Severian / Christ / Logos / Apocatastasis

John Watkins · 26 Nov 2008, 18:41 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:41:04 -0500
Subject: (urth) Severian / Christ / Logos / Apocatastasis
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I don't want to give you the wrong idea--it's not like the ideas in
Rowling are especially deep and fascinating (although apparently
there's some alchemy stuff which is pretty intricate if you really
examine it)--but the books are fun and quick reads, and the idea of an
fantasy epic bildungsroman which is also an English boardingschool
tale which is also a series of whodunits is pretty cool.

But still, it's brain candy compared to Wolfe.

On 11/26/08, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
> >> Harry Potter is. (which I've not read, though I expect my son will want me too in a few years. are they any good? I read a page and thought it dull language)
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> >I give Rowling an A for imagination and a C for style.  Some would
> >call the C generous.
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> I can hang with good ideas in poor form.
> Often, PKD's characters seem like cardboard cutouts, but the ideas blaze through.  Cripes, I just read all those Jean Auel books. Some great ideas and some terribly redundant writing.  I guess HP will be entertaining to read to my kid.
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