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anamithim
Unregistered User
(2/3/05 10:47 pm)
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deLint
what about angel of darkness, from a whisper to a scream, the harp of the grey rose, spirits in the wires, and faerielands: the wild wood? sorry for the long list, but if you have read them can you tell me if theyre good or not?
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janeyolen
Registered User
(2/4/05 2:24 am)
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Re: deLint books
You may be jealous of my many bookshelves, but actually I need more!
(Or maybe I need to cull and organize more.)
Jane
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Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(2/4/05 9:40 am)
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Re: deLint books
You might consider one of de Lint's newest books, Blue Girl, since it mentions the SurLaLune board a few times by name. Makes life a little more interesting that way...
(You can see what I mean by searching for SurLaLune inside the book on Amazon although I'm not sure why they are listing the book as "not yet released." Blue Girl ships in 24 hours on Barnes and Noble. Looks like a computer glitch.)
Thanks for the heads up, Tara!
Heidi
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Black Sheep
Registered User
(2/4/05 3:59 pm)
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Re: deLint books
I agree with Redtriskell that De Lint's best book is "Memory and Dream" but my personal favourite is "Moonheart".
Would the uppity medieval women include the letters of the women of the Paston family and Margery Kempe the excellently bonkers East Anglian woman who went on a pilgrimmage and insisted on a priest writing her autobiography?
www.lib.rochester.edu/cam...menbib.htm
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Erica Carlson
Registered User
(2/4/05 4:04 pm)
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Re: deLint books
I enjoyed Spirits in the Wires, but I think my favorites
are still Onion Girl and the Jack the Giant Killer books
that you can now find reprinted in Jack of Kinrowan. You
might want to read some of the Newford short stories before reading
Onion Girl. It's a stand-alone novel, but more fun if you
know the characters a bit. And you probably have already found this,
but it can be fun to poke around the Charles
de Lint Homepage
--Erica
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Anansia
Registered User
(2/6/05 6:48 pm)
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Re: Any Great Books to recommend?
I have a related question - any great book discussion boards to recommend, (other than this one of course) for fantasy novels? The fan sites I find on searches seem a bit focussed on which Hollywood actors fans would like to see playing the lead roles, (groan!) but I'd love to know of sites that have the same kinds of thoughtful & provacative discussions I find on SurLaLune.
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Black Sheep
Registered User
(2/7/05 11:40 am)
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Fora? Forums?
There seem to be plenty of intelligent online discussions of SF but sadly not of fantasy. Perhaps they're all in Spanish discussing magical realism? (Or "fantasy with tildes" as it's sometimes called). Sur La Lune seems to me to be unique (thank you Heidi!). You could try the fantasy forum at sffworld Anansia:
www.sffworld.com/forums/
Unless you want to find a moribund forum, get a few of your friends together, and revive it... it takes work but eventually others with similar interests would find you.
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Jess
Unregistered User
(2/7/05 2:39 pm)
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some more mundane classics
Have you read Once and Future King? Lord of the Rings? The Dark is Rising series? Calvino's Italian Fairy Tales? Zipes collections of French Literary Fairy Tales (Beauty and the Beast and other stories) and Grimms Fairy Tales? Jane Yolen's "Mirror, Mirror"? Hadaway's collection of Tales of the Arabian Nights?
I had assumed that you have read these, but if you haven't, you should.
Jess
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gigi
Unregistered User
(2/7/05 3:19 pm)
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thx
Wow! My one little itty-bitty question generated tons and scads of books. I will look in to the last comment by Jess right away though as they have been recommended by my friends too. :)
Although This Charles De lint sounds quite interesting. What are his books like?
Sad, satirical, empowering? Just broad stroke of the paint brush please (when describing)
Ps
Jane, I think that your houses must be the best ever. If you ever think of selling one I wouldn't mind cold weather property. ;)
Let me express my unsurprised-ness (new word, Call webster!) at your needing more bookshelves. I fyou have that many of course you are going to need more.
