JILES: I read the kind of fiction that takes me away to another world.
It cost me a lot of effort but working from Old Spanish gives you such a wonderful flavor of those times.īOOKS: What other kinds of fiction do you read? JILES: I read in Spanish as well and have been working on a translating the medieval epic poem of “ El Cid” from Old Spanish. I’ve grown to dislike “ Great Expectations” and parts of “ David Copperfield.” Some of his characters are so goody-goody they are too mushy to carry the weight of the narrative.īOOKS: Are there any authors you wish were better known? Over time, however, I have changed my mind about some of his books. He’s so endlessly fascinating, and gives us so many details of life from London and other places then. That librarian also put Carlos Castaneda’s “ Journey to Ixtlan” in the travel section. We were fascinated by it and tried to speak Newspeak. In our small town library in Missouri, the librarian accidentally put Orwell’s “ 1984” in the kid’s science fiction section.
BOOKS: When did you start reading science fiction?
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