The best scenes...

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30 Day Book Meme: – Day 09 – Best scene ever

This is going to have to be a multi-part answer. I love good scenes; I love rereading good scenes even when I don't reread the whole book.

I'll start off with The Ten Best Scenes in Dorothy Dunnett

1. Lymond's intrusive visit to Midculter at the beginning of The Game of Kings in "Opening Gambit: Threat to a Castle"
   
2. Lymond's imprisonment at Dunbarton in The Game of Kings
   
3. Lymond's visit to Flaw Valleys right after that
   
4. Don Luis, in The Game of Kings
   
5. The scene in which Lymond is poisoned in Queen's Play
   
6. The chess game in Pawn in Frankincense
   
7. The scene which follows the chess game, between Lymond and Phillipa, in Pawn in Frankincense
   
8. The Tsar recuits Lymond (or the other way around) in The Ringed Caslte ("You are forgiven.")
   
9. The House of the Revels, in The Ringed Castle.
   
10. The last few pages of The Ringed Castle

Then for other books:

1. The choice of the new king in A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
   
2. The ambassadorial climax of A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whelan Turner
   
3. The long conversation between Mr Rochester and Jane Eyre, late on what was supposed to be their wedding day, in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
   
4. The visit of Bradley Headstone, the Schoolmaster, to the lawyer Eugene Wrayburn's place, in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
   
5. Any moment in any of the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich in which Ranger calls Stephanie "Babe"
   
6. The funeral scene at the beginning of It Had to be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
   
7. The scene in which Xax's wings are stripped in The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
   
8. The first meeting with Strider, at Bree, in The Lord of the Rings
   
9. Sam Vimes comes into the mines in the climactic "Where's my cow?" scene in Thud! by Terry Pratchett
   
10. Miles Vorkosigan is tried for treason in The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold. Or maybe the scene where he confronts Gregor and Cavilo in the airlock in The Vor Game. Or the scene in which he wrestles with temptation in Memory. Or the scene in Barrayar in which Cordelia presents the results of her Shopping Trip.