Spontaneous Emergency Daily Entertainment -- books edition

[yakalskovich]

What are your pups' favourite books, either in canon or millicanon?

And how do you/did you/would you handle pups reading each other's canon?

Discuss!


OMG some orcs are tooting on their vuvuzelas here for some reason. Are these bloody things ever LOUD! Please distract me from murderous thoughts...

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Oh, good question!

Fakir has read a great variety of eighteenth and nineteenth century fairytales available in German, plus whatever German literature I find amusing at any given time. (Thinking of Fakir reading Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, amuses me rather too much.)

Bran Davies primarily read the English and Welsh literary canon: Shakespeare, Dickens, Blake, the Mabinogion in the original Middle Welsh, the Odyssey and Iliad in English translation, recent Welsh nationalist poets like R. S. Thomas, early Arthurian texts including Geoffrey of Monmouth, Malory, etc., that sort of thing.

Archibald Craven has an enormous library and an upper-class education from some very good tutors (although he never did go up to Oxford or Cambridge). He reads in five languages (English, Latin, Italian, German, French, I think, with a smattering of Greek), mostly classics. He is also fond of The Sorrows of Young Werther, because it still amuses me.

Lyra Silvertongue comes from an alternate universe, and while she has gotten a good Oxford education at this point in her life, it's fairly safe to assume that most of what she's read is just a little bit different than literatures we know in our universe. For instance, I millicanoned that in Lyra's universe the works of Shakespeare were written by Marlowe and differed in several features from the plays we know. I also totally rewrote her universe's version of Plato's Symposium (http://community.livejournal.com/milliways_bar/14953292.html?thread=615618124) to account for daemons.

One of the reasons I never played Literature Preserver Lewis much before I retired him is that he was very difficult to handle in Milliways. He's read everything, and I mean everything, ever written, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Discworld. (That's canon!) He's also got an exhaustive database of literature studies permanently installed in his brain. This meant that when Lewis met people from book canons, he knew everything about them, every time.

I have no idea what Dono Vorrutyer has read. Vorkosigan canon is pretty vague about what literature's made its way to the future. Hm. I'll have to think about that.