From withrow@vnet.net Sat Aug  5 22:57:10 1995
Subject: RE: your Web pages/fantasy lit/Personality types/etc.
 
Dear Doug,
 
I just found your pages today and was absolutely fascinated.  I
too, am an INFJ/INTJ.  And yes, we do seem to share many of the
same literary likes/dislikes.  On your list I found many
favorites: Steven Brust, the Thomas Covenant series, Gene Wolfe,
Dan Simmons and Orson Card.
 
I'd like to suggest to you some others I have enjoyed:
 
Anything written by Charles De Lint.  You might try the Jack of
Kinrowan paperback which combines two of his earlier books.  Also
good were The Little Country, Yarrow, Moonheart and Spiritwood.
 
Some of Brust's Minnesota friends: Will Shetterly and Emma Bull.
Her Finder and his Elsewhere and Nevernever were quite good.
Pamela Dean's Tam Lin and Ellen Kushner's Thomas the Rhymer were
great reads, too.
 
I also read anything Neil Gaiman does and particularly enjoyed
his Angels and Visitations collection of short fiction. An
absolute HAVE TO READ!!!
 
Old favorites are Tolkien, of course, and Harlan Ellison.  I
can't think of enough good things to say about Ellison as a
writer and as a person.  I know he gets himself into trouble
speaking his mind, but we need guys like him to keep us honest.
Ellison is an absolute breath of fresh air after the daily
insincerities we are subjected to from our national leaders,
don't you think?  Ellison shows us the sides of ourselves we need
to see, not always the sides we like to see or like to have
others see.(If you know what I mean)
 
I think we differ in musical tastes more than in literary.
DISCO???  Enya however, I do like. Along with her sister Maire
Brennan and Clannad.
 
Well, enough rambling.  THanks for the lovely pages.  They are
great fun.
 
Robin Mercer
withrow@vnet.net