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Nalo
Registered User
(1/8/04 12:32 pm)
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Joan Aiken is gone
Joan Aiken passed away this week. There is an obituary at:
www.guardian.co.uk/print/...84,00.html
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Ktales
Registered User
(1/8/04 2:43 pm)
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Sad
That's terrible. I just got back from the library--I'm not even making this up--with four of her books, which I had a sudden, inexplicable need to re-read, and saw this posting.
Kate
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Mark
Unregistered User
(1/8/04 4:24 pm)
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That's a real shame
Another great novelist. There aren't many giants left.
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Charles Vess
Unregistered User
(1/8/04 8:09 pm)
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Damn...
Damn indeed! What a writer she was. I had the pleasure of painting a cover for an American edition of THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN not too long ago. It was a wonderful experience being paid, as it were, to read her lovely prose. Indeed, I lingered over the reading part so long that the deadline was hard to meet.
Regards,
Charles
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Anansia
Registered User
(2/1/04 11:48 pm)
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Re: Damn...
Oh no! I have been a fan of hers since discovering The Whispering Mountain in my 1st year of High School - 20 years ago. I've lost count of the numberof times I've read it. I've just recently been reading some of her books to my son, who's nine, & the pleasure never fades. Luckily I still have my old worn copies of some of her books as I haven't seen her in prit in Australia for many years.
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janeyolen
Registered User
(2/3/04 7:04 am)
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Re: Damn...
Joan Aiken was a wonderful novelist. A fine speaker, too. But I was hesitate to say there are few giants left, when we have Le Guin and Pullman, and Diana Wynne Jones and McKillip, and McKinley and...I could go on and on.
Jane Yolen
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Deborah O
Unregistered User
(2/16/04 11:32 pm)
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P.S. to previous comment:
...and Yolen...
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