Books that move you..

[mycarsavw]

Yellow Pages has a things in it that'll move you - always best to go on a personal recommendation though.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This book is very moving too:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irritable-St.../dp/0859696375

[Tumble]

I'm currently wading through a series of books about dragons - Anne McCaffery's Chronicles of Pern.... ok it's not to everyone's taste, but it charts some 1000 years and more of a forgotten colony on a remote planet over the course of 16 books, jumping backwards and forwards with all sorts of little sub-plots going on. Brilliant page turning stuff, providing you're willing use your imagination a tad

[0iD]

I remember reading her Dragon Riders & Harper books when I were a lad

[Funkstar]

I'm currently wading through a series of books about dragons - Anne McCaffery's Chronicles of Pern.... ok it's not to everyone's taste, but it charts some 1000 years and more of a forgotten colony on a remote planet over the course of 16 books, jumping backwards and forwards with all sorts of little sub-plots going on. Brilliant page turning stuff, providing you're willing use your imagination a tad

I've read a short story based in the Pern world and was thinking about starting the series. Been reading Robin Hobb in the mean time though.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I'm currently wading through a series of books about dragons - Anne McCaffery's Chronicles of Pern.... ok it's not to everyone's taste, but it charts some 1000 years and more of a forgotten colony on a remote planet over the course of 16 books, jumping backwards and forwards with all sorts of little sub-plots going on. Brilliant page turning stuff, providing you're willing use your imagination a tad

Another book I may want to read!! I have never got round to reading any of Anne McCaffery's work but she is one of the greatest female science fiction authors from what I have heard. I am thinking of starting out with the The Talent series(I already have Pegasus in Flight).

[0iD]

http://www.narrativetherapylibrary.com/img/ps/spoo2.pdf

[zipzap]

What varied input! It never ceases to amaze me how many books there are to read, so it is great to be pointed in the right direction through recommendations. I will no doubt explore some of your favourites.. I was recently thinking about selling my golden classics or rather penguin classics, but after some quick consideration, decided it's best to hold onto them, in the very likely event of another harsh British winter...What is a snowstorm without a couch-confining book?

[Zak33]

Good thread... bloody good thread

Kitcheners Last Volunteer - Henry Allingham (RIP 09) and Denis Goodwin (S! old chap)
Times Arrow - Martin Amis (the ULTIMATE short story)
Vulcan 607 - Rowland White (this set the hairs on my arm up and I was SO releived at the end I nearly pee'd)
Magician - Raymond E Fiest (if yuo like swords and magic and monsters, and you like well written romance.. this is IT)

I suggest you rate this thread guys...top right corner of the thread, ad the odd thanks to a new Opening Poster.. ZipZap.. dunno who you are, but I love you

[kalniel]

Sophie's world - great introduction to philosophy wrapped in quite a page-turner.

If you've not studied philosophy but do understand it as a result of reading this, you will have been moved!

[Dareos]

I saw a guy reading the Anarchists Cookbook on the Tube once, that moved me..... rather quickly

[Ruggerbugger]

I'd have to go with Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. As a tale of someone who did something morally dubious and struggled with the consequences... well, let's just say it struck a chord with me when I read it. Very powerful book.

I hate to nitpick, but from what I know of Anne McAffrey, I'd put her firmly in Fantasy, not Science Fiction. For fans of either, they're certainly not the same thing.

How about short stories? I'll have to look up titles, but the first one that springs to mind is "Autopsy Room 4" in "Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King. It's about a guy who finds himself on an autopsy table and.. well, find out!

[Tumble]

I hate to nitpick, but from what I know of Anne McAffrey, I'd put her firmly in Fantasy, not Science Fiction. For fans of either, they're certainly not the same thing.

While I would agree that initially, it's almost pure fantasy, the saga as a whole does get very science-fictiony later on...

[kalniel]

I hate to nitpick, but from what I know of Anne McAffrey, I'd put her firmly in Fantasy, not Science Fiction. For fans of either, they're certainly not the same thing.

I disagree actually. The crystal singer series is definitely sci-fi, while the pern stuff is proper cross-genre stuff.

It's a bit like Neil F Hamilton's Void trilogy - sci-fi and fantasy.

In both cases you've got what seems like a fantasy story wrapped up in a sci-fi rationale.