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benlehman ([personal profile] benlehman) wrote2005-10-20 11:27 pm

Reading

I'm reading Don Quixote. It's very good, but very different than expected.

It's great to know that, almost 500 years before the genre started, there was a man even more disgusted by fat fantasy than I am.
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[identity profile] locke61dv.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
fat fantasy?

[identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The Gyllymyyladl -- An epic cycle in 19 parts, by George Jordan.

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--Ben

ugh..

[identity profile] aumshantih.livejournal.com 2005-10-21 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I loathe those things. However, now I spend all my time reading Gloranthan sources, and neverending Puraunic Mythology. I'm unsure if it's a much better trade off.

Re: ugh..

[identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com 2005-10-22 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm... Joy is key.

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--Ben

Re: ugh..

[identity profile] aumshantih.livejournal.com 2005-10-23 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
As are Consciousness and Being.

[identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com 2005-10-21 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Dude: If some guy comes into your house and pisses on your cornflakes, are you a hater for wanting him out of the house? 'cause, in that case, yeah, I'm a hater.

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--Ben

[identity profile] lordsmerf.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
In addition to being a hilarious and well-crafted piece of fiction, it also spawned a quite enjoyable musical: Man of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion, and Dale Wasserman. I recommend it!

Thomas

Rock on.

[identity profile] psychotropek.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
My aunt wrote several books on Don Quixote. But I can't find them on Amazon. Mainly because they're not in English, although I could swear she's written articles in English.

But yeah, it's also an example of metafiction in places, long before we started using the word meta.