(urth) Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Fri Dec 18 06:59:51 PST 2009


Card's early short work, which mostly appeared in OMNI, was really, raelly
good. He is, at worst, readable.


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> I don't think that Card became didactic until his later years.  I found
> Seventh Son to be much more The King Must Die than Atlas Shrugged.  I
> didn't know he was a Mormon when I read it, and even after I found out I
> can still enjoy it because it isn't a soapbox.
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> From: Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth at broggs.org>
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> Subject: Re: (urth) Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis
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> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:28:55PM -0400, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> Orson Scott Card has written some very interesting Mormon based stuff.
>
> I find his style too much Perelandra and Anthem and not enough Middle
> Earth and Brave New World.  I love Wolfe and Chesterton and Tolkien
> and ... precicely because while the author's beliefs are there in all
> of them, there is more than just a didactic exercise in the latter.
>
> Jeff
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