Generic Considerations

Nathan Spears · 09 Dec 2004, 10:15 · from 2004-December.txt.gz

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From: spearofsolomon at yahoo.com (Nathan Spears)
Date: Thu Dec  9 10:15:38 2004
Subject: (urth) Generic Considerations
In-Reply-To: <1f76173704120910067d6e341e at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20041209181535.9821.qmail at web50307.mail.yahoo.com>

> Agreed. One of the reasons Stephen R. Donaldson is loved and
> loathed by different readers is that he brought the true novelistic
> tradition into the "genre" of High Fantasy, and many readers didn't 
> want that.

The reason I loathe Donaldson is because I felt like I was going to be sick fifty
pages into the first book in the gap series.  I rarely stop reading a book, because
I don't think it's fair to form an opinion of a work without being fully aware of
it, but I put that book down pretty quickly.  I felt like I was reading loathsome
fan fiction, and I wouldn't really want to read anything that he wrote.  

Also the Gap book titles are sooooo bad.

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