Mary Stewart--along with Jane Aiken Hodge--rock.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Oct 26, 2005 4:50:15 am PDT #9341 of 10002
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Kathy A - Oct 26, 2005 7:11:06 am PDT #9342 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
One type of novel I used to really like (maybe due to the early exposure to Michener and Roots) was the centuries-long following of a family. My favorite in the subgenre was The Books of Rachel, by Joel Gross.
Aims - Oct 26, 2005 7:11:19 am PDT #9343 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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Have read damn near everything by VC Andrews. I own the entire Heaven series, and I am proud of it. I wrote my senior thesis on "her". My teacher said it was the best thesis on a non-existant author she had ever read.
Aims - Oct 26, 2005 7:12:18 am PDT #9344 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
ION, I have been completely transformed into Geekdom.
I am reading Ender's Game.
Susan W. - Oct 26, 2005 7:17:25 am PDT #9345 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
One type of novel I used to really like (maybe due to the early exposure to Michener and Roots) was the centuries-long following of a family. My favorite in the subgenre was The Books of Rachel, by Joel Gross.
Same here.
I miss those. I kinda want to write them.
Kathy A - Oct 26, 2005 7:26:26 am PDT #9346 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
They really are a great way to cover multiple places and times in history in one book. ...Rachel was fascinating for the Midwestern Catholic girl I am because it was all about the wealthy European Jewish experience (the family business was diamonds) from late medieval era to post-WWII.
Susan W. - Oct 26, 2005 7:31:19 am PDT #9347 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm not sure I'd want to do all of mine in one book--I can just see myself writing 20 books about the same family.
Unless I decide to write 20 books about the same characters.
Emily - Oct 26, 2005 9:52:30 am PDT #9348 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I read one of those... I think it might have been Sarum, and it covered about... now that I think about it, I'm not sure. A few thousand years, I guess, of an area around Stonehenge (I think). I had trouble with it, though, because I kept wanting characters to reappear, which, obviously... not.
Fred Pete - Oct 26, 2005 9:53:54 am PDT #9349 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I've read that too, Emily. Rutherfurd does the same thing in London, and there's a connection between the books (the Barnikel family).
Jessica - Oct 26, 2005 9:58:28 am PDT #9350 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I loved Sarum, but was bored stiff by London. I think mostly because that was the order I read them in, and they're very similar.