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[blades_of_grass]

Meme from harborshore (via egelantier) to start the morning:

look at the list below. these are the books that someone found valuable. bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you started or have read bits of, italicize the ones you want to read. add your own five books and pass it along

1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
2. Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
4. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
5. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
6. A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian
7. Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
8. Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren [had read almost every other book by her, but this one and The Lionheart Brothers]
9. Earthsea series by Ursula K. LeGuin [was my favourite author until I stumbled upon and on the Omelas short story, after which I get a sort-of-PTSD when I think of reading a new story and a total aversion to re-reading those I know do not have anything remotely similar, which is very sad, because of the Left Hand of Darkness]
10. Women and Apple Trees by Moa Martinsson
11. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
12. Here Comes the Messiah! by Dina Rubina
13. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
14. Nation by Terry Pratchett [not my favourite book of his, but any Pratchett book is a candidate for re-reading]
15. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon [funny, but cannot make myself finish this one, though I love his more recent books]
16. No by Linor Goralik and Sergey Kuznetzov
17. Sandma" by Neil Gaiman
18. The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
19. Vorkosigan series by L.M. Bujold
20. Six Moons Dance by Sheri Tepper

take it up and add your books!

Comments

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

can you share something about sheri tepper? i have 'grass' somewhere on the to-read list, but i know virtually nothing about her.

funnily, i adore kay, but i didn't manage to get even through first fionavar book. it's such a painfully 'look at my first book!!!' getting-into-another-world book, i'm hard-pressed same person wrote 'lions of al-rassan'.

[blades-of-grass.livejournal.com]

Tepper is an ecofeminist maverick :) Her books are very imaginative on many levels - from ethics to ecosystems. Also very mature which is not surprising since she is 81. Also non-judgmental - not sure if this is a correct description, but there is no nudging the reader to hate this character or love that one. It is as if they all, even the most horrifically screwed ones - and there is a lot of those in her books - are just that: characters. All have their roles in the story, so how can they be wished out of it? Not sure I make sense here. Anyway, I think her books are very good - a good read and a good story and a lot of thought behind both. Six Moons Dance and Singer From the Sea are my favourites, though. Did not read Grass :(

Fionavar is a first book, yes, but I find I prefer the raw emotions, the sheer drive to write to the later, more professional books. In an interesting counterpoint the world and the story are carefully constructed as opposites to the Tolkien-inspired style of high fantasy: the very pagan world with a lot of possibilities for hubris and forgiveness (which are almost totally absent in LOTR) and a story of people as opposed to the exposition of a world.

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

thank you! i'm looking forward to getting to her now.

and we'll have to agree to disagree on fionavar; possibly because pagan worlds never did much for me? i found the world lacking and the characters spread too thin. overall what i love about his writing is the ability to write high style fantasy without sacrificing the characters (oh, lions of al-rassan, oh).

'no' i once recced to my mother and she disapproved so, so hard :D

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

(completely offtopically: dsudis writes incredibly kickass bujold fics).

[blades-of-grass.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'll check them out for sure.

[elvit.livejournal.com]

Непонятный список...

[blades-of-grass.livejournal.com]

Это список книг, которые кто-то захотел внести в этот список. Вкусовщина, причем без ранжирования :)

[elvit.livejournal.com]

Да, я прочла пояснения. Еще удивилась, зачем переводить на английский, если в нем есть русские книги (неужели Горалик знают на западе?).

[blades-of-grass.livejournal.com]

А вот пусть поинтересуются :) А на английском потому, что изначальный моб на нем.

[elvit.livejournal.com]

:)

*задумалась, а не скачать ли Горалик*

[blades-of-grass.livejournal.com]

По-моему, скачать. Стереть-то всегда можно. Адити вот я посоветовал в свое время, была довольна.

А стихи и другая проза Горалик тебе нравятся?

[elvit.livejournal.com]

Да я ее вообще ни разу не читала, только слышала от других. :)))