[bookshare-discuss] Re: Fantasy book club
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: vapour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:54:44 -0400
Hi all,
Well, check with Pat Price as she has the schedule for the room and
all. I suppose if we have to read Pratchett we could, but might I plea
for adding Richard Adams, Terry Goodkind and Garth Nix? There are also
some little known ones like Barrons, and Devakarroony. Of course if
you plan to talk about fantasy, that's a huge genre and started back in
the days of the cavemen. You could add all the folktales and all the
myths and all the heroic sagas from Homer to Njal Saga to the epic of
Gilgamesh. It's a huge genre, huge! Don't get fooled by just the
modern versions. I think that fantasy is one of the healthiest ways
for humans to express frustration, seek to know the heights and depths
of human behavior and much more!
When are you having this club, Vapor? I'd love to come! We certainly
don't need to read Rowling, but there are common elements of her work
that are in the works of other authors. Case and point, the scene at
the end of Book IV is taken directly from the Welsh Mabynogian (sp) and
is echoed by Lloyd Alexander in The Black Caldron. Yes, mustn't
forget Alexander.
Griefus, what a huge genre, what about all the animal tales, everything
from Brar Rabit to Watership Down to Andre Norton's Breed to Com.
(Well, that's sort of Science Fiction, but hmmmm, kind of in the middle.)
Ho, don't get me started now, or I'll be typing all night! So, when
you starting this? Please don't make it Monday nights, anything but
Monday or Wednesday.
Ann P.
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Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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