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⌈ Secret Post #2993 ⌋

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Comments

Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone know any novels about forests or woods, and life within them. The sort of book that has the forest almost as a character itself and focuses a lot on atmosphere and mood. Basically the literary version of scenery porn?

No werewolves or sparkly vampire books please.

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

Lord of the Rings?

My lasting memory of reading this book was being absolutely sick of forests by the end.

Re: Novels about forests: OP Here

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. I didn't think LotR was very foresty, wide open horse-ridden plains perhaps, but I'll give it another look.

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

I had the opposite experience! I know people say Tolkien's writing is dry and unappealing, but I found it soothing just to get lost in his endless passages about scenery. Didn't care for the songs, though.

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

I think if I read it again, I might like these passages. But at the time, I just wanted to know what would happen to Frodo and the others, so I was really impatient with all the forests by the end.

I did start skipping all the songs while I read. I should go back and take it slower the next time I read it.

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint is a perfect fit for what it sounds like you're looking for.

Re: Novels about forests: OP Here

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. Looks interesting!

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

My Side of the Mountain is probably a bit young for you, but I always enjoyed it.

Re: Novels about forests: OP Here

[(Anonymous)]

Oh wow, that is a blast from the past. That was the book that first got me into camping and woods. I do own it, but I think I should go read it again. It has been too long.

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood is considered a fantasy classic by many, but I thought it was a little disappointing. It does fit what you're looking for, though.

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

Children's classics:

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Graham. (spelling?) The Wild Wood is a rather eldritch environment - but one of the good guys lives deep within.

Winnie-the-Pooh, by A A Milne. This is an open woodland - a forest in the old English sense. Animals having silly adventures.

Quite a few of the Robin Hood novels have a lot of woodland porn. I seem to remember a good one by Roger Lancelyn Green.

Adult fantasy: The Winter of the World, by Michael Scott Rohan. The middle volume of the trilogy is actually called "The Forge in the Forest" - and that forest is near-sentient. The trilogy as a whole is next rank after Tolkien, I'd say. Set in a recent glacial period; a group of friends do battle against the powers of the Ice.

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

SA: Also Hexwood, by Diana Wynne Jones. YA fantasy; it's been too long since I read it to give any coherent summary but there's a definite mythic wood. She did several with woodsy settings; I think The Pinhoe Egg is one of them (in the Chrestomanci series.)

Re: Novels about forests

[iceyred]

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. For all it's flaws and the author's incredibly masturbatory personality, it has some gorgeous prose, and one setting is in a sentient forest where the trees speak Latin.

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

I do believe Jack London's Call of the Wild had some Alaskan wilderness going on? I read it when I was younger and found some scenes to be pretty visceral (graphic description of dogs consuming bologna). But I do remember snow covered woodlands.

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

i remember liking the first book from this series:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mistmantle_Chronicles

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. Young girl gets lost in the forest and has to make her own shelter, find food and water, etc. It's really good!

Re: Novels about forests

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry, but I didn't enjoy it at all and I'm a King fan. The creepiness was there, but his protagonist in no way sounded like a nine year old girl, she sounded like a middle aged guy who'd forgotten how kids think or talk. Really disappointing, because so many of his older books with children were amazing. I mean look at The Shining!