I just sent my parents a 12 LED lantern for hurricane season in Florida. They like it, it's got a dimmer and runs on 4D batts. It was 20 bucks at overstock.com, sigman's post here at CPF turned me onto it.
However, when I go camping, I hang an Ultra-G from the tent for light inside, use a VIP to walk around, my wife likes her Petzl Tikka headlamp for everything from reading to bathroom, I put an Opalec-Mag on the table, but my cousin brings out his propane lantern iand it rocks.
As to fluorescents, Energizer makes two folding lanterns, one that runsof 4 Ds and one that runs on AAs or AAAs.
welcome again,
daloosh