Ten Things I’ve Got that You Haven’t Got
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I’ve read “Turtle Moon”, and remember liking it a lot, but that’s all I remember. I also liked “Practical Magic”, not to be confused with the sub-par movie version.
The Kay books sounds promising, I’ll have to look for it.
I’ve not read the Celestine Prophesy, but recall the period when everyone seemed to be reading it–or at least, carrying it around.
Turtle Moon was about how everybody in this Southern town went crazy on the first full moon of spring. Crazy to the effect of “I will now sleep with this ugly dude”. I felt strangely compelled by it at the time, but I can’t quite say why now…
Celestine Prophesy was kind of like Da Vinci Code in its page-turney-ness and oversimplified profundity, except it was New Age profundity rather than Western secret history profundity, and it was a lot more earnest about trying to convert you to its belief system. I think I actually bought into it for a bout a week.
And Susan Kay is indeed great.
very cool list. i’ve never read Faerie Queen, but back in high school they did have us read The Rape of the Lock!
I read Rape of the Lock too…it was the in-class warm-up, with explication by professor, in this satire class I took. Where I also read Swift, Chaucer, Ovid, probably other stuff I can’t recall. But those drunkass intellectual elite sure could get raunchy when they wanted!
i like to think that we are a tiny new drunkass intellectual elite!
Hahaha! Something to aspire to.