Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
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superhero_musesList three books you've read more than three times.
I like this question a lot because it's basically not what do you admire (I have a lot of writers I admire greatly but wouldn't want to read their work over and over particularly) but what do you enjoy, what gets you excited.
Off the top of my head: The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison, The Silmarillion by Tolkien, and The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay. The first two especially because they're dense and lush and it took at least three readings to even figure out what's going on, the last because it's my favorite take on the Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot triangle ever AND it always makes me cry in the best of ways. What comes to the top of your mind? Guilty pleasures very much welcome!
As for writing--not bad this week! Lots of plotting, a fair amount of progress. Probably didn't get a whole lot done objectively, but considering my time pressures I'm pleased I got as much as I did done.
I like this question a lot because it's basically not what do you admire (I have a lot of writers I admire greatly but wouldn't want to read their work over and over particularly) but what do you enjoy, what gets you excited.
Off the top of my head: The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison, The Silmarillion by Tolkien, and The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay. The first two especially because they're dense and lush and it took at least three readings to even figure out what's going on, the last because it's my favorite take on the Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot triangle ever AND it always makes me cry in the best of ways. What comes to the top of your mind? Guilty pleasures very much welcome!
As for writing--not bad this week! Lots of plotting, a fair amount of progress. Probably didn't get a whole lot done objectively, but considering my time pressures I'm pleased I got as much as I did done.
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Date: 2014-06-14 09:31 am (UTC)Oh, we always remember those books so very fondly, don't we? For me it was Marion Zimmer Bradley's books--although I was just reminded this week about her horrific personal life and thus why I can never enjoy her books fully again, they were a window to a totally different way of looking at the world. Heinlein provided that too. My small town library was incredibly important to me growing up...