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machine_dove) wrote2004-12-07 04:53 pm
machine_dove) wrote2004-12-07 04:53 pm
There's no accounting for taste
While trying to track down the other novels in Sherri Tepper's fantastic True Game series (this ain't like any first novel I've ever read, let me tell you!), I came across the following comment:
Since she's gotten to be a 'serious author' she's gotten so D----d preachy and didactic, always grinding one axe or another. Her later stuff has been a real disappointment; I can't even read it. I personally believe she's wasting her obviously great talents.
I labored through her some of her later stuff out of loyalty, but bogged down in Sideshow. (incidentally it's genetically impossible to have conjoined male and female twins.)
Yes, the great master Robert Heinlein, preached; but he got away with it by putting his sermons in the mouths of memorable characters-- admittedly all alter egos of Robert Heinlein. His sermons are art. Tepper's are merely dogmatic PC rant and cant.
Dear god almighty. Emphasis mine, of course. I think I'll leave it at that, otherwise I'm going to end up pissing a lot of people off. Although I would like to say that even Ayn Rand writes a better "sermon as art" than Heinlein, all 5,431,792 pages of them (per book).
Since she's gotten to be a 'serious author' she's gotten so D----d preachy and didactic, always grinding one axe or another. Her later stuff has been a real disappointment; I can't even read it. I personally believe she's wasting her obviously great talents.
I labored through her some of her later stuff out of loyalty, but bogged down in Sideshow. (incidentally it's genetically impossible to have conjoined male and female twins.)
Yes, the great master Robert Heinlein, preached; but he got away with it by putting his sermons in the mouths of memorable characters-- admittedly all alter egos of Robert Heinlein. His sermons are art. Tepper's are merely dogmatic PC rant and cant.
Dear god almighty. Emphasis mine, of course. I think I'll leave it at that, otherwise I'm going to end up pissing a lot of people off. Although I would like to say that even Ayn Rand writes a better "sermon as art" than Heinlein, all 5,431,792 pages of them (per book).
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...Even if her pictures don't.
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^^ And I think you may be right. 'cause he seriously rocked.
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I think the problem I have with Heinlein is that I was never an adolescent male. ^_^
(reposting this because it looked like I was protesting icon luv, which is patently insane. ^_^)
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...^^; anyways, as my email I just sent you said, Citizen of the Galaxy was one of if not the best middle-school book EVER.