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(Date Posted:06/15/2004 07:39:35)
Hey folks,Just thought I'd start off a discussion of what we might all think were our favorite Harington novels so far. I have just begunWithso I can't comment on it yet.Having loved them all for different reasons, I guess I'd have to say thatThe Choiring of the Treesis the one I go back to most often. Does this qualify it as my favorite? I suppose so, but you must realize that this is a temporary thing. I will relate a life event to another one of his books soon, and that one will move to the fore, for a bit, out of the last four I've read.The title alone was enough to grab me. This idea of trees "choiring". I know that none of us can really understand what goes on inside the author's head, but I like to think that I can hear exactly what is being described in the book. The utter hopelessness of the moment for Chism is the very thing that attunes his mind to the "unhearable". ( my apologies if that isn't really a word ) This notion of being at your most desperate and final moment and receiving what cannot be described. I found a great deal of comfort in that idea.It was a wonderful book, and there are, as usual with Prof. Harington's books, a number of different levels to consider. On the surface, the shocking acts, then below that, the subtext of life rolling along, damn the preferences of the living, and even more esoteric concepts that I haven't the skull magic to understand.Anyway... thats my two cents. thoughts?
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