Добавлено: Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:21 am Заголовок сообщения:
Вобщем, я думаю, что не хило было бы посмотреть, что сам ТП счситает "маст рид".
И так, из статьи про роль фолклора:Imaginary worlds, real stories
Author: Pratchett, Terry. Source: Folklore (London, England) v. 111 no2 (Oct. 2000) p. 159-168)
1. The Wind In The Willows (Up until then it had never occurred to me that reading could be anything other than a chore, but I read that book in a day, and I wanted a lot more)
2. So fast was I reading, in fact, that I read my way into the mythology and folklore section without realising it. George Ewart Evans,
3. Margaret Murray,
4. Lady Gregory,
5. J. G. Frazer ...
6. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable was a major discovery…. So for years my regular reading of folklore went hand-in-hand with a taste for science fiction and fantasy and, I have to say, outlived them.
Теперь из статьи про Толкина:("The Tolkien Effect" by Terry Pratchett, to be published in Meditations on Middle-earth, edited by Karen Haber (St. Martin’s Press, November 2001).
7. I can remember exactly where and when I was when I first read JRRT. It was New Year's Eve, 1961 … Boys at school had told me about it. It'd got maps in it, they said. This struck me at the time as a pretty good indicator of quality . .. I can remember the vision of beech woods in the Shire… There I was, sitting on this rather chilly Sixties-style couch in this rather bare room, but at the edges of the carpet the forest began. I remember the light as green, coming through the trees. I have never since then so truly had the experience of being inside the story . . .
И, наконец, (Words from the Master The L-Space Web ) Не столько "маст", сколько рекомендации:
8. "I hated the Alice books."
"I didn't like the Alice books because I found them creepy and horribly unfunny in a nasty, plonking, Victorian way. Oh, here's Mr Christmas Pudding On Legs, hohohoho, here's a Caterpillar Smoking A Pipe, hohohoho. When I was a kid the books created in me about the same revulsion as you get when, aged seven, you're invited to kiss your great-grandmother."
9. "These are modern authors whose books I will automatically buy knowing that life is going to get that little bit richer:
George McDonald Fraser (The Flashman books)
Carl Hiaasen (still to get well known over here)
Donald Westlake (a pro)
Joseph Wambaugh
Tom Robbins
But I read more and more non-fiction, biographies and stuff these days."
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