Just got done reading a little book by C. S. Lewis called The Great Divorce, an allegory of a trip from hell to heaven via a bus...I made a review in the Lewis forum. I have been reading a lot of fantasy lately...Donaldson's Mordant's Need, Hobb's Farseer Trilogy, and McKillip's Riddlemaster Trilogy. I think I am going to take a bit of a break and read a history book about an atrocity in the WW2 era, called The Rape of Nanking, and an anthology called Irish Girls About Town, short stories about Irish women, written by Irish women. Over a dozen Irish women writers got together and wrote stories for this anthology, and the proceeds go to charities. Saint Patrick's Day is coming up, and this might be a fun way to get into the proper frame of mind.
And by the way, I have tried four...count 'em...four books by Atwood, since so many people have told me what a great writer she is. The only one of the four I could stand was The Handmaid's Tale, and I found that one incredibly depressing...I can't even remember the titles of the other three, but they came together in an omnibus trade paperback. I think one of them might have been called something like Life Before Man, and was about a couple getting a divorce, and even knowing it was messing up their kids, they didn't stop their poor behavior.... One novel was told from the point of view of this crazy woman, whose father had drowned in a lake...all three of those books were supreme downers...this might sound harsh, but I just do not care for her writing. With so many writers I do like, and so many I have not tried but have heard good things about, I have no plans to try anymore of her books... ******************************************************
Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell <i>Edited by: Duchess of Malfi at: 2/20/04 8:09 pm </i>
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