Maybe you should start a lending library. (haha)
gigi :D
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Anansia
Registered User
(2/7/05 3:27 pm)
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Re: Fora? Forums?
Thanks for that Black sheep, I will check it out.
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janeyolen
Registered User
(2/8/05 3:54 am)
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Re: Fora? Forums?
Gigi--our three kids would kill us if we sold either of the houses. And of course, if they killed us, they would inherit, so there's no hope for you, I'm afraid.
Jane
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gigi
Unregistered User
(2/8/05 8:12 am)
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Oh!
To Jane: Rats! :(
Well then don't sell the houses but if They ever want to ...
(Can't stop me from dreaming.)
gigi :rollin
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Celticwarrior
Registered User
(2/9/05 1:04 pm)
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Re: Any Great Books to recommend?
Hello everyone!
I have been reading alot of books about Celtic and Medieval history. I always get them from the library most of the time. Right now, I'm reading the book called "Merlin" written by the author named Norma Lorre Goodrich. Also, author of King Arthur. It is really great to know about this history. It is very fantastic history! There were two different Merlin that do lived in England and Scotland. Also, I read other book called the King of the Celts and The Britons. I lost those two books.:-(( It was belong to the public Library. I love to read all of these books. Well, my grandfather came from Wales. Of course, I'm little Welsh and Irish. My name also Irish as common name. My name is Darin. I always love medieval and Magical stuff like that. I always read and learn about them. If you would like to share our experience about the books, I would be glad to help you out! Drop me a line! Thanks!
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gigi
Unregistered User
(2/9/05 3:22 pm)
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Hey
Hi Darin! Cute name.
you know at babynames.com
it means.
DARIN
Gender: Male
Meaning: Precious Present
Origin: Celtic/Gaelic
I share your interest too except I am not so well read.
gigi :rollin
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youngbum
Unregistered User
(2/18/05 6:58 pm)
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Re:gigi
Hey, I have one. It's my favorite. "Castle Rougena" or something to that effect. It drives me up a wall that i can't recall the name properly or who the author is, but i do remember what it's about. Only read this though it you like; love/action/humor/magical/fantacy books.
It has a half built castle and a centar on the cover and it's pretty old. About a young man in a world of magic with his special and defining ability to give anaminmate objects a speaking mind of their own. He travels back in time to get an elixer-type thing to bring back his beloved nanny-type lady's boyfriend. It's been a while and I was only able to read it once. but i hope it's what u r lookn for. :\
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Helen J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(2/18/05 7:10 pm)
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Re: Re:gigi
I think that you might be referring to a Piers Anthony book titled Castle Roogna ...
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Celticwarrior
Registered User
(2/26/05 10:09 am)
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Re: Hey
Thank you for your comment! I really do appreciated it. Well, I do not know that you knew my name? Well, actually nothing can be true to identify me. Because you are now unregister.
Edited by: Celticwarrior at: 2/26/05 10:13 am
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darklingthrush
Registered User
(2/26/05 10:25 am)
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ack
Hmm It's nice to see so many of my favorites authored already mentioned here. So I have to second anything by Patricia McKillip. I've just been rereading The Changeling Sea. I adore Charles de Lint's books and recommend them over and over at the brick and mortar where I work. I recently highly recommended the Jack books by him to a young customer and would gladly do the same for anyone (although I find myself loving his short stories best.) Robin McKinley here here (include Tanith Lee in that as well). I've recently purchased Theodora Goss's chapbook A Rose in Twelve Petals and cannot stop rereading it. I've finally as an adult discovered Diana Wynne Jones and would recommend everyone to read Howl's Moving Castle especially in anticipation of Miyazaki's film interpretation of it. Finally I recently purchased a used copy of Greer Gilman's Moonwise and find myself enchanted by her twisting melodic prose and equally winding, circular enchanting plot.
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