(Fwd) Re: Sinister: Bookness

[WeeJay]

Oops, I sent this to JJ by mistake.


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To:             	johnj at seahouses.u-net.com
Subject:        	Re: Sinister:  Bookness
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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...

	Sarnies!?! They're butties and you know it. Pah, home 
counties boys! I'd send Brad around to whip your pasty hide if it 
wasn't for the fact that I'd have to actually meet him and therefore 
fall under his bad influence again. And yes, that's my staple diet at 
uni too, as opposed to home where I'm nearly a vegetarian.

This must be my first re: message. Yeay!

	Choccaboy checking out,
			WeeJay xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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