New thread idea...Writers i got into because of u2

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Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:49:39 EST

CS Lewis, I admit it...after reading u2 at the end of the world, i was
curious how macphisto and the "devil's" minion in the screwtape letters were
related, and as a result went on a mad search for screwtape...didn't find it
at first and read mere Christianity instead...after that i read screwtape
letters and was sold on him! i then discovered how great the narnia
chronicles really were,(didn't read them as a child) and i was impressed with
other books of his like perelandera and the great divorce as well.

James Joyce...i still haven't read ulysses..(i can't seem to find it
anywhere!) but i have read dubliners and portrait of a young man, very good
books and i probably would have never found them if i hadn't of been curious
about how Ulysses' nighttown related to the Achtung Baby concept

Oscar Wilde, funny thing is that my mom got me a copy of "the picture of
dorian gray" a few years ago, but I never bothered to read it until I got into
u2..excellent book that captured my imagination and got me thinking about
morality.

Madeleine L'Engle This connection is an indirect one, I got back into her
after i got into CS Lewis....as a little girl i was a big L'Engle( i loved the
wrinkle in time and the following books..i really identified with Meg) fan and
reading the chronicles of narnia I realized i still liked reading allegorical
fantasy..and as a young adult I am realizing her books mean a lot more than i
thought they did as a kid

Dante(Inferno)and Milton(Paradise Lost)...when I got interested in U2, I
started realizing maybe for the first time that I could read stuff that
incorporated religious beliefs and that it could still be imaginative and
thought provoking...and now researching how literature and music interact with
religious beliefs is one of my passions.

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