gek@ihuxa.UUCP (10/07/83)
Oh, come now, nominating SILVERLOCK as a great work?! I realize that Pournelle and other very admirable authors swear by this book, but I guess nobody's perfect... The work is derivative and poorly developed. If Meyers' purpose was to write a travelogue, it is a diluted and weakly executed rip-off of Gulliver's Travels (imitation is the sincerest form of flattery only if competently done). If Meyers was trying to show a growth of Silverlock's character, he stopped writing the book to soon; read Panshin's Rite of Passage for a proper treatment. Pournelle and Niven's Inferno show Meyers-squared how to emulate a great work and still be a creditable work in its own right. To be fair, let me state my own nomination so as to let others flame me: Stephen Donaldson's two Thomas Covenant series are great (take that!). Glenn Kapetansky ihnp4!gek
kechkayl@pur-ee.UUCP (10/10/83)
#R:ihuxa:-30000:ecn-ee:14400001:000:578 ecn-ee!kechkayl Oct 9 10:12:00 1983 Fine, put on your asbestos garments, here it comes! <* FLAME ON *> The Thomas Covenant series GREAT??? I have never read such an overly verbose, dry, BORING, series in all my life! I will admit that the overall idea was interesting, but it really did NOT need SIX books to put the points across. The six books would have been much better if Donaldson had written them, sat down and thought about them, and then edited about 1/2 of it out! <* FLAME OFF *> Sorry about that, but I really hated Thomas Covenant. He shares my name . . . . Thomas Ruschak
myers@uwvax.ARPA (Jeff Myers) (10/11/83)
We've been thru the trashing and defense of the Covenant trilogies before... Let's see if history won't repeat itself, just this once...
jj@rabbit.UUCP (10/12/83)
Glenn... Reading Silverlock requires a sense of the absurd, and a feeling for obscure humor. Perhaps you just didn't read it in the right spirit? Sorry, but you just walked all over one of my favorite books. Lucius aka. -- O o From the pyrolagnic keyboard of ~ rabbit!jj -v-v- \^_^/