The Best Introduction To The Mountains

James Jordan · 02 Jan 2002, 21:51 · from urth-v0031.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at home.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: The Best Introduction To The Mountains
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 15:51:06 -0600
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At 03:24 PM 1/2/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Adam Stephanides wrote:
>
> > And Terry Brooks again!  First Pullman praises him, then Wolfe criticiz=
es
> > his detractors.  I've never read him, but can it be that his bad reputa=
tion
> > is not entirely deserved?
>
>No.  Wolfe isn't saying Brooks is good.  He's criticizing those who slam
>Brooks for being a Tolkien ripoff.  Wolfe wants more Tolkien ripoffs and
>claims to be a Tolkien ripoff himself.
>
>It's OK to slam Brooks for being bad, just don't slam him for trying to
>write the kind of books that Wolfe wants to read.
>
>-Rostrum

Wolfe did have some nice things to say about Stephen Lawhead, to me, a few=20
years ago. I imagine he considers Lawhead to be carrying the Tolkein torch=20
pretty well. Never read Lawhead myself.

Nutria

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