Ralph Wilson Huckabee wrote:
> David Damerell wrote:
>
>>Quoting Doug Freyburger <dfreybur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>>
>>>Are there books of his I should start with?
>>
>>No.
>>
>>No, that's not a cheap shot answer. It's one of those endless hack
fantasy
>>series that starts superficially interesting and turns into a bleeding
>>ulcer as your desire to see how it ends fights with the utter tedium of
>>the whole exercise.
>
>
> Given that juvenile simplicity is endemic to the granddaddy
> predecessor, Lord of the Rings, it should come as no surprise that
> derivative works fail similarly on almost every level as serious or
> interesting literature.
Odd how a large number of supposedly literate people disagree with
you, including the New York Times, who put Lord of the Rings at the
top of the list of great books of the 20th century.
>
> See Michael Moorcock's important and revealing essay, "Epic Pooh,"
Pfui.
For all I know, Moorcock was just jealous. It's for sure that he's
not as high-selling, nor as highly influential, nor as widely read and
appreciated, as Tolkien.
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