<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>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.<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@broggs.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, September 22, 2009 5:51:48 PM<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis<br></font><br>
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:28:55PM -0400, <a ymailto="mailto:brunians@brunians.org" href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a> wrote:<br>> Orson Scott Card has written some very interesting Mormon based stuff.<br><br>I find his style too much Perelandra and Anthem and not enough Middle<br>Earth and Brave New World. I love Wolfe and Chesterton and Tolkien<br>and ... precicely because while the author's beliefs are there in all<br>of them, there is more than just a didactic exercise in the latter.<br><br>Jeff<br><br>-- <br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over <br> the man who cannot read them."<br> -- Mark Twain<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div></div>
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