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I am a fan of C. S. Lewis’s writing style (and C. S. Lewis)!

There was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. His parents called him Eustace Clarence and masters called him Scrubb. I can’t tell you how his friends spoke to him, for he had none. He didn’t call his Father and Mother “Father” and “Mother”, but Harold and Alberta. They were very up-to-date and advanced people. They were vegetarians. non-smokers and teetotalers and wore a special kind of underclothes…

…And then you go to the Pilgrim’s Regress and you just go “What.” C. S. Lewis is the best! (I don’t hashtag, because it’s a sharp. By the way, does anyone here understand Alto Clefs?)

@jane-maree, I do respect J. K. Rowling, because she’s just an awesome author with a very distinct style of writing (that I do admire), but I just couldn’t like Harry…

@fctait, I’ve been meaning to read some of Ursula le Guin’s books, since I watched Studio Ghibli’s Tales from Earthsea, which I totally loved even though it wasn’t by Hayao Miyazaki but by his son.

I also like Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extremely lifelike quality. The resulting picture is sometimes monstrous, but the setting and the whole process of the presentation sometimes happen to be so probable, and with details so subtle, unexpected, yet artistically consistent with the whole fullness of the picture, that even the dreamer himself would be unable to invent them in reality, though he were as much an artist as Pushkin or Turgenev. Such dreams, morbid dreams, are always long remembered and produce a strong impression on the disturbed and already excited organism of the person. Raskolnikov had a terrible dream.

I just fell in love with Crime and Punishment; I think it’s a must for everyone, but it is on the thick side…and the fonts are really tiny.

I have so many other books I love, but I’ll leave with these two. (says the person who always ends up writing a super-essay on these kinds of subjects.)