Why I Really Like This Book

Why I Really Like This Book

These are podcasts about forgotten fiction, for curious readers, and for anyone who likes old books. Sometimes they're stories, sometimes they're not. Most of the authors write in English; and sometimes they don't. But all the books I talk about, I really really like. I hope you will too.

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My name is Kate Macdonald: I'm an English lecturer, and a lifelong browser in second-hand bookshops. I post weekly ten-minute podcasts on a Friday, on the books I really like which I think deserve new readers. You can find out lots more at the Facebook page here, and get these podcasts weekly by subscribing on the iTunes link above.

The music for the podcast intro is by The Tribe Band. Lucy Marsh did the drawing and Matthias Opsomer lettered it. Patrick Belk and Martin Fowler hold my tech safety net.

Questions? Send me a message by mailing me at kate [dot] brussels [at] yahoo [dot] com.

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Thu, 7 June 2012

John Milton and Paradise Lost - Five Great Epic PoemsYou've Never Read

The epic continues into the 17th century, when John Milton wrote about Hell in Paradise Lost, and Lucifer's escape from Hell to wreak vengeance on the vengeful god who'd sent him there, by seducing and destroying God's favourite creation. That would be us. Playing fast and loose with the details of the Book of Genesis, Milton rewrote the Fall of Man as really nothing to do with man's destiny at all, but as part of the eternal battle between good and evil. For those who like their religion realigned now and then.

Direct download: John_Milton_and_Paradise_Lost_-_Five_Great_Epic_Poems.mp3
Category:fantastical -- posted at: 11:30 PM

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