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hummingwolf) wrote2003-07-02 10:41 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2003-07-02 10:41 pm
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Five books to show you who I am
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seraphimsigrist, who took the idea from lucretius:
If you could propose a reading list of about five books to a prospective friend, a date if you do that or whatever, so that they would know who you are...what books would you reccomend?
My response:
To begin with, the two authors I've read the most are C.S. Lewis and C.J. Cherryh (I've often thought that if I become a published writer, I must use my initials as they do; it helps that my first initial really is C.). Those two authors are certain, but which books specifically is a more difficult question. In the case of Lewis, good ones would be the novel Till We Have Faces (though I haven't had the chance to read it in years) or possibly Mere Christianity or... Oh! The Problem of Pain immediately followed by A Grief Observed, as I've long thought that those two should always be read together anyway.
For C.J. Cherryh, perhaps Cyteen, maybe Rusalka or something from the Foreigner/Invader/Inheritor books--honestly she and Lewis seem to capture some entirely different yet equally important parts of my psyche.
Other books for someone who wants to understand me are things I read over and over as a child: Lewis Carroll's Alice books, particularly the adventures Through the Looking Glass; a collection of Andersen's fairy tales; and a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poems.
seraphimsigrist, who took the idea from lucretius:If you could propose a reading list of about five books to a prospective friend, a date if you do that or whatever, so that they would know who you are...what books would you reccomend?
My response:
To begin with, the two authors I've read the most are C.S. Lewis and C.J. Cherryh (I've often thought that if I become a published writer, I must use my initials as they do; it helps that my first initial really is C.). Those two authors are certain, but which books specifically is a more difficult question. In the case of Lewis, good ones would be the novel Till We Have Faces (though I haven't had the chance to read it in years) or possibly Mere Christianity or... Oh! The Problem of Pain immediately followed by A Grief Observed, as I've long thought that those two should always be read together anyway.
For C.J. Cherryh, perhaps Cyteen, maybe Rusalka or something from the Foreigner/Invader/Inheritor books--honestly she and Lewis seem to capture some entirely different yet equally important parts of my psyche.
Other books for someone who wants to understand me are things I read over and over as a child: Lewis Carroll's Alice books, particularly the adventures Through the Looking Glass; a collection of Andersen's fairy tales; and a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poems.