Would you kindly help me find a book?
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October 30th, 2010
A friend of mine is looking for fictional books that deal with the general theme or motif of fallen angels or the Biblical myth of the Fall. Anyone want to help a brotha out?
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Well… there’s “Paradise Lost” which might not be your style… I’m sure there’s some more recent novel-type-novels, if you just look around, . Mainly I was just feeling cheeky and wanted to mention that your highlighting of the word “fictional” seemed a little redundant.
@Smashley, well, technically, a theological analysis or “history of fallen angel mythology” book would be considered non-fiction. And those sorts of things are exactly what I wasn’t looking for.
J.R. Ward has The Fallen Angels series. It’s more of a paranormal romance though.
Richelle Mead has the Georgina Kincaid series. It’s an urban fantasy series about a succubus but talks about several other things, including fallen angels. One angel even falls in one of the books and it talks about what happens when she fell.
Not a “fictional” book, sorry but I don’t know any, but this fascinating book (a copy of which I own) is worthy of a mention.
There is also the fantasy series The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper which is a wonderful series about the conflict between the dark and the light based on the Mabinogion but it does not specifically reference Lucifer.
@lloydbird, that will actually work. Thanks.
@janbb, cool, thank you.
@everyone else, suggestions have been taken and passed on to my friend. She is well pleased. Thank you.
For humor, this is my absolute favorite.
Not so much ‘fallen’ as sauntered vaguely downward.
@Blueroses, that’s great! I’ll check that one out for myself :-)
@lillycoyote, your wiki-fu is stronger than mine, apparently. I was looking all over wikipedia for an article like that and couldn’t find it. Thanks!
Found this new book while searching for a very beautiful fictional account written by a late 19th, early 20th c British/Scottish writer will keep looking for that book as I want to find it again.
Gorge D MacDonald’sLilith is too far off the mark but relates
@anartist, cool. I’m gonna read Lilith, myself, I think. Thank you.
@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Make sure check out the link at the bottom of the wickipedia page “Satan in Popular culture” it will give you even more but you might have to pick through those pretty carefully because in some of them the “devil” is more of an icon than anything else, I guess you could call it. And though you asked for novels, one of my favorited movies of all time is Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire who after an eternity of looking after humans decides to give up his “anglehood” and become mortal to expericience life. I don’t know if your friend would be intersted in something like that. It’s a great film though, and a great love story too actually, worth watching just because it’s just so wonderful.
@lillycoyote, honestly, I don’t know what she’s looking for, specifically. She just said something on facebook like “i need a new book!” I felt like being helpful, so I asked her what genre, and she said she keeps stumbling across books about fallen angels and she really enjoys them. That’s all I have to work with, but she liked the suggestions thus far. Wings of Desire looks interesting, though. I appreciate any suggestions, really.
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You might also suggest to your friend that she use Amazon.com. Sometimes when I finish a book that I enjoyed, specially if it in some specific “genre” category I look it up, the book I just finished, on Amazon and check out the “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” links. I was on this “alternate history” kick a few years ago and found a couple of other books I liked that way. I genally just kind use amazon as a database and reference. If I find a book that way I usually pick it up locally
The Magician’s Nephew /wiki/The_Magician%27s_Nephew by C.S. Lewis, see interpretation
http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Magician%27s_Nephew
plague it won’t un-screw-up!!!
screwed up in last answer
If any one out there can find my lost treasure [see above] please let me know
I second I, Lucifer – I love that book. Anyone who appreciates the small things in life will most likely appreciate that book.
In the film category, all four of the movies of Terrence Malik deal with a fall from grace or loss of paradise as a major theme:
Badlands (1973)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The New World (2005)
I do like Good Omens and @Blueroses’ apt description of it.
Lord of the Flies can be read as a story of Eden and The Fall.
Damn… I didn’t expect this many replies. I’ve taken everything listed here to heart, and I appreciate all these suggestions.
@Jeruba, I love Badlands!
@RealEyesRealizeRealLies, why do you say Screwtape is nonfiction? It’s a narrative novel…. happens to be among my favorites too.
‘twas but a scribble in the sands of humor my friend… a scribble in the sand.
I liked “The Laughing Jesus”, you can look at it as fiction or truth. I chose the latter.
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a great suggestion.
I think that the question you might want to ask your friend is if she wants to read books that take an anti-religion or pro-religion stance. The His Dark Materials series I mentioned is an example of the anti-religion type, whereas Screwtape Letters is pro-religion. She may not care one way or the other, but if she does have a preference, it would be food to know.
@crisw, she has no preference. She just enjoys the general theme.
There is the Satanic Bible written by Anton LaVey in 1969. I visited his home in San Francisco years ago. His house was painted entirely black, inside and out.
Mark Train’s The Mysterious Stranger treats this theme, if I recall correctly. However, I was a little shocked on reading it a few years back to realize that one of our greatest writers and humorists was capable of penning such a dull, flat, and rambling narrative; or rather, not that he had written so unremarkably but that this work hasn’t just been quietly buried. Most authors have lesser works that deserve to be mercifully forgotten.
@Jeruba, I take it you mean Twain? Interesting… I had never heard of it before. Well, we can’t all be perfect.
Yikes, I guess I was on the wrong track! Yes, Twain. Sorry.
When I was a youngster, conventional playing cards were forbidden in our house for religious reasons, but we sure played a lot of “Authors” (the rules being essentially those of “Go Fish”). The four cards for Mark Twain were Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, and The Mysterious Stranger. The title of the latter intrigued me, and I looked forward to reading it, but I didn’t until about 5 years ago, even though over time I’d read most of his other work. That one was certainly a disappointment.
Bad Twain? Nooooooo!!!!!!! I am now happy to say I never read The Mysterious Stranger.
Mark Twain is in my list Top Five People Who Have Lived on Earth.
Maybe Top Two!
You should really read The Kite Runner. Its not really my type of book since im more into
fantasy but I have read it and its beautiful and amazing.
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