Generic Considerations

Matthew Malthouse · 10 Dec 2004, 14:11 · from 2004-December.txt.gz

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From: matthew.malthouse at ntlworld.com (Matthew Malthouse)
Date: Fri Dec 10 14:11:25 2004
Subject: (urth) Generic Considerations
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At 18:15 09/12/2004, Nathan Spears wrote:
>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.

Did you ever pick it up again?  Or tried other of Donaldson's works?

"The Real Story" is a very disturbing book and I think an unfortunate 
introduction to the series.  Perhaps it might have been better done 
amalgamated into the second volume which at least would have given the 
reader some idea of why TRS is so utterly black.

But for all its darkness the redemptions of Morn, Angus and others wouldn't 
be possible without that beginning.

I was about to write that "Mordant's Need" (which I happen to have just 
re-read) is entirely different.  Well it is, but there is a congruence 
between Terisa's sometime vacancy and what brings her out of it and some of 
the reactions Morn has.

Matthew

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