Charlie can skip this book recc. thread.

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Fade: Fuck YES Their Eyes Were Watching God. How she describes the storm and the flood is fucking gorgeous.

Yeah, the origin of the title even...when everyone realizes that staying behind was a terrible idea, and they're sitting in dark houses: "they were staring into the dark, but their eyes were watching God"... brrr... shivers.

 

[Cajungal]

I'm not going to go with most important, because that's a little too hard to decide. If I had to recommend the book I've enjoyed the most, it would be either A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Til We Have Faces. I just think that they're both beautiful stories that I can read anytime.

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I actually really enjoyed the Last Unicorn movie when I was a kid. Never read the book though.

It's not terrible, mind you. Just inferior to the book in so many ways. Happy-fying the ending really bugged me. A lot. It sort of ruins the central theme of the book.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. I love that book. I also read Two Hearts... not as good, but a neat little finish.

 

[AshburnerX]

Grr... all this talk of The Last Unicorn makes we want to find a copy of the movie The Flight of Dragons. DAMN YOU NOSTALGIA!

 

[Espy]

I love the Last Unicorn movie... in my memory anyway. Re-watched it with a buddy a few year back... and it was horrible.
I really should read that book.

 

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I'm not going to go with most important, because that's a little too hard to decide. If I had to recommend the book I've enjoyed the most, it would be either A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Til We Have Faces. I just think that they're both beautiful stories that I can read anytime.

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I actually really enjoyed the Last Unicorn movie when I was a kid. Never read the book though.

It's not terrible, mind you. Just inferior to the book in so many ways. Happy-fying the ending really bugged me. A lot. It sort of ruins the central theme of the book.

Agreed. I love that book. I also read Two Hearts... not as good, but a neat little finish.[/QUOTE]

I've read other Beagle books, but none are as good as Unicorn. A Fine and Private Place comes very close (though it's not fantasy if that's a thing for you). Same lilting style, but far less well-formed. It smacks of first novel, not having the pieces in quite the right places. But still a very beautiful book. A friend once said that Beagle used it all up on The Last Unicorn.

 

[Cajungal]

That's what I've heard too. I went to a convention where he gave a lecture titled "There's no such thing as a fine and private place," simple meaning that you'll never get any writing done if you keep waiting for perfect silence, the perfect place, the perfect amount of time, complete privacy, etc.

I've heard that "The Rhinoceros who quoted Neitczhe" is a good short story.

 

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The title is taken from the Marvell poem 'To His Coy Mistress':

The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

 

[ElJuski]

"To His Coy Mistress" is an amazing poem. "If I had all eternity to dote upon your perfection, I would; too bad life is fleeting, so let's fuck!"

 

[Cajungal]

The title is taken from the Marvell poem 'To His Coy Mistress':

The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

I thought it was familiar... haven't read that since high school.