Name that book?

[aeoro]

I'm looking for a novel I checked out from the library a few years back. It was about a kid who either is kidnapped or runs away from home and ends up in the care of a elves (not sure if they were elves) that live in the woods. They raise and care for him. I believe the cover had a tree on it if that helps any.

I don't remember much more about the story. I was younger and never finished it.

Thanks.

[Superlucky]

I'm looking for the title to a book I read from the mid-90's. It's a novel set in Australia about a young guy on the dole who has health problems. He gets a live-in girlfriend who also has medical problems and is a recovering heroin addict. At some point in the book they both get genital warts. I remember liking the book back then, but I was young so for all I know it's actually terrible.

[jimplasticguy]

I read a series years ago, I believe it was a trilogy. What I remember best was that as people passed on, they moved into common consciousness in stars of all things. I thought for sure it was the Star Child Trilogy, but read description of that on Amazon and that doesn't look like it. So all that I remember is this afterlife star consciousness part, and the fact that I am fairly certain it was a series or trilogy.
Thanks in advance,
Jim

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by jimplasticguy

I read a series years ago, I believe it was a trilogy. What I remember best was that as people passed on, they moved into common consciousness in stars of all things. I thought for sure it was the Star Child Trilogy, but read description of that on Amazon and that doesn't look like it. So all that I remember is this afterlife star consciousness part, and the fact that I am fairly certain it was a series or trilogy.
Thanks in advance,
Jim

Intriguing! I hope someone can post the answer for us. (Like I need more on my TBR list!)

[Patricia]

Maybe one of the items listed in this Wikipedia aticle might ring a bell...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_m...cience_fiction)

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by jimplasticguy

I read a series years ago, I believe it was a trilogy. What I remember best was that as people passed on, they moved into common consciousness in stars of all things. I thought for sure it was the Star Child Trilogy, but read description of that on Amazon and that doesn't look like it. So all that I remember is this afterlife star consciousness part, and the fact that I am fairly certain it was a series or trilogy.
Thanks in advance,
Jim

It doesn't sound quite right, but the first thing I thought of was Ian Watson's Yaleen trilogy (The Book Of The River, The Book Of Being, The Book Of The Stars). It's been a very long time though, and I only remember the Black Current and the Godmind, and other fragments.

Cheers,
Marc

[igorsk]

Originally Posted by jimplasticguy

I read a series years ago, I believe it was a trilogy. What I remember best was that as people passed on, they moved into common consciousness in stars of all things. I thought for sure it was the Star Child Trilogy, but read description of that on Amazon and that doesn't look like it. So all that I remember is this afterlife star consciousness part, and the fact that I am fairly certain it was a series or trilogy.
Thanks in advance,
Jim

Not exactly what you described, but check Star Dance Trilogy by Spider Robinson or A Fire Upon the Deep/Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.

[desertgrandma]

Years ago, in the late 70's, I read a book that dealt with the Earth tilting on its axis....it was fictional, of course, and now I can't even remember why it did this......maybe because the polar ice caps melted?

Does anyone remember reading this? If I'm not mistaken, it was an old book even when I read it, in hardback form. The idea was to be in a plane when it happened so that you could land safely after it was over.

Don't laugh........just suspend belief.

[BenG]

Was it Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham? I remember it had a plane that was en route to Europe from New York when a world wide nuclear war broke out and the plane could not continue to Europe or return to the US. I think the nuclear blasts may have affected the Earth's axis.

[desertgrandma]

thanks BenG, but that wasn't it. As I recall, they landed the plane in Africa, which was the only country able to support life after the disaster.

[BenG]

I think in this book they landed in Antarctica to avoid nuclear fallout.

[wayspooled]

Originally Posted by BenG

I think in this book they landed in Antarctica to avoid nuclear fallout.

and because mcmurdo station had years of food? That one sounds like The Last Ship by William Brinkley. Not sure about jimplasticguy's trilogy, I have read it.. I can't remember the name yet.

[mores]

I read this interesting book a while back, and I can't remember either the title, or the author, or even the name of the protagonist.

It starts with us learning that the main character now tends to the garden of a university or college. He is afraid of telephones because whenever he gets near one, it starts ringing, even if it is disconnected, and whoever picks up the phone hears a horrible scream.
I think the protagonist was some kind of a detective or police man or something, and the scream comes from a kid that's posessed by something.

Yes, it's quite scary

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by mores

I think the protagonist was some kind of a detective or police man or something, and the scream comes from a kid that's posessed by something.

Yes, it's quite scary

Cool... sounds like a book I would like to read.

BOb

[Solicitous]

Originally Posted by Superlucky

I'm looking for the title to a book I read from the mid-90's. It's a novel set in Australia about a young guy on the dole who has health problems. He gets a live-in girlfriend who also has medical problems and is a recovering heroin addict. At some point in the book they both get genital warts. I remember liking the book back then, but I was young so for all I know it's actually terrible.

Bit late, but anyway. Sounds like the book Praise by Andrew M'Gahan. Bit of a write-up about 1/3 of the page down here; http://eurhythmania.blogspot.com/200...1_archive.html