XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.books.childrens   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
      
   > In message    
   > Steve Hayes  spoke these staves:   
      
   > In connection to that, it made me wonder to find no Shakespeare or   
   > Chaucer on the list.   
      
   I imagine that depends heavily on the "translation".  I wonder if Chaucer in   
   its original might be as intelligible to a Dane as to the English.  Every   
   English reader probably _should_ try to read some Chaucer, but not in the   
   original.   
      
   > I'm a bit curious about the word "preachy" here. It seems to carry a   
   > strongly negative connotation that goes beyond simply the "agitating   
   > for an obvious agenda" that the word itself implies, but often I get   
   > the impression that the use of the word is very subjective: that it   
   > really means "agitating for an obvious agenda, *which /I/ don't   
   > like*."   
      
   That would be the common usage - and my take on Pullman's feelings about   
   Lewis was exactly like that.   
   >   
   >> I wonder if the releace of the film "The golden compass" had   
   >> anything to do with the librarians' choice.   
   >   
   > Given that the Potter books, which finished this summer, hasn't made   
   > it to the list, I don't really think that popularity has had that   
   > much importance.   
      
   It's not so much about popularity, as controversy.  At least in the US, some   
   weighty lobby groups have called for it to be banned - there's nothing like   
   a good banning to get the Librarians agitated :-)   
      
   > My own list would probably reflect that I'm Danish, including more   
   > Danish authors than any non-Dane would ;-)   
      
   Well, one of the commenters on Steve's blog voted for /Smila's Sense of   
   Snow/ by Hoeg (actually, that wasn't the title he used, but it's the title   
   of the translation I read).  That's worth putting on the list.   
   --   
   derek   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)