Oh, yeah, the number of the beast...it's in my address, too. People laugh.

Tepper and I are kind of both in the feminist-environmentalist-leftist area of the political map.

Yes, and this is what pisses me off. I hate it when people on my side make me want to be a dittohead.

I loved Tepper early on, too, and I too hate it when people I like and admire think I'm smoking the monkey crack while I read. Thanks, KB, for the recommendations to the other books. I shall check them out of the library post haste.

I found the religious stuff more unweildy in Pullman's stuff than in C. S. Lewis, but I read Lewis as a child, and, you know, he's on my side. *g*

Totally off-topic:

Is Face A or Face B a more appropriate writing goddess?

I am torn between the ecstatic and the contemplative.

Katerina, no, please don't take it as a diss on you.

I've tried four times to explain how my history affects my reading of her later work, and I'm not getting it down right. Maybe I'll try again later.

I think Face A, Betsy.

I think B, but it was close.

having been raised without religion. I was utterly amazed when I figured out how important church was to other people - I'd no clue

katerina Bee is me.

I like osme stuff by Tepper -- but DO NOT READ THE SLEEPING BEAUTY ONE. icky ,awful and just plain bad.

I read her as a book idea catches my eye -- sometime I find her books really annoying, but still find the basic idea interesting . and sometiems she is just wrong. I think Gate to womens's country was the first I read --which goave me the whole idea that she thinks women=good man= bad. but I think imissed that fact that she is very much only man/woman- which is odd ih herarea of writting. Anyway , I read her.

B, Betsy.

I was such a Tepper fan. I still love her earlier stuff. But then I started not to like her, and, as is my usual bent, assumed I'd slipped a couple IQ points down the scale, missed a meeting, in other words, that it was me not getting it that was the problem. Thanks for shoring up my self-image.

Note to self: work on that better perspective.

I read the Tepper Sleeping Beauty Book but so long ago I can't remember it.

I also read the book with the conjoined twins where the parents, wanting both a boy and a girl, get a sex change operation for one child.

FREAKY book.