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11-12-2009, 05:39 PM | #1067 |
fides quaerens intellectum
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11-12-2009, 05:48 PM | #1068 |
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11-12-2009, 06:03 PM | #1069 |
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I've never read them. I don't read fantasy at all. The last fantasy I read was by assignment in 8th grade. Only rarely do I even watch a fantasy or sci-fi movie.
My understanding of them is that they're unapologetically anti-organized religion. My own feelings on that, as I'm sure you know, are to the contrary. If I was going to read a fantasy series, I'd probably skip Pullman and start with Tolkien or Lewis. I do enjoy C.S. Lewis' religious works, especially The Great Divorce. |
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11-12-2009, 07:28 PM | #1070 | |
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11-12-2009, 08:06 PM | #1071 |
You don't faze me, Gobble.
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11-12-2009, 08:07 PM | #1072 |
In Search of a Life
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Heh. You are hot on the YA trends these days. Book Thief is awesome. Since you know YA Lit, you might or might not have heard of Chris Crutcher (wrote Whale Talk, the Sledding Hill, Staying Fat for Sarah Burns, Deadline, etc.. etc..If you haven't read him, check him out). Anyway, I got to spend last weekend hanging out with him at a conference, and I do mean hanging out. Friend of a friend, so we were out pretty late night at the bars. Great guy. Lots of fun.
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11-12-2009, 08:10 PM | #1073 | |
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11-12-2009, 08:13 PM | #1074 | |
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The guy actually ended up being the coach in Whale Talk. |
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11-12-2009, 08:16 PM | #1075 | |
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Solid. Makes me wanna read him just based on that. |
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11-12-2009, 08:19 PM | #1076 |
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He's a solid writer. Worked in abuse and neglect therapy in Oakland for years and saw some pretty heavy shit. Alot of those stories make it into his work (which is actually pretty funny, but can also be heart breaking). If you ever get a chance to hear him speak, do it. He's an amazing speaker and storyteller. He's also a fierce, fierce free speech advocate. His books tend to get banned a lot, so he does a lot of advocacy work on behalf of banned books.
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11-12-2009, 08:20 PM | #1077 |
remember, remember
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not really high brow, but going through the dresden files again (jim butcher)--brilliant prose.
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11-12-2009, 08:21 PM | #1078 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
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11-12-2009, 08:22 PM | #1079 |
You don't faze me, Gobble.
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11-12-2009, 08:23 PM | #1080 |
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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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