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Re: Book burning (was Re: Flag Burning)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:14:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> As to Donaldson.... well, I think everyone should read Donaldson once, to
> learn the lesson that a book can have all the elements of a great story, and
> still be boring as snot. I'm not entirely certain how he does it.
That's a *fantastic* summation. I read the various Chronicles in my early
twenties, but when I tried to reread them a few years later I couldn't do
it. One of Donaldson's greatests strengths is an obvious love of the
language, coupled with a better-than-average sense of verbal aesthetics. He
also should be acknowledged for the ability to take a deliberately
reprehensible character and transform him into a sympathetic figure. It's
just unfortunate that it takes him 3000 pages to do it.
Dave!
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| (...) <snip> (...) Terry Brooks should stop pretending to write good fiction, acknowledge that he writes marginal formula at best, and run with it. I don't mind some of his stuff, I just hate that some people are fooled into thinking it's quality (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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