"I profoundly admire (Mal's) combination of curiosity and willingness to change his mind. "
300% what struck me the most about his book, too, still does. You get a handful of people who are wickedly good ... preachers ("speaker" doesn't seem to cover his magical magnetic quality), and you might have a handful who are ferociously brilliant intellectuals, but those at the same time *with* that flexibility is...... I honestly can't really think of any other biography that's left that effect, you know?
"The Playboy Interviews" written by Alex Haley are neat too, by the way - that dude's also lived one hell of a life and it shows in the writing imo.
For the other ones - any book recommendation that involves a comparison with Sylvain has *got* to be fun on a number of levels, all messy - so that one might be the rare fiction book i'll put on the list heh. also extremely digging it based off of your description, thanku~
(PS, speaking of Lua's Favorite Tropes and FE? just got a delicious Tellius fill for a fic i think you'd like for one of those listed tropes. ;> https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/91938337 )
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Date: 2022-02-04 02:44 am (UTC)300% what struck me the most about his book, too, still does. You get a handful of people who are wickedly good ... preachers ("speaker" doesn't seem to cover his magical magnetic quality), and you might have a handful who are ferociously brilliant intellectuals, but those at the same time *with* that flexibility is...... I honestly can't really think of any other biography that's left that effect, you know?
"The Playboy Interviews" written by Alex Haley are neat too, by the way - that dude's also lived one hell of a life and it shows in the writing imo.
For the other ones - any book recommendation that involves a comparison with Sylvain has *got* to be fun on a number of levels, all messy - so that one might be the rare fiction book i'll put on the list heh. also extremely digging it based off of your description, thanku~
(PS, speaking of Lua's Favorite Tropes and FE? just got a delicious Tellius fill for a fic i think you'd like for one of those listed tropes. ;> https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/91938337 )