Oops, I sent this to JJ by mistake. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Self <Single-user mode> To: johnj@seahouses.u-net.com Subject: Re: Sinister: Bookness Send reply to: V0168JE2@solent.ac.uk Date sent: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 16:28:09 -0000 JJ wrote:
Mick McMick wrote:
Ursula K. Leguin (though I can't remember a stitch of A Wrinkle in Time for the life of me) and especially yes to Frank Herbert. Right now, I'm reading his Children of Dune Doh! A Wrinkle In Time, 'Mick', was of course written by Madeline L'Engle although I may have spelt her name incorrectly..I haven't looked for a webpage about her yet because it's early in the morning, but that was ALSO a good book as was it's sequel..
This hasn't anthing to do with that, but it's the closest quote I can be bothered to find... Anyway, whoever said that Ursula Leguin's adult fiction wasn't any good was wrong, wrong, wrong, as wrong as can be! The Lathe of Heaven has to be one of the most inspirational things I've ever read - It's about this man who when he goes to sleep has strange dreams, then when he wakes up the world has changed to fit in with his dreams, and only he knows that it's ever been different. He goes to a psyciatrist who is sceptical at first, but then realises it's true, and abuses it by hypnotising him to make him dream of a world that embodies the psyciatrist's pretty dodgy futurist ideas. I'm not saying any more as I don't want to spoil it, but WOW! it's really reccomended. And I briefly said that my favorite CS book was 'The Horse and His Boy' with no explanation. Well, here goes - I liked the whole series, but it alweays struck me as a little unimaginative in a way, in that it had all the usual animals you can see in that kind of thing. But in THAHB insead of some children coming into it, yyou have the whole thing set within that world and you get to see a much more interesting bit of it. I used that quote from JJ cos he also said:
The Dune series, however, what a load of pretentious wank. I could be wrong about those, after all they are dreadfully popular. I bought 4 of them before I realised that it wasn't me, it was the books that were crap.
I have tried in vain several times to read 'Dune' but it really escapes me. It's like some civil service document in that you get the impression that the author wants you to only understand half of what he's saying. To read it, it seems, you need to understand his fictional universe in the first place, and to do that of course, you need to read the books. I don't know, I'll get back to Zola instead.
Have a lovely weekend, it's time for BACON sarnies now...
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