Re: Another JDS/bananafish newbie
a candy colored clown (mws4c@faraday.clas.virginia.edu)
Tue, 01 Jul 1997 14:59:26 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, randy royal wrote:
> i agree strongly with you. last fall i walked into my local used
> bookstore (i had just finished reading everything by tolkien and his
> biography) picked up, among other books, Beowulf. the store owner
> thought it was for school, because i was only 12 then, but still...
> tolkien loved it, i loved tolkien and so i thought, hey what the
> hell. so i took home beowulf, and it rocked. i really do think that
> if waited till i was assinged to do it in high school, i would have
> dreaded it. even if you have read beowulf, buy it and read it again!
> this is good classic stuff. cya~ randy
> "everything belongs to me because i am poor"- jack Kerouac
>
and if you liked beowulf, you'll really really love Grendel by John
Gardner. written about 20 years ago (as opposed to several hundred) it's
from the nasty beast's point of view and it's really quite amazingly funny
and eye-opening. you walk away loving grendel much more than those mead
chugging humorless saps of human beings.