Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis

Nathan Spears · 18 Dec 2009, 07:27 · from 2009-December.txt.gz

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From: spearofsolomon at yahoo.com (Nathan Spears)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:27:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis
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I don't think that Card became didactic until his later years.  I found Seventh Son to be much more The King Must Die than Atlas Shrugged.  I didn't know he was a Mormon when I read it, and even after I found out I can still enjoy it because it isn't a soapbox.




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From: Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth at broggs.org>
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Sent: Tue, September 22, 2009 5:51:48 PM
Subject: Re: (urth) Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:28:55PM -0400, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> Orson Scott Card has written some very interesting Mormon based stuff.

I find his style too much Perelandra and Anthem and not enough Middle
Earth and Brave New World.  I love Wolfe and Chesterton and Tolkien
and ... precicely because while the author's beliefs are there in all
of them, there is more than just a didactic exercise in the latter.

Jeff

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