smuga@mtuxo.UUCP (j.smuga) (05/23/85)
You think He-Man is prissy? You think Care Bears are insipid? Perhaps you have overlooked (ugh!shudder) Cosgrove - he hasn't received quite the exposure they've gotten. Nothing on the boob tube (yet) and no cuddly toys. The man writes books, children's books, all about *adorable* fantasy creatures, but with no sense of mystery, and each one ends with a pat little moral in (wretched) verse.To make things worse, the man has no feel for the English language; he writes poorly. Each little book sets up a straw man as a problem and then neatly knocks it down (e.g. Trafalgar True is sad because the little Kith and Kin won't share, so they decide to share and he is happy again; Flutterby doesn't know what she is, so she decides to be herself). Sounds harmless, doesn't it. If only it didn't try to masquerade as children's literature.
root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) (05/25/85)
> You think He-Man is prissy? You think Care Bears are insipid? > Perhaps you have overlooked (ugh!shudder) Cosgrove - he hasn't > received quite the exposure they've gotten. Nothing on the boob > tube (yet) and no cuddly toys. The man writes books, children's > books, all about *adorable* fantasy creatures, but with no sense > of mystery, and each one ends with a pat little moral in (wretched) > verse.To make things worse, the man has no feel for the English > language; he writes poorly.... Looks like its time for a good old-fashioned BOOK-BURNING! -- UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!trwatf!root - Lord Frith ARPA: trwatf!root@SEISMO "Oh yeh? Well I speak LOUD and I carry a BIGGER stick... and I use it too... *BONK*"