You should really read A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher. It's by far the most enjoyable book I've ever read. If you don't believe me you should read it. Everyone I've ever given it to (yes, you give it. You don't loan it. Because it's too good to give back), has fallen in love with it. If you don't believe me you should read it. You may have some trouble finding it, unless you go to Amazon.com... Christopher is truly gifted and yet, for some reason, his books (except Veronica, which is the only one I don't like), are very hard to find.
Stars takes you on the most amazing Arabian Knights type journey. You'll learn about exotic spiders, stars, angels, the desert, magic, flying, the Vietnam war and an assortment of other topics that took him over four years to research and combine into a fantasy of breath-taking coincidences and intense characters. Christopher uses his imagination to its fullest extent. To my chagrin, in each of his books he also includes at least one bizarre, painful chapter that I'm sure must be acid induced. I usually struggle through those, chapters that is, not acid trips...
Please don't conclude, even after reading the great reviews on Amazon, that Stars is a science fiction type story. It truly isn't. It's a thriller, a mystery, a romance, a true masterpiece. If you don't believe me you should read it.
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i second that motion. one of my favourite books. also read the eyre affair by jasper fforde. excellent.
You should read it! I did borrow it and return it only because I worked with Hayley and I couldn't escape her if I tried to make off with it. I immediately bought one for my mom who passed it on to most of my family.
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