Member: MonkeyArcher

You have a copy of Songs for Swinging Housemothers. I can't tell you how amused it makes me to see that. My copy was a gift from an old friend. And you look like a comic book collector as well. *grin*

posted by aliskye at 12:00 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2007

I had no idea there was anyone else with Erik Andresen's comic art! I can only assume you're a Wildcat, too!

posted by ruthkneale at 12:26 am (EST) on Feb 2, 2007

I have two copies of Tea With the Black Dragon, which should indicate how much I like it. She's one of my favourite authors and Tea and its sequel, along with the Damiano trilogy, are my favourites of all her books.

posted by Amiziras at 2:22 am (EST) on Sep 5, 2006

That musical number sounds great. Lee was perfectly cast in 'Gormenghast', and since the character he played is one of my favourites I was pleased that they didn't screw up the casting.

I don't know why people wouldn't have heard of Andre Norton although perhaps it depends on what you mean by 'people'. I always thought of her as an author for girls who don't like girls' fiction, if that makes any sense. I don't know if she was someone likely to be read by boys. I didn't know anyone else who read her books, although it's possible that my father did. I found a lot of books through Dad.

posted by Amiziras at 7:34 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2006

You and I have very different taste in fiction so I would hesitate to rec anything to you, but I love the Gormenghast novels and everything else by Peake (of which there isn't much). I know that some people hate the series. It's very dense, very grotesque, and the third volume was never properly finished. It should have been a longer series but the encephalitis he'd contracted as an infant emerged into the kind of Parkinsonian symptoms Sacks' described in 'Awakenings' and he was no longer able to write or draw much. So the books are like a crumbling and incomplete monument. I take it you didn't see the tv series with Christopher Lee et al?

I liked Andre Norton when I was a kid, but although I continued to buy the occasional book over the years I found that she no longer had much to offer me. It's odd that she would have fallen into obscurity since she continued to write and collaborate up until her death and has been hugely influential (not always in a good way).

I'll friend you with the other journal. It's possible that I may come to spend more time there as the months pass.

posted by Amiziras at 5:12 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2006

Hello dear!!! I am going to look through your library and see if there are any books I should get for myself. :)

posted by malakhai at 4:03 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2006