[bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum Thicket

  • From: "Ron Miller" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:59:16 -0400

Hi Jim,

Yes, I actually read them both as a talking book, years ago. Very fine stories.

 

Ron Miller

From: Jim O'Neill [mailto:jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:30 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum 
Thicket

 

Did you read the sequel I think that it was called Seeking.  It came out in the 
September 2008 issue of analog I think.

 

Jim,

 

jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx

 

From: Ron Miller [mailto:ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:18 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum 
Thicket

 

I had forgotten about emergence. It was fantastic, I first read it serialized 
in analog back in the 1980s. 

 

I keep almost reading "Damnation Alley" by roger Zelazney, which was also made 
into a movie with the same title-though I don't know if the movie stuck very 
closely to the book's plot.

 

Best to all

 

Ron Miller

From: Mayrie ReNae [mailto:mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:06 AM
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum 
Thicket

 

Hi Bob,

 

I adore the quote in your sig file!

 

Another postapocolyptic book, the only one I've ever read is "Emergence" by 
David R. Palmer.  Bookshare doesn't have it, but I'll see if I can get  a copy 
cheap somewhere.

 

Here's its synopsis.

 

Book Description:
               Immune from the effects of a bionuclear war that
                  has destroyed most of humanity, an eleven-year-old girl
                  realizes that she represents a new stage in human
evolution.
                  Recording her thoughts and experiences in a diary, she
sets
                  out across a scarred America seeking others of her kind.

Mayrie

  

 

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From: Bob W [mailto:rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:31 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum 
Thicket

Hi Lissi.

 

I never ever read children's books, never! (I ain't one, I ain't got none, and 
I don't want none.)

 

But your description of the "plumb thicket"'s main character and her approach 
to books is so intriguing that I want to encourage you to hurry and get it in 
the collection so I can read it.

 

Bob (the grump)

 


A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing 
you just did? Don't do that.' Douglas Adams  

        ----- Original Message ----- 

        From: Estelnalissi <mailto:airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  

        To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

        Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:31 PM

        Subject: [bookshare-discuss] on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum 
Thicket

         

        Dear  Booksharian Friends,

         

        Thanks to all of you who contributed to the discussion on post 
apocalyptic books and especially to Bob W. for starting it. The detail in which 
these books were described helps me to decide which to read. I've only read 
three of them of which, The Postman, the book, not the movie, was my favorite. 
It was hopeful, inspiring  and exciting.

         

        In a few days I'll be checking in The Plum Thicket by Janice Holt 
Giles. 'The copyright is 1954 so some of you who enjoy books written then might 
want to check it out. Whether you like her work in general, I think most of you 
might share some of its eight-year-old narrator's views on books and reading. 

         

        "I stood before the rows of books, undecided, all of their bindings, 
all of their titles, alluring. I cannot remember when I did not have a love for 
books amounting to reverence; my passion for reading is so deep that it is 
actually an addiction, like the drug habit. I would read the telephone 
directory if nothing else were available. But not only is opening a book, any 
book, any time, an adventure which makes my pulse beat faster, I love books 
also for their own sake. I like to hold in my hand a beautiful book, feel its 
quality and texture, smell it and, I can think of no better word, love it. I 
particularly love the old leather bindings, such as those on my grandfather's 
shelves, and I particularly love, too, the heavy, torn paper and the exquisite 
type which many of them had. A beautiful book is truly a work of art.

        What should it be? Scott? Thackeray? Trollope? Brontë? Tentatively I 
took down Madame Bovary. I knew Grandfather greatly appreciated Flaubert But 
the text was in French. Regretfully I put it back. The Dickens shelf was next, 
and with a kind of homing instinct I picked out David Copperfield. I had read 
it twice already, but it was always irresistible."

         

        Always with love,

         

        Lissi

         

        Here is the information from the dust jacket:

         

         

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