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.
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Kathy A - Oct 26, 2005 7:11:06 am PDT #9342 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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.
Nutty - Oct 26, 2005 10:16:53 am PDT #9351 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I read about 100 pages of Sarum, and was still in the Stone Age. I put it down.
I will admit to having read War and Remembrance, however, which seems to me to be on the same "Oh, isn't it convenient that we had a family member at this amazing historical event!" level.