Besides Haunted Bookshop, can anyone suggest good reading that is relevant to pipe smoking? I'm running out of fantasy novels by my favorite author and need some books ready in the queue.
Books For Pipers
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When the books run out, perhaps some music:
I've yet to find a book with a pipe as its main protagonist.
Pipes and cigars are just props in stories. Smoking is just something characters do—it's more ambience than a plot-driving activity.
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, really, any adventure novel by GA Henty, or Rafael Sabatini.
My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke by J. M. Barrie
Highly recommended! Available free:
My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke by J. M. Barrie - Free Ebook (gutenberg.org)
You'll want some Arcadia mixture...
And there's always Sherlock Holmes, also available at gutenberg.org
Highly recommended! Available free:
My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke by J. M. Barrie - Free Ebook (gutenberg.org)
You'll want some Arcadia mixture...
And there's always Sherlock Holmes, also available at gutenberg.org
Unfortunately I've read LotR so many times I could teach a master class on it. Thanks though!
If you like detective novels, Maigret (many novels by Georges Simenon) is quite the pipe smoker.
Steinbeck, Orwell, Hemingway, and Pearl Buck come to mind. Not pipe specific, but in the spirit. Books don't get better.
We actually are. Piping and piper are like nails on a chalkboard, we could be far worse.?Play nice, lads....
Ever read any Herman Melville?
And if you do an Internet search for "pipe" or "pipe pictures" most of the hits will be appealing only to engineers and plumbers. I wonder if this is because pipe smoking is considered passe or because the search engines want to please the World Harm Organisation and "save lives" from the tobacco disease.
Which brings me back to book suggestions: don't expect late 20th century and 21st century literature to sport pipe smoking. Look for books written before ca. AD 1960 or 1970.
Which brings me back to book suggestions: don't expect late 20th century and 21st century literature to sport pipe smoking. Look for books written before ca. AD 1960 or 1970.
