This just in: The Essential Man’s Library: 50 Fictional Adventure Books Edition. Hey, where’s G.A. Henty on that list? And I have to say up front, She and Ayesha are just not going to make my read-in-this-lifetime list. Maybe I’m missing out, but I think I’d rather read Patrick O’Brian and Wodehouse again.
Hey! Where’s O’Brian on that list?
No O’Brian, no Manhood. It’s that simple.
Note: I mean that in a normal, non-weird way.
What? Did you mean to say . . . I can’t believe it. That is so weird and howcanIsaythis ab-normal? Where’s the comment censor?
I agree, you’ve got to have Patrick O’Brian. And I have to admit, She and its sequels never grabbed me. But King Solomon’s Mines is well worth your time.
Yes, get O’Brian in there.
Never read She, but agree about King Solomon’s Mines. (The drivel-infested League of Extrordinary Gentlemen notwithstanding, I think a young Sean Connery would have done a great job as Quartermain in a film version of KSM. I saw the Deborah Kerr/Stewart Granger version some years ago, but don’t recall much about it, other than the gravity-defying hairdos of Umbopa and Twala.)