Ralph Wilson Huckabee <rhuckabee2177@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
>
> See Michael Moorcock's important and revealing essay, "Epic Pooh," for
You know, if you accuse Tolkien of juvenile simplicity (the simplicity I
could stomach, but "juvenile" really misses the point by a margin of
miles), it's best not to use Moorcock as your more mature and
intelligent source of prose. As for the title of that essay, the less
said the better.
Richard
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