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lirazel ([personal profile] lirazel) wrote2012-04-12 10:47 am
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I want to post and talk about things, but I have nothing to talk about. Ask me things, please. Fandom-y things, not fandom-y things, whatever. And I will talk about them.

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[identity profile] ceciliaj.livejournal.com 2012-04-12 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Top 5 (or 3, or whatever) works of U.S. Literature.

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2012-04-12 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
OOOOOOOOOOH. I imposed a "this cannot be an all-Faulkner list" rule on myself. Otherwise all three of them would have been Faulkner. I am who I am.

1. Absalom, Absalom!
2. Kindred by Octavia Butler
3. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. LeGuin

[identity profile] ceciliaj.livejournal.com 2012-04-12 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice. Hey one follow-up, who is your favorite poet?
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[personal profile] snickfic 2012-04-12 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Representative poem?

I haven't read nearly as much of him as I'd like, but I have "Hymn to God My God in My Sickness" memorized because I love the language and the sentiments expressed.

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2012-04-12 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Holy Sonnets." Here's my favorite: 14.

Also, for sheer sassiness: The Flea.

And I still think Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed is one of the sexiest things ever written.

I loooove "Hymn to God My God in My Sickness."
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[personal profile] snickfic 2012-04-12 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Omelas" is pretty much the reason I read Le Guin - it was in our lit book in college, and it blew me away. So I read everything by her now. (Finally made it through A Wizard of Earthsea, and will probably pick up the second in the series soon.)

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2012-04-12 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I love her so much. The Earthsea books are so beautiful--they're slow, but I love the atmosphere they create. And I love how much I dislike Ged at the beginning of the first book and how I come to love him.

Have you read The Left Hand of Darkness? I've started it, but haven't really gotten into it yet.
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[personal profile] snickfic 2012-04-12 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha ha - Left Hand is one of those books that, ten years ago, I decided I wasn't old enough for yet. I believe fandom has since cured me, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. It's on the list, though!

Actually, I love certain of her short stories more than I love any of her novels (although I always at least enjoy the novels).

It occurs to me that you might be interested in Lavinia, about the woman Aeneus married in The Aenid? It's partly one of those "the woman's perspective" stories, but it also involves a fascinating dream-relationship between Lavinia and Virgil himself. I think the combination of female-centric story and meta-story might intrigue you.

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2012-04-12 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
From what little I've read, it's pretty dense. I think it'll take me some time to wade through it.

Yeah, I don't tend to be a short story fan, but I love hers. She's on the shortlist of writers whose short stories I always love.

That sounds interesting! I haven't read that one yet, but I'll add it to my list!
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