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Zoe
Garnet
Registered User
(6/3/03 10:38 pm)
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Heroine's Journey
Hi there!
Nice place!
Has anyone here heard of The Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock? It was recently recommended to me and I was wondering what others thought of it.
Best regards,
Zoe
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Mary
Unregistered User
(6/6/03 6:49 pm)
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read it
I was not impressed by it.
For one thing, she maintained that it was drastically different from the Campbell's Hero's Journey -- which is not true at all. It was a special case, and this was not helped by her declaration that the heroine was on a hero's journey because she was earning doctorates or professional success, when it was pretty clear that this was the Ordinary World for these women.
Have you read _The Writer's Journey_?
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Morgana
le fay
Registered User
(6/7/03 1:05 pm)
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Re: read it
I haven't read that, but i would recommend a book called "The Tower Room". It's very loosely based on Rapunzel. It's and incredibly well written and rather odd book. Worth reading though. "Shiva's Fire" is another good one. Sorry I can't help much!
PS. Does anyone know of any good fantasy books? After reading Lord
of the Rings 17 times in 2 years, it does get somewhat tedious.
Best book in the world, though. Ever. Ever ever ever!!!
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Mary
Unregistered User
(6/9/03 5:43 pm)
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Good Fantasy Novels
Oh, here's a handful:
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Witch World by Andre Norton
The Year of the Unicorn by Andre Norton
Beauty by Robin McKinley
The Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin -- but not the later Earthsea books
RiddleMaster of Hed, The Heir of Sea and Fire, The Harpist in the Wind by Patricia McKillip
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Elizabeth
Registered User
(6/10/03 2:14 pm)
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fantasy books
Wow, what a big question. You'll probably get a bunch of different answers, of course. Lately I've been "kicking it old skool" by trying to track down as many of these that I can:
home.epix.net/~wallison/bafs.html
A lot of these are out of print, but many aren't. The Ballantine Adult Fantasy series was very influential in its day -- many of these are considered to be classics and I've heard more than a few of my favorite fantasy writers say they were influenced by the books here.
You might also want to check out the works of my favorite favorite, Charles de Lint:
www.sfsite.com/charlesdelint/
That ought to keep you busy for a while.
xo,
Elizabeth
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judithwq
Registered User
(6/10/03 4:38 pm)
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fantasy books
Coming from also having re-read LTR many times, I have read equally as many times Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters Trilogy, the first book being Daughter of the Forest. It is a retelling of the Eliza and the Swans fairy tale, where brothers get turned into swans and she breaks the enchantment by weaving and spinning shirts of nettles for them while maintaining silence all the while.
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Morgana
le fay
Registered User
(6/12/03 10:14 am)
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Re: fantasy books
wheeeeeeee! ooh. I saw that book in Waterstone's the other day! I take it it's good then?
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Rosemary
Lake
Registered User
(6/15/03 6:11 pm)
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Re: fantasy books
My favorites were in a series edited by Lin Carter iirc, in response to the popularity of Tolkien. E. R. Eddison, William Morris, the other Oz books....
Charles Williams, a friend of Tolkien and Lewis, wrote some wonderful books that might now be called 'magical realism' except that the mythos is Church of England. :-)
Also I like Xanth.
Rosemary
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denag
Registered User
(6/16/03 3:12 am)
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fantasy
whenever i get to the end of the narnia series, after a period of misery that they're over, i cheer myself up by diving into Tamora Pierce's books. Particularly the Song of the Lioness series (starting with Alanna: The First Adventure).
i haven't read Lord of the Rings yet!!!!! i have no idea why this is - i've read everything else that keeps still long enough. but i have bought it, and the silmarillion. They are waiting till my reading pile shrinks a bit.
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