More teenage bookcase embarrassments
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mmcirvinCrooked Timber has a thread up on the ever-popular subject of books you're embarrassed to have loved, as discussed here over a year ago.
What's striking is that the same names keep coming up over and over: Erich von Däniken, Richard Bach, Ayn Rand, Piers Anthony, Robert Heinlein (though several people point out that the shame with Heinlein is not to enjoy his work but to take him as your personal guru). And Jake even mentioned Colin Wilson in a very different context.
Somebody quoted Ursula Le Guin as saying that kids might like junk but no kid is dumb enough to like Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Wrong.
What's striking is that the same names keep coming up over and over: Erich von Däniken, Richard Bach, Ayn Rand, Piers Anthony, Robert Heinlein (though several people point out that the shame with Heinlein is not to enjoy his work but to take him as your personal guru). And Jake even mentioned Colin Wilson in a very different context.
Somebody quoted Ursula Le Guin as saying that kids might like junk but no kid is dumb enough to like Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Wrong.
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Date: 2005-12-20 10:18 am (UTC)Hee hee hee hee hee.
You know, I'm almost convinced that Brown does it on purpose.
"We should," the man fired back. "We invented it."
That reminds me of the episode in the new Doctor Who series where the Doctor and Rose meet a man who claims to own the Internet. Rose protests that no one owns the Internet, and the man replies, "Yes, and let's just let people keep thinking that."