tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post5673997072918043310..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Lev Butts' Top Ten (Part II)Katherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-22324422305452829892014-10-24T14:05:26.039+01:002014-10-24T14:05:26.039+01:00Still haven't touched Lord of the Rings. But I...Still haven't touched Lord of the Rings. But I'm with you on Gatsby--and am loving the way that you're stretching this thread out!glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-76096366172409308682014-10-23T13:20:03.484+01:002014-10-23T13:20:03.484+01:00Yes to both of these, Lev. My dad 'discovered&...Yes to both of these, Lev. My dad 'discovered' the Lord of the Rings in our local library, a few years before it became the cult it eventually was - we both became pretty much obsessed with it! I love Gatsby too, but it's one of those books they do at school here, before most of them are mature enough to understand it. Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-34792131060770638932014-10-23T12:14:52.363+01:002014-10-23T12:14:52.363+01:00gollum and gatsby, strange bedfellows indeed! alwa...gollum and gatsby, strange bedfellows indeed! always fascinating to read what others love - and what people see in them. Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-49869374750710009022014-10-23T12:08:23.863+01:002014-10-23T12:08:23.863+01:00I've never read Gatsby - but Lev, your account...I've never read Gatsby - but Lev, your account of it makes me want to.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-16819533642443907992014-10-23T11:51:52.230+01:002014-10-23T11:51:52.230+01:00I was thinking only yesterday: what book - no, wha...I was thinking only yesterday: what book - no, what writer's whole body of work - has inspired so much other art in the forms of literature, drama, music and visual art, as The Lord Of The Rings? I racked my brains, and could only come up with the Bible, and legends like King Arthur (neither of which really count, being committee efforts).<br /><br />Say what you like about Tolkien geek-dom, it's an extraordinary prolific sub-culture, triggered by a single work (more or less) by a single writer. That's more than astonishing.<br /><br />Speaking of Tolkien-inspired art, Lev: if you have at all a taste for rock music, then I point you towards Bob Catley's very obscure album 'Middle Earth'. A brilliant homage beyond all expectations. Naturally he's from Birmingham, like the great JRRT himself.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08191176209084540085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-10044405773197414842014-10-23T11:15:41.754+01:002014-10-23T11:15:41.754+01:00Gee, Lev, I'm going to have to wait a long tim...Gee, Lev, I'm going to have to wait a long time for 9 and 10. You made me start thinking what my ten most significant would be but at the moment 'tis too hard a knot for me to untie. But I do rate Gatsby higher than Madwippit does both for its ironic, tragic plot and its extraordinary senses of time, place and atmosphere. I wasn't there to judge how accurate they are but they have the ring of absolute authenticity and dangerous moral ambiguity. So my taste for flappers and bathtub gin is as strong as ever, though never, I fear, quite fulfilled.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-80901060173773401692014-10-23T07:04:34.049+01:002014-10-23T07:04:34.049+01:00Hobbit and Lord of the rings - tick. But Gatsby? ...<br />Hobbit and Lord of the rings - tick. But Gatsby? Perplexed. I seem to be the only person in the world who thinks it is overrated. I didn't care much for the bloated Tender is the Night when we did it for A level either. I just don't get Fitzgerald. I have tried, but you can definitely keep him for your shelves! :-)madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com