Yay! Someone else who has read the Black Company. Must say I have not liked the newest additions to the series as much as the old, but it is still the world, still quality, and still (mostly) the characters. I think he might have lost the thread or jumped to an alternate world or something, though.
Lackey is easier and faster to read than most of what I like, but the concepts are good. There was a period where (the owl books among others) where there was a fair abrupt drop in how much I liked them. I think the workshare in the writing team changed or something - the things she's done more recently have been more like what I remember. She did a trilogy with James Mallory recently that ate my brain for a day and a halfish.
Tolkien is lovely - and there are things he is one of the only authors I have read that he did right that I wish to do similarly right. Not an idol or a model to emulate, exactly, but definitely lessons learned and things to aspire to. He's one of the reasons I'm working on the languages of the world my fantasy style tales are written in. (Then again, I'm also just fascinated by languages and language, so I may well have done it anyway, even if I'd never read his books.)
The name Robin Hobb sounds vaguely familiar, although I do not recall if that is someone I tried to read and could not, or if it is in the large file of authors to look into when I have the time.
Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust - child at the time. He's done a lot of peace work, taught for a time at BU (I still wish I could have taken classes with him.) "Night" was the first of his I had read. He has quite a catalog, pieces of it dealing with the nature and effect and interpretation of God.
I do realize the bible has to be interpreted, and my urge to hack at in was motivated by a desire to take out that which does not have a context, or not a direct context in the present times, and to try to ameliorate some of the known translation errors that have become fact over time. Fact due to time read? If that makes any sense. The passages I was referring to were ones I was beaten to the rhythm of as a child, even though I'd read them, and knew the secondary statements. "Children obey your parents for this is right." ........ "Parents do not provoke your children...." "Wives honor and obey your husband..." .... "Husbands, care for your wives, your authority is not to be a foot on their necks."
Paraphrased, yes, but that is the sort of pick and choose that angers me about so many "Christians."
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Date: 2007-07-22 11:13 pm (UTC)Lackey is easier and faster to read than most of what I like, but the concepts are good. There was a period where (the owl books among others) where there was a fair abrupt drop in how much I liked them. I think the workshare in the writing team changed or something - the things she's done more recently have been more like what I remember. She did a trilogy with James Mallory recently that ate my brain for a day and a halfish.
Tolkien is lovely - and there are things he is one of the only authors I have read that he did right that I wish to do similarly right. Not an idol or a model to emulate, exactly, but definitely lessons learned and things to aspire to. He's one of the reasons I'm working on the languages of the world my fantasy style tales are written in. (Then again, I'm also just fascinated by languages and language, so I may well have done it anyway, even if I'd never read his books.)
The name Robin Hobb sounds vaguely familiar, although I do not recall if that is someone I tried to read and could not, or if it is in the large file of authors to look into when I have the time.
Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust - child at the time. He's done a lot of peace work, taught for a time at BU (I still wish I could have taken classes with him.) "Night" was the first of his I had read. He has quite a catalog, pieces of it dealing with the nature and effect and interpretation of God.
I do realize the bible has to be interpreted, and my urge to hack at in was motivated by a desire to take out that which does not have a context, or not a direct context in the present times, and to try to ameliorate some of the known translation errors that have become fact over time. Fact due to time read? If that makes any sense.
The passages I was referring to were ones I was beaten to the rhythm of as a child, even though I'd read them, and knew the secondary statements.
"Children obey your parents for this is right." ........ "Parents do not provoke your children...."
"Wives honor and obey your husband..." .... "Husbands, care for your wives, your authority is not to be a foot on their necks."
Paraphrased, yes, but that is the sort of pick and choose that angers me about so many "Christians."