copy of it a few years back at a yard sale, and of course, had to have it.
"A Swiftly Tilting Planet" was another great book of hers. The Chronicle of Narnia series and anything by C.S. Lewis is good too.
C.S. Lewis was a staunch atheist, until he had a conversion experience as a result of his late night talks with his fiend J.R.R. Tolkien, from which he came to recognize in "the story" something so radically foreign to our human conceptions of justice that he came to see, for him, that it, the story, had in his words "the fingerprints of God written all over it", but even still he described his conversion as one where he was dragged kicking and screaming to the light of truth.
"Our liberation is God's compulsion."
~ C.S. Lewis
Have you read Weaveworld?
Clive Barker's Weaveworld
The novel revolves around the world of the Fugue, a magical world which lies woven within a rug. Many decades ago the Seerkind (creatures of magical abilities) decided to hide themselves through a spell or "Rapture" in a safe haven after being hunted down and eradicated by humans for centuries (with humans most commonly depicting them as demons and fairies in their mythological tales) as well as being decimated by a destructive being known as The Scourge.
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Originally posted by smyleegrl
Another favorite... The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon.
In the books, a woman ends up going back in time to Scotland and the Bonnie Prince Jacobite attempt for the throne. There's a whole series of books, currently the protagonists are in 1776 America and fighting in the revolution.
I love these books for e history (Gabaldon does her research and is historically accurate) as well as the fictional plot. Great read, will definetly make you think.edit on 29-9-2012 by smyleegrl because: (no reason given)