Comments on "Lloyd Alexander, 1924-2007" - Faerye Net

Re: :(

2007-05-24T12:33:47+00:00

Indeed.

Re: Supplemental readings

2007-05-24T12:32:56+00:00

I haven’t read Time Cat yet, tho’ I own a copy.

The Chronicles are a big obvious one. The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, The High King and even the charming supplement The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain are highly recommended.

Of his stand-alone books, my favorite so far is The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian, and The Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha is rather amusing too. The Vesper Holly books are a matter of taste, but amusing. If only for the hilarity of a female action hero blowing off the handsome guy who falls in love with her each book, telling him she is too busy having adventures for a boyfriend.

Supplemental readings

2007-05-24T07:14:54+00:00

Do you have recommendations of anything else he wrote? I couldn’t get into the Westmark series (okay, I did, but the last book left a bad taste in my mouth), and The Rope Trick was just horridly bland, sorta turned me off of trying anything else. Time Cat? Anything? Bueller?

On a related note, go to the library today or tomorrow (you do have a library card by now, right?)-no, this can’t wait any longer than that-and pick up a copy of Kiki Strike in the Shadow City. I forget whom by.

That’s assuming, of course, that you’ve already read Onion Girl, by Charles De Lint, because if you haven’t done that then you need to leave whatever you’re doing right now as you read this, buy yourself a copy at the closest retail outlet and enough food for you to survive for the next 23 hours, perhaps more if you have a wedding or funeral to go to between now and then.

But you’re making me stray from my point: Kiki Strike is a totally squee-worthy book, easily the best I’ve read since Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist (which was the best since Onion Girl, which was the best since Feeling Sorry for Celia, which I gave you because you needed to read it so much). But I really did start this post wanting recommendations from you!

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2007-05-23T19:31:25+00:00

Wow. I never even read any of his books, but your description of his letter made me all weepy-eyed. He sounds like someone the world needs to make more of.