# Recommend a Delightful, Old, Forgotten Book

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 20, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-delightful-old-forgotten-book/408660 "2007-06-20T00:56:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-delightful-old-forgotten-book/408660/61 "2007-06-22T04:52:16Z")

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I don’t want to recommend one so much as try and find one. I am fairly certain it was by an author named Weldon Hill (a psudonym) who wrote the book on which the movie “Onionhead” was based. The book I am trying to remember the title of had the name of a river in the South in the tirle and I think it may have been Okeefenokee but that may be completely wrong. Can anyone help? Either Amazon doesn’t have it or I have the author wrong.

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-delightful-old-forgotten-book/408660/62 "2007-06-22T05:06:11Z")

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**FaeriBeth** , _An Old-Fashioned Girl_! I have my grandmother’s copy from the Nineteenth Century around here somewhere. I also loved it when I read it in the 1950’s. All I remember are the names Fannie, Tom and the words _watered silk._ Just your mention of it brought that back.

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**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-delightful-old-forgotten-book/408660/63 "2007-06-22T09:10:30Z")

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[Dead Ned - An Autobiography Of A Corpse](http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Ned-Autobiography-John-Masefield/dp/B000I74PME/ref=sr_1_1/002-0918550-9516060?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182502244&sr=8-1), by John Masefield. I read it because I was amused by the title, and I thought it was an entertaining yarn. There is a sequel, but the title spoils Dead Ned,

_Live and Kicking Ned_.

This title is equally amusing, but I couldn’t bring myself to finish the book.

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