Glen Cook rocks my socks....it is too bad i lost most of that series when my ex-fiance left me and we split up the books. mercedes lackey....is a guilty pleasure for me. she's brain popcorn...and unfortunately i don't even enjoy most of her later stuff because it all starts sounding the same and feeling preachy but with no new content. i liked her vanyel series and her stuff and her queens own stuff. my husband is exactly in your camp with that stuff though....i lean more toward tolkein and robin hobb for the philosophies i espouse.
i don't know elie wiesel. who is she?
you really have to watch out with the bible. i guess my perspective is that some of it is specifically for the time period in which it was written...and some of it needs to be heavily interpreted in light of context....but in my opinion, you have to be careful about ditching any of it altogether in order to avoid the very thing you just described - taking only the parts you like. i figure that burning witches and killing your children when they talk back is part of the time period and not something to be followed....but that doesn't mean we can't take messages like, "make sure that any magic you do is for God" or "parents need to take the behavior of their children and their responsibility toward them seriously" away from those passages. the bible HAS to be interpreted in order to be useful and faithful.
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Date: 2007-07-22 07:23 pm (UTC)mercedes lackey....is a guilty pleasure for me. she's brain popcorn...and unfortunately i don't even enjoy most of her later stuff because it all starts sounding the same and feeling preachy but with no new content. i liked her vanyel series and her stuff and her queens own stuff. my husband is exactly in your camp with that stuff though....i lean more toward tolkein and robin hobb for the philosophies i espouse.
i don't know elie wiesel. who is she?
you really have to watch out with the bible. i guess my perspective is that some of it is specifically for the time period in which it was written...and some of it needs to be heavily interpreted in light of context....but in my opinion, you have to be careful about ditching any of it altogether in order to avoid the very thing you just described - taking only the parts you like. i figure that burning witches and killing your children when they talk back is part of the time period and not something to be followed....but that doesn't mean we can't take messages like, "make sure that any magic you do is for God" or "parents need to take the behavior of their children and their responsibility toward them seriously" away from those passages. the bible HAS to be interpreted in order to be useful and faithful.