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Enjoy your rest, Madeleine L'Engle

Postby EricTheFred » Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:01 pm

Just saw on the news, Madeleine L'Engle, author of many wonderful Christian-based fantasies, and best known for 'A Wrinkle In Time', has passed away at age 88.
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Postby ilikegir33 » Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:49 pm

I will remember her great writing.
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Postby Puguni » Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:11 pm

ASD:LKGJ. NO WAY.

Well that stinks. :C
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Postby Doubleshadow » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:03 pm

Oh, no. I loved her writing. What a loss.
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Postby ChristianKitsune » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:36 pm

WHUT!? Aww! She will be greatly missed... I loved her stories...-_-
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Postby Kuro-Mizu » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:05 pm

THAT CAN'T HAPPEN!!! *cries*


thats so sad... she was so wacky yet had such an enjoyable writing style and was willing to break down the barriers when writing (having a female protagonist)

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Postby CreatureArt » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:00 am

:( I'm sorry to hear that. I haven't read her books, but I have heard of 'A Wrinkle in Time.' What a dear lady - the world will miss her.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:17 am

Am I the only one that didn't like A Wrinkle in Time? Maybe I should reread it.

Anyway, she will be missed. D:
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Postby Kuro-Mizu » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:23 am

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:Am I the only one that didn't like A Wrinkle in Time? Maybe I should reread it.

Anyway, she will be missed. D:


I doubt it. Its a really weird book, probably to weird for alot of people.
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Postby Calypsa » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:24 am

Aw, that's so sad. :( She'll be greatly missed... I absolutely loved her books. *sniff*
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Postby mitsuki lover » Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:10 pm

The item in the Spokesman Review yesterday that talked about her death mentioned the part of her being a Christian.
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Postby Nikolai Melodie » Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:14 pm

...She died?!

Really? NO WAY.

Only just after I got re-interested in some of her works.... that's really a shame... wow. I'm a lot sadder then expected I would be...
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Postby uc pseudonym » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:10 pm

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:Am I the only one that didn't like A Wrinkle in Time?

Not at all.

However, the loss of such a notable author is still sad.
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Postby Gypsy » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:19 pm

I've never actually read it. I may take the time to check it out now.
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Postby righteous_slave » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:53 pm

When my mother taught third grade, she read Winkle in Time to the class every year.
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Postby Mithrandir » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:01 am

*sigh*

I'm not looking forward to breaking the news to the wolf on this one. This was one of her favorite authors.
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Postby rocklobster » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:07 am

One of mine too. A Wrinkle in Time is one of the most fantastic books ever written.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:08 am

Didn't she also write another book where the action took place in the days right before the flood?
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Postby EricTheFred » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:08 pm

She wrote a whole series of books based upon the protagonists of "A Wrinkle in Time", the last of which was "Many Waters", the book you are describing. There is (to my knowledge) two books between them, plus a book in which the protagonists are Meg's parents.

Calvin O'keefe (Meg's boyfriend and eventually husband) and Poly, their daughter, also show up in other books. Actually, you can work connections between most of her books with Calvin and Canon Tallis (not in A Wrinkle in Time) as the bridging characters.
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Postby MasterDias » Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:46 pm

I've enjoyed her books for the most part, the ones that I read anyway.
Although, I never really did figure out what her theology was.
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Postby EricTheFred » Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:58 pm

As I understand it, she was a moderate Protestant.

One must always remember that an author of fiction is by definition writing things she does not necessarily believe to be true, but her books tend to suggest she believed that Science and Religion revealed different facets of the same Truth. An example of this would be the presence of both mammoths and nephilim in the above-mentioned book "Many Waters".
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