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     Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.254.173.34 |
In case anyone's missed this and wishes to contribute, I thought I'd post a link. It's a fine and appropriate tribute to the good man and his work. http://www.dedicatetrees.com/FundPage.aspx?id=100726 The Woodland Trust do great work in ensuring the survival and new planting of woods and forests. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
Thanks for posting the thread Mark. I've just bought Robert's books for Christmas presents. Such are rich, wonderful, world he created in Mythago Wood. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.184.35 |
Thanks for posting that, Mark. I've already donated something (and have done so in the past for my beloved Welsh forests). Ally, I agree that Robert Holdstock's books set in and around Ryhope Wood open up a rich, wonderful world to lovers of well written imaginative fiction, and I'd definitely recommend them to anyone unfamiliar with his work. Do you have a favourite? Most people seem to prefer either Mythago Wood or Lavondyss. Have you read The Bone Forest? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.27.75 |
Only read Mythago Wood...but not read the others. Will get to them next year :>) | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69 |
My favourite of the Rhope Wood books was always the one I was reading at the time. The most moving, for me at least, was Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn. The one that made me gasp in astonishment was Mythago Wood. The one that was the most immersive and I wish had never ended was Lavondyss. The one that I've reread the most is The Hollowing. And the one I'm thankful for being complete, and now a sad if appropriate goodbye from the great man himself, is Avilion, which promised so much more, stories by the score to come. He was the best, and his books saw me through some very dark times. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69 |
I enjoyed The Bone Forest a lot, Huw. I corresponded with Rob a lot when I was very ill (he was a generous correspondent) and we talked about The Bone Forest. Rob said he''d meant it to be the opening to a novel, and was set on that being the case for a long time, but then decided the character of George Huxley was best left offstage as a Point Of View character. Hence the appearance as a novella. He also told me he wrote it at the same time he was swapping feedback on the Mythago Wood screenplay and as a result it's probably the most filmic of the pieces. |