It was a dark and stormy night....
Smunkeeville
07-09-2007, 23:03
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/09/07/madeleine-lengle.html
one of my favorite authors died. :(
sadness.
Did anyone else enjoy her books? What was your favorite?
New Limacon
07-09-2007, 23:14
I read A Wrinkle in Time and A Swiftly Turning Planet. The second I remember less well, but I do remember loving the first. I didn't know she died until she saw this, now I want to reread her books, it's been a while.
Johnny B Goode
07-09-2007, 23:17
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/09/07/madeleine-lengle.html
one of my favorite authors died. :(
sadness.
Did anyone else enjoy her books? What was your favorite?
:(
A Wrinkle In Time was a really good read. I don't normally go for science fiction (well, I've read a little), but those books are great.
Fassigen
07-09-2007, 23:20
I'm not familiar, and a quick search reveals that only three of her books were ever translated into Swedish, so I guess I didn't miss much.
I only just realised that I've seen a TV adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time. IMS it was pretty good.
Dempublicents1
07-09-2007, 23:22
I think I started to pick up A Wrinkle in Time once, but got distracted by something else or someone else was borrowing it or something. I don't think I've actually read any of her books. =(
Chumblywumbly
07-09-2007, 23:23
I remember enjoying A Wrinkle in Time at least, so sadness indeed.
Your thread title reminded me of this:
It was a dark and stormy night. Two men sat around a campfire. One said to the other, "Tell us a story". "Ok", said the other, "It was a dark and stormy night. Two men sat around a campfire. One said to the other, "Tell us a story". "Ok", said the other, "It was a dark and stormy night. Two men sat around a campfire. One said to the other, "Tell us a story". "Ok", said the other, "It was a dark and stormy night"...
New Limacon
07-09-2007, 23:24
I'm not familiar, and a quick search reveals that only three of her books were ever translated into Swedish, so I guess I didn't miss much.
It's getting to the point where I can't tell if your joking when you say this.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
07-09-2007, 23:34
It's getting to the point where I can't tell if your joking when you say this.
Neither, he's trolling. It's best just not to respond, as, if you do, he'll never let up on the argument until he's had the last word.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/09/07/madeleine-lengle.html
one of my favorite authors died. :(
sadness.
Did anyone else enjoy her books? What was your favorite?
:(
Fassigen
07-09-2007, 23:45
It's getting to the point where I can't tell if your joking when you say this.
Only partially. The amount of translated material can be used as a very rough indicator of the quality among the unknowns. Added to that is the fact that my local library confines her books to the "juvenile" section. Not very prosperous signs.
The Tribes Of Longton
07-09-2007, 23:48
Having read the wikipedia article about A Wrinkle in Time, I'm kind of pissed off with my parents. It sounds like exactly the sort of book I would have enjoyed as a preteen.
Misc4444
07-09-2007, 23:52
Oh, my God! I didn't know she died! That is sad. She was a gifted writer, and I wish I could be half as good as she was. I never got to read anything but "A Wrinkle in Time", but I thought that it was fantastic! I would've read more but I didn't know of them. So, now I'm going to go check them out and reread "Wrinkle". Thanks for posting, and I feel your pain too.:(
United Chicken Kleptos
08-09-2007, 00:14
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/09/07/madeleine-lengle.html
one of my favorite authors died. :(
sadness.
Did anyone else enjoy her books? What was your favorite?
You mean she was still alive? I thought she died in like the 1960s.
Errikland
08-09-2007, 00:22
Oh, how sad! I really liked her books.
damn, A Wrinkle in Time was by far one of my fav. from her. sad...
Smunkeeville
08-09-2007, 00:34
Only partially. The amount of translated material can be used as a very rough indicator of the quality among the unknowns. Added to that is the fact that my local library confines her books to the "juvenile" section. Not very prosperous signs.
She wrote about 60 books, her most popular are novels for children, I read the Wrinkle in time series of books when I was about 10.
Chandelier
08-09-2007, 01:22
I remember reading those years ago. I'm sad now. :(
Upper Botswavia
08-09-2007, 01:27
A Wrinkle in Time is what originally got me interested in quantum physics. Now I am sad too. :(
HotRodia
08-09-2007, 02:02
I hope she has a lovely afterlife.
Her books were some of my favorites when I was about 9 or 10.
Dalmatia Cisalpina
08-09-2007, 02:08
I read both A Wrinkle in Time and A Ring of Endless Light. Several years later, I think my favorite book of hers is A Ring of Endless Light. I was very sad to hear that she died.
I read some of her books when I was younger, and I really did enjoy them. And if it wasn't for this thread I probably would never know that she had died.
Ardchoille
08-09-2007, 06:29
Woe. Sadly, I didn't find A Wrinkle in Time until I was at the "I'm too clever to be impressed by anything" stage of adolescence. But I was able to feed her books to my kids before they got that obnoxious, and we all enjoyed them then.
I hope she's still adventuring.
The Brevious
08-09-2007, 10:13
It was a dark and stormy night. Two men sat around a campfire. One said to the other, "Tell us a story". "Ok", said the other, "It was a dark and stormy night. Two men sat around a campfire. One said to the other, "Tell us a story". "Ok", said the other, "It was a dark and stormy night. Two men sat around a campfire. One said to the other, "Tell us a story". "Ok", said the other, "It was a dark and stormy night"...
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/lyttony.htm
I have one of their collections. Pretty funny.
As per OP: had it referenced to me several, several times, but since i dropped reading fiction in 95 or so, i haven't gotten around to it.
:(
EDIT: Favourite:
She held it in her hands, gently rubbing the long, warm cylinder, its skin taut against the rich, full moisture of the inside and perfectly shaped yet smaller than the others she had gathered in the past hot month, her fingers massaged the soft, spongy tip - it was satiated and rich, ready to open and burst white slime onto her fingers - she thought to put it in her mouth, but, no, a little too ripe, she thought and picked up the Chinese carving knife from the counter and chopped off the rotten end: "The zucchini season is almost over and, Frank my dear, I don't give a damn," she said to her husband who, startled, wide-eyed, looked up at her from over the rim of his coffee cup and stopped in midbite of his zucchini bread.
Jello Biafra
08-09-2007, 12:15
Aw, that sucks.
Desperate Measures
08-09-2007, 12:23
"Our truest responsibility to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find the truth."
-Madeleine L'Engle
Desperate Measures
08-09-2007, 12:27
Only partially. The amount of translated material can be used as a very rough indicator of the quality among the unknowns. Added to that is the fact that my local library confines her books to the "juvenile" section. Not very prosperous signs.
I agree with your reasoning but in this case you're wrong. You should check it out. I read the Wrinkle in Time series when I was 23 about the same time that I tried to read Harrry Potter. I got through only the first page of Potter but read the entire Wrinkle in Time series in about a week.