Who owns Nicola's library?

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One of the pleasures of the Marlow novels for a lot of people seems to be finding that they share the characters' tastes in reading. There's only one book that I can remember that I read because I'd seen it mentioned—Brat Farrar, and I can see exactly why it's Ginty's sort of book; the situation is one she might romance about, and then there are the horses.

But when I first read the series, I was pleased to see that not only did Nicola read Hornblower and Lord Peter Wimsey, and dislike Dickens, all of which I also did, but that she and Lawrie had read The Flight of the Heron. I'd never met anyone, fictional or otherwise, who had also read it, apart from my mother and sister, and I was amazed (I still haven't met anyone else who's heard of it). Has anyone else had the same experience?

Comments

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think Horatio Hornblower and I are the only people who read Edward Gibbon's Decline & Fall for the giggles.

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There are giggles?

[tree_and_leaf]

I've read 'The Flight of the Heron' too!

This isn't a parallel example, but the references to people reading Tolkien in Anthony Price's books made me squee.

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Really, you have? I was such a giant fangirl of it when I was about 11 or 12—I think it was my first fandom :)

did you read the sequels too?

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes - very good stuff. I went through a bit of a Jacobite phase after reading 'Kidnapped'. *fangirls Alan Breck Stewart*

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What way does Nicola put it, 'the attraction of the disposed'? Yes, I had that phase too, despite the fact that any relevant ancestors around Scotland at the time were more likely to be doing the oppressing. (Well, my mother's maiden name is one of the clans who were marginally involved, but I think at that point our lot were already in Ireland and probably already Presbyterian.)

Mmm, Alan Breck...although I think I prefer Ewen's world. For one thing, it doesn't have Davie Balfour in it :-P Although Ian Stewart is an equal idiot for about half a book. Do you have favourites?