Jen, while the first two books are arguably for children, they read as mythical and pain-filled and somehow very true in the same way that The Hobbit did for me. I'd be hard pressed to suggest something more worthy of reading.
My food is problematic.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 07, 2004 6:02:55 pm PST #8785 of 10000
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Consuela - Dec 07, 2004 6:06:47 pm PST #8786 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
they read as mythical and pain-filled and somehow very true in the same way that The Hobbit did for me.
In many ways, more so. What the protagonists do, in pride or ignorance, is far beyond any error Bilbo would ever make.
JenP - Dec 07, 2004 6:23:57 pm PST #8787 of 10000
I'd be hard pressed to suggest something more worthy of reading.
That's a rec I will take, then. I'm surprised I'd never heard of it, actually. (Edited to remove babbling. Sometimes I use too many words.)
Consuela - Dec 07, 2004 6:42:25 pm PST #8788 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, you've heard of LeGuin, I assume, yeah?
IIRC, one or more of the Earthsea novels won the Newberry award back in the early 70s.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2004 7:26:06 pm PST #8789 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Consuela - Dec 07, 2004 7:57:19 pm PST #8790 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Point taken. But they're still wrong as a wrong thing. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
My god, these girls have barrettes! t flails in disgust
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2004 7:59:59 pm PST #8791 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't care what you dress Kristin Kreuk in -- she's going to ... god, she sounded awful.
Katie M - Dec 07, 2004 8:10:11 pm PST #8792 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
I never really loved Earthsea, so I don't have the kind of gut-level picture of it that I do of Tolkien, but I remember the Tombs of Atuan and man, I never pictured it as even vaguely faux-medieval. More... I dunno. Greek, if anything.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2004 8:12:41 pm PST #8793 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I do remember envisioning it as bare -- robes, not dresses, you know?
Consuela - Dec 07, 2004 8:34:16 pm PST #8794 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yup. Barefoot, desert, black robes, spare, ascetic. Withered trees and dust, and little oil lamps and wrinkled apples. Gruel and bread with grit in it.
Not veils and prissy dresses and candalabras. Bleah.