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11-20-2008, 04:14 PM
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Our Shakespeares and Miltons
I've kind of given up on that.
Sure SU, has written a novel, but I don't think he even qualifies as Mormon at this point. Neil Labute basically got booted out, and I dare say he is overrated. OSC scares the ants out of my pants. No, I will be satisfied with our Stephanie Meyerses. |
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11-20-2008, 05:11 PM
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Bloom says that great literature emanates from a "misreading" of a literary or religious tradition (it's important to recognize that he sees an estuary or no clear demarcation between those two traditions). This means that your Milton or Shakespeare may have to endure excommunication and being labeled an apostate. People think of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky as the great religious novlists; they wrestled with Christian theology as literary themes. Most people would see them as deeply spiritual artists whose works consciously rebelled against atheism and anti-Christianity. Yet Tolstoy's church excommunicated him and Dostoevsky was personal non grata in it.
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Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster Last edited by SeattleUte; 11-20-2008 at 05:23 PM. |
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11-20-2008, 05:24 PM
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OSC writes essentially YA fantasy adventure stories. Waters notes his ultra-conservativism. But does anyone foresee him ever being called as a GA?
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11-20-2008, 06:38 PM
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Robert Jordan was one of the pre-eminent fantasy epic authors, with his 10- or 11-volume Wheel of Time series, one of the great fantasy series of all time. He died while writing the long-awaited final volume, and Brandon Sanderson has been tapped to complete it for him. That's a HUGE deal for him, and it's likely going to vault him into OSC-type recognition. And I know you don't like OSC's politics (neither do I), but he's one of the pre-eminent science fiction authors out there. Yes, they're in the nerdy genres, but both Sanderson and OSC are (or soon will be) huge names within their genres. And both are outstanding writers.
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Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug |
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11-20-2008, 06:41 PM
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Shoot - my 10-year-old is reading an Isaac Asimov novel right now, and he's one of the SF greats. Now, if he started a Robert Heinlein book, I'd have to intervene. Those are a little too "adult" for him.
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Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug |
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11-20-2008, 08:05 PM
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Which of OSC's books is the one with the intelligent monkey?
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