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Iarwain · 10-27-2007, 08:31 PM

The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The best novel I've read. It's beautiful, exciting, and adventurous. Dostoevsky is intensely descriptive and has incredible characters. He creates a little world for you and you explore it with the characters, as they struggle to figure things out (if only they can do it in time!)...

Bulfinch's Mythology
If you liked the Silmarillion and/or Unfinished Tales, you'll love Bulfinch's Mythology. It's quite long and endlessly amusing, and you'll get to see a lot of the source material that Tolkien worked from. The book has three parts: Ancient (greco-roman) mythology, Arthurian Legends, and Legends relating to Charlemagne.

The Iliad
Homer
Homer is to Greek Mythology what the Lord of the Rings is to the Silmarillion. Truly spectacular book (The Odyssey is good too, but the Iliad is much better). You'll love it!

C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy:
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength

Excellent Sci-Fi, with the added bonus that it's intellectually substantial. There's a lot of mythology here too.

All of these books are spectacular, and you'll be better off having read them.

Best Wishes!
Iarwain

10-27-2007, 08:31 PM	#34
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky The best novel I've read. It's beautiful, exciting, and adventurous. Dostoevsky is intensely descriptive and has incredible characters. He creates a little world for you and you explore it with the characters, as they struggle to figure things out (if only they can do it in time!)... Bulfinch's Mythology If you liked the Silmarillion and/or Unfinished Tales, you'll love Bulfinch's Mythology. It's quite long and endlessly amusing, and you'll get to see a lot of the source material that Tolkien worked from. The book has three parts: Ancient (greco-roman) mythology, Arthurian Legends, and Legends relating to Charlemagne. The Iliad Homer Homer is to Greek Mythology what the Lord of the Rings is to the Silmarillion. Truly spectacular book (The Odyssey is good too, but the Iliad is much better). You'll love it! C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength Excellent Sci-Fi, with the added bonus that it's intellectually substantial. There's a lot of mythology here too. All of these books are spectacular, and you'll be better off having read them. Best Wishes! Iarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"