Name that book?

[wayrad]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

I just finished "Watership Down." now I'd like to get book that was out about the same time. This one was about moles whose warren was overrun by a monster mole. Some of them go off and become mole equivalent of Kung Fu Masters. Any ideas?

If not Duncton Wood (or maybe one of the sequels?), something from Brian Jacques' Redwall series maybe?

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

That doesn't look like it. There wasn't so much in the way of romance as that one suggests.

There may be less "romance" and more of that relationship being the pivot. This description might be better:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/william-horwood/duncton-wood.htm

It is one series I know most often compared to Watership Down.

Cheers,
Marc

[Sparrow]

Wikipedia has a list of fictional moles.

[LCF]

Originally Posted by mbovenka

Amazon has it: http://www.amazon.com/s?search-alias...=9780553290998

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

There may be less "romance" and more of that relationship being the pivot. This description might be better:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/...ncton-wood.htm

It is one series I know most often compared to Watership Down.

Cheers,
Marc

That description is much better and is, in fact, the book I'm looking for. Didn't know there was a whole series. Thanks! Karma to you, if I can.

[TimMason]

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

So it was a not long book and a satirical farce about what a early 1960's T.V sitcom family would have been like if they were Neanderthals. Think “Leave It To Beaver” in the Stone Age.

That could be "Evolution Man; Or How I Ate My Father" by Roy Lewis.

[piper10]

I read a sci-fi/horror type book about 20 years ago, I think, where the earth had started fighting back against man -- roads wouldn't stay paved, etc. The one clear thing I remember was someone becoming encased in a tree. Anybody remember that?

[nesagwa]

It was a big collection of works produced by a college I believe. It was published on this site a few years ago, it was a big deal at the time. I could have sworn it was Oxford, but I can't remember the name of the collection for the life of me.

[c1yat]

Having hit gold before here I would really appreciate more help please!

Its Sci Fi
About a space pilot that had modifications that gave him better vision, fangs claws etc, at one point he fights big green animal, his body shuts down after he uses up too much energy

There was a sequel where he rescues some children who live in underground tunnels and wear dark glasses

Any ideas?

Thanks

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by nesagwa

It was a big collection of works produced by a college I believe. It was published on this site a few years ago, it was a big deal at the time. I could have sworn it was Oxford, but I can't remember the name of the collection for the life of me.

Harvard Classics?

[nesagwa]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Harvard Classics?

Yes thank you. That's been driving me nuts all day.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by nesagwa

Yes thank you. That's been driving me nuts all day.

Yeah, I know that feeling: the answer's in your head, but you can't find it. Frustrating. Always look behind the lounge first - it's probably not there, but usually a bit of coin turns up.

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by nesagwa

Yes thank you. That's been driving me nuts all day.

You'll find the Harvard Classics are in the MobileRead upload section, thanks to some tedious work by our Good Master RWood (where is he, by the way?). Just search for titles by Charles W. Eliot who was the editor of Harvard Classics.

[MelC]

Originally Posted by piper10

I read a sci-fi/horror type book about 20 years ago, I think, where the earth had started fighting back against man -- roads wouldn't stay paved, etc. The one clear thing I remember was someone becoming encased in a tree. Anybody remember that?

Haven't read it but the description has always intrigued me - this sounds like Steven R. Boyett's "Ariel: The Book of Change"? Yes?

Mel

[piper10]

Originally Posted by MelC

Haven't read it but the description has always intrigued me - this sounds like Steven R. Boyett's "Ariel: The Book of Change"? Yes?

Mel

No, there was no magic/fantasy involved. It was more horror/sci-fi. It was just plain scary.