|
|
Post by Dermott on Aug 3, 2009 12:16:57 GMT -5
::Notices that neither of us quoted Harry as a favorite character:: ;D.
I guess he's not so loved after all ;D ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by Sinbad on Aug 3, 2009 12:54:53 GMT -5
Harry is... okay. But he´s too much the centre of the story to be my favourite if that makes any sense.  And he sometimes has a weird way to treat his friends. |
|
|
|
Post by maeve3000 on Sept 27, 2009 15:07:15 GMT -5
haaaa here is ine thrat.. ok coming from the book of before threat...
where are the MZB fans?? just Dermott and me???
|
|
|
|
Post by Sinbad on Sept 27, 2009 15:09:33 GMT -5
MZB as in Marion Zimmer Bradley? I read Mists of Avalon but that was aaaages ago. And I read Hawk Mistress from the Darkover books |
|
|
|
Post by Dermott on Sept 27, 2009 15:15:34 GMT -5
Yes, it is Nili  I've always been a MZB geek, by an emotional pov at least, maybe because one of her Darkover books had been my first fantasy novel ever. maeve3000You still have a lot of stories to read. May I suggest you to follow the inner chronological order? (which is different from the one of the novels' pubblication). There is an intersing twist about reincarnation, and in this way you'll have a lot of fun in trying to recognize the characters who will come back in every book. |
|
|
|
Post by maeve3000 on Sept 27, 2009 15:15:49 GMT -5
yes as Marion Zimmer Bradley... first I readed the mist of avalon, than the priestss and now ravens...
actually I'm a lazy reader... magazine yes.. mostly equine.. equine books... BUT give me a MZB and I will read it. I LOVE her. the mist I readed two times... many many of it from my way to London to Los Angeles LOOL and then back from los angeles to London... the "little" flights Düsseldorf to London and then Los angeles to Sacramento I hadn't read LOL...
|
|
|
|
Post by Dermott on Sept 27, 2009 15:27:20 GMT -5
Wow, You have travelled a lot  As for me I've read the Avalon books several times, but I have my favourites. I liked a lot "the Forest House", and the first part of "Lady of Avalon" but secondly came right after "The fall of Atlantis" and "Ancestors of Avalon" ;D ;D |
|
Rongar
Second Mate
An expressive face reveals every happiness and woe...
Posts: 2,087
|
Post by Rongar on Sept 27, 2009 15:29:45 GMT -5
I've read the book, a long time ago, but I read it. I also have the book in my room!
I'm a fan of her books, I just haven't read them in a long time.
|
|
|
|
Post by Maeve on Sept 27, 2009 15:46:10 GMT -5
Funny you guys started talking about MZB today 'cause I'm just about to finish the second tome of her Mists of Avalon trilogy!
And so far, I absolutely love it! I love how she brilliantly depicted the Arthurian myth through the women's point of view, especially that of Morgane La Fée, since she's the character usually regarded as evil in the legend.
I was also very surprised to read about the Celtic pagan religion because I wasn't expecting to find that aspect in the book at all! (I had the books for my birthday and I just began reading them out of courtesy and respect for the person who gave them to me...) Being some sort of Celtic pagan myself, I was very pleased with how she illustrated the cult of the Goddess.
|
|
Rongar
Second Mate
An expressive face reveals every happiness and woe...
Posts: 2,087
|
Post by Rongar on Sept 27, 2009 15:57:33 GMT -5
From what I remember it was very well written.
At the time, I was more interested in the Lancelot angle in which she described Lancelot's love for Arthur and then how he transfered it to Guinevere so as to 'fit in' at courts.
But yea, the pagan representation of the story was well written.
|
|
|
|
Post by Maeve on Sept 27, 2009 16:08:36 GMT -5
Aye! I was also very curious to see how the love triangle Arthur/Guenevere/Lancelot would play out! But I must say that from the moment Guenevere was introduced, she annoyed me to the core. She was simply way too blinded by her fervent religious beliefs! And the whole threesome thing!?!  That literally threw me off my chair! Anyway, I'm not done reading it yet, so maybe I'll get a couple more surprises... |
|
|
|
Post by Doubar on Sept 27, 2009 16:12:39 GMT -5
*feels like a total dork now 'caus she's never heard about both of them: the book and the author*  |
|
alex
Landlubber
I live for freedom
Posts: 27 
|
Post by alex on Sept 27, 2009 21:37:00 GMT -5
*feels like a total dork now 'caus she's never heard about both of them: the book and the author* Oh, I have heard about the TV movie but never read the book nor knew that it existed. So you don't need to feel a dork. Unless you consider me a dork, too.  ;D But I only smile or smirk when someone tells that to me. ;D |
|
|
|
Post by maeve3000 on Sept 28, 2009 7:13:04 GMT -5
OK OK I need to read more like I told I hadn't read all Avalons books right now. yeah and travel alot... was all one travel from Germany to USA (Sacramento one way was to expensice so I got a british airways flight... from düsseldorf to London and from London to Los angeles... and from there a small flight to sacramento... this was well never been away frm at home, never been flight before... have I mention that I'm crazy?  well but it was a cool time in California. Morgaine is my fav. charackter out of the mist of avalon book... and Guenewere?? well I LOVE strong womens, womens with self confident and straight... I do not see this in her. she is to christian beliveing for me... women behind the men and that all... the ovie was good in the first part the second was bad.. very bad.. |
|
alex
Landlubber
I live for freedom
Posts: 27
|
Post by alex on Sept 28, 2009 8:30:12 GMT -5
Actually, the woman behind the man comes from society and has nothing to do with Christian belief. I don't note anywhere in the Bible that said a woman is behind the man. The fact that it always says "man" is due to the fact it was written by a man. The "man" in the Bible means more like person.
|
|
And he sometimes has a weird way to treat his friends. 
That literally threw me off my chair!
;D But I only smile or smirk when someone tells that to me. ;D
well but it was a cool time in California.