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Joseph:
--- Quote from: instrumentals on 06 Jan 2009, 18:56 ---Pretty sure I have the most rag-tag list of anyone here:
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Pretty uncertain as to what you mean by this. I don't notice anything rag-tag about it.
Wyr:
I dont care if its been mentioned, it needs to be -forced- upon everyone. If you haven't read the entire five books of the ultimate trilogy, The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, then you do not deserve eyes.
And anyone who said Princess Bride needs to die. Slightly less painfully then the lying slumbich who wrote it. Editor indeed. Daring to trod across my fragile hopes with false rumours of a sequel. You lie! Lie!
Um, I've also recently enjoyed the harry dresden series.
Many of the classics are always good to make sure you've read.
Also, my second favorite book of all time, To Reign in Hell by steven brust.
The Stainless Steel Rat series, though the later books kinda trailed off as far as literary genius goes.
And surprisingly enough Piers Anthony made some books that i'd feel remiss for not shoving in people's faces. His political adult books, Bio of a Space Tyrant, and his religious books Incarnations of Immortality, especially the last two of that series.
evernew:
:-D :-D :-D WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE :-D :-D :-D
Lepre:
Well, I skimmed so if I repeat something I'm terribly sorry.
Descent Into Hell -- Charles Williams
A story of three characters and the interactions of their own personal narratives with each other, the community, and the spiritual world. One is a young acctress who's grandmother is dying, another is renowned military historian who's slowly rejecting the world and falling in love with his own fantasies, and the last is a dead man who died 400 years ago trying to decide between heaven and hell. Throughout it all there's the poet, Peter Stanhope, and his play that pulls the characters together.
It's odd, dense, and wonderful. Williams is able to do something extremely rare: portray good as good and evil as evil. He also shows the spiritual world as not above the world, but rather intermingled with it.
L'Morte D'arthur -- Thomas Malory
I don't think I really need to explain this one. King Arthur and the knights of the round table! Chivalry and honor, love and betrayal, drama and everything you could possibly want. Bigger than life, but still nice and real.
The Prelude -- William Wordsworth
Oh come on, he's Wordsworth! He's fun and full of life and energy--reading the Prelude makes you want to live the Prelude. His adventures are so real and so relateable and, on top of that, he presents good ideas too. Lewis said that once you read the philosophers you didn't bother with philosophical poets, except for Wordsworth. He's right.
Uber Ritter:
God I love Descent into Hell.
Williams was close friends with Tolkien and CS Lewis, and is often grouped with them due to shared religious convictions and an interest in the mythic, but he's a lot weirder than either of the others. In a continuum of fantastic literature, with Tolkien and High Fantasy on one end of the spectrum and Borges and other magical realists on the other, he's definitely closer to Borges.
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