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Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> writes: It's probably also worth mentioning that several modern historians believe this was nowhere near as shocking as it sounds to moder…
07 Jul 2010, 01:58
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James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> writes: I agree for most of the series, but the explicit Christian parallels in _The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe_ are pretty blatantly obvi…
06 Jun 2010, 02:32
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Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> writes: By Tolkien's definition of allegory, which emphasizes authorial intention, unintentional allegory isn't allegory. But I cordially disl…
06 Jun 2010, 02:25
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Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> writes: I still love it.…
23 Mar 2010, 03:32
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Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> writes: To be fair, I should note that I read that book in complete isolation of the surrounding context, and a recent NYRSF contains a cogent argum…
23 Sep 2009, 00:04
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Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> writes: Yeah, I was going to say -- that's the first time I've ever heard anyone say anything positive about Ruth Plumly Thompson's Oz books. I'm n…
19 Jul 2009, 03:22
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Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> writes: I dunno, I found the movie an excellent parody of the book. The events of the movie weren't the events of the book, but the society portray…
07 Nov 2008, 00:06
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Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> writes: I adore Stephenson in general, but he's a very different writer than Wolfe. I've not read Anathem yet (I just got my copy last Friday…
16 Sep 2008, 04:32
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"Matthew King" <automatthew at gmail.com> writes: Er... well, I sort of see where you're getting that if I squint, but there's way, way more gory stuff out there, and I don't thin…
22 Jul 2008, 02:12
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Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> writes: The second Virga book is much better than the first, but it's still not up to _Lady of Mazes_.…
24 May 2008, 18:11
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Stuart Hamm <hammstu at sbcglobal.net> writes: I personally have not read it, but from having discussed SF quite a bit in other places, my estimate is that about 95% of the people…
14 May 2008, 00:50
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Pedro Pereira <domus_artemis at hotmail.com> writes: I'm not much of a fan of Baxter either, although so far I've only read him at short story length. What I've read has wooden c…
13 May 2008, 05:11
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"Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> writes: Another interesting direction to approach Delany is from the non-fiction side. His _About Writing_ was excellent. I consider _…
13 May 2008, 05:08
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brunians at brunians.org writes: Iron Council is by general consensus not the high point of that series. I liked both Perdido Street Station and The Scar in different ways. The …
13 May 2008, 05:02
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Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> writes: Ah, but see the Dust Bowl. Soil erosion has happened before in the US on a massive scale due to poor agricultural practices or use of …
16 Jul 2007, 16:30
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