My forever writers

[melengro]

A while back I was asked to make a list of fifty writers who are in my all-time Bitches Better Recognise ~*~CANON~*~, from any art form as long as it's narrative. I realised, to my dismay, that I was actually able to come up with only about forty! Here they are, for your health, in no particular order!

• J.R.R. Tolkien
• C.S. Lewis
• Charles Williams

Comments

[elle_white]

It was strange that when my lit class (the one that was studying Buffy) began studying Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. The majority of the class actually believed Carter merely reiterated the sexism of the fairytales she was supposedly deconstructing! The class thought Buffy was a flawless example of feminism, but Angela Carter was missing the point! *head desks forever*

I'd actually forgotten about that until I saw your list!

You have some excellent writers on your list! I love Miyazaki, Tolkein, Carter and Joyce in particular!

[melengro]

It was strange that when my lit class (the one that was studying Buffy) began studying Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. The majority of the class actually believed Carter merely reiterated the sexism of the fairytales she was supposedly deconstructing! The class thought Buffy was a flawless example of feminism, but Angela Carter was missing the point! *head desks forever*

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME.

SERIOUSLY? FUCKING SERIOUSLY?

[elle_white]

YEAH. Although, the lecturer (and one of my friends) didn't agree at all. It was extremely odd how many of them found Carter's Bloody Chamber to be a badly done deconstructionist fantasy, when they struggled to find any flaws with Buffy.

Carter was truly brilliant in some regards and did some genuinely innovative things in her writing. I feel tempted to read some of her short stories again!

With a few exceptions, Whedon has produced A LOT of crap. He seems to follow the doctrine that 'True Art is Angsty' and I hate that. 'No one can be happy: art.' :O

[airie_fairy]

Jooooyyyyyycccce. And Bulgakov. Omg Bulgakov. His sense of humor in parts really is like reading Douglas Adams or something, the deadpan absurdity, but like...denser and even more absurd. And Russian, which automatically wins at everything. Speaking of poor tacked on Dostoyevsky at the end. I want to just eat his books like giant sandwiches.

[melengro]

Be careful! I wouldn't want The Possessed to give you heartburn.

[airie_fairy]

I would gladly suffer gout if I could just figure out how to actually eat this man's writing. And I'm sure it'd end in gout, too. He's very rich and dense.

[shaherizad]

I absolutely must check out all of the people on this list who I haven't yet (I got stuck in one book series in high school and haven't come out since, for anything except various anime and pokemon).

[melengro]

What series is that?

[shaherizad]

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. I'm re-reading it right now, actually, to prepare to read the newest book.