(January 22, 2015 at 3:25 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I tried to mention books that were easily accessible and NOT necessarily the first things everyone says.
Douglas Adams usually is. Everyone has read him, and everyone knows about him. Time to move on. That's why, despite having him inked on me, I don't often recommend Tolkien.
See, I think it's worth mentioning just in case, but I haven't found that everybody knows about him, at least nowhere near someone like Tolkien.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell