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[penguinfaery]

I'm doing series and you can't stop me.

4- Harry Potter is of course on the brain now. Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite. As Sirius is my favorite. But I do love those books. The first two I do see as kids books, it itsn't until 3 that shit starts gettin' real. And I do think they feel apart a bit at the end. But I still love them dearly.

3- American Gods- I love Neil Gaiman. This book is my favorite though, I love the characters, the take on mythology, and epic road tripness of it. How much everything comes together. It is just such a good, solid, interesting book. A lot of Gaiman's stuff I am like "I love this, but this..." There are no buts for American Gods.

2- Wasteland- Again I love everything about Franceca Lia Block, and I don't think this book is even my most favorite of hers. I know it's not. But this is just sch a beautiful little book. Grab it some time, you'll read it in an afternoon. It is about a boy trying to comfort the girl he is in love with because her brother killed himself due to his incestuous feeling for the girl. It is so real, and at the same time has that delicate magical feeling of all of francesca lia block writing:

Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.

1- The Dark Tower. WHO SAW THAT COMING?! I love this series.It has slow parts (Like...book 3.) But I love the character, I love the world, I even love the ending. I love all the books tied in (Particularly the Talisman/Black House) because I love the who...the whole idea of everything being this web, and everything effecting everything. It is also the one series, if it turned out to be true, I would not blink.

I do believe in paralleled universes, and that...not every fictional stories, but the strong ones, the ones that really speak to us...come from somewhere. That somewhere, there is a Harry Potter battling Voldemort, and somewhere Frodo is taking the Ring to Mordor, and somewhere all these thinks are so real to us because they are to someone. But the Dark Tower...I feel like THAT world could be right next door, or just a few over. If Harry Potter showed up in my living room doing magic I would be more then a little shocked. If Jake Chambers did...less so.

Comments

[cloudyskies2046.livejournal.com]

Yes! I love this last paragraph so much. I also firmly believe that things are real to us because they are real to someone. I once read a passage in The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan that gave me a light bulb moment about this. He was describing ancient mammals and our ancestors and how REM sleep was both deadly (we don't wake when a predator is near) and key to our survival (it sorts information so we can store more).

I have been wondering forever how people are able to dream of things they have never seen before. Things that come completely out of nowhere, not one thing leading to another. I also would totally not be surprised if we have hidden in our brains some form of connected consciousness and understood history from which creators draw their muses. Idk it's interesting.

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[amigoid.livejournal.com]

4. Left Behind. This series was so successful in Christian circles it spawned a "Left Behind - the Kids" which we read the whole series aloud to our boys. A life-memory, I think. How many parents read to their kids growing up, not once, but a whole series. I think thats important. Its an interesting read even if you are not a Christian, in how people deal with all the apocalyptic disasters and dramas that occur.

3. The Wheel of a Fast Car - W.E. Butterworth Read it in Junior High and loved the characters and detail so much that I hunted down a copy in my 30's and added it to my library.

2. Watchmen. Yes, its a Graphic Novel, but...

1. Shogun. I have read that book several times. I'm due to read it again.

Side-note. I agree wholeheartedly, and since we are both authors, I would someday hope to meet my characters.