It's certainly not poor taste, Katerina. I was a Tepper fan until she hit the "when good writers go insane" line. Even then, I think if you only read one of the later books, the fact that she's started seeing the world through a crack that's about half an inch wide wouldn't be as obvious.
Angel: You're lying. Gwen: I'm fibbing. It's lying, only classier.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Ginger - Jan 29, 2004 9:00:59 am PST #663 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Katerina Bee - Jan 29, 2004 9:02:21 am PST #664 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Thanks gang. I'm just having a low self esteem day, and reacted with inappropriate guilt. Must apply power of the mind to counteract its ill effects. Carry on.
erikaj - Jan 29, 2004 9:03:00 am PST #665 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
That happens to me all the time. Or this: "That was the nastiest thing I've read in my life. So I thought of you. D' you want it?"
Katerina Bee - Jan 29, 2004 9:04:19 am PST #666 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Erika! You got the SLUUUUT!
Micole - Jan 29, 2004 9:05:55 am PST #667 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
I love the Marianne books. And I've kept The Gate to Women's Country for the rewritten Greek plays and Beauty for the interwoven fairy tales, even though the deformation of story by ideology and ideology by story makes me wish in general that Tepper weren't even close to being on my side of any argument.
I mean, I don't think that homosexuality is bad, gender is an essential trait, or that the horror novel is causing the destruction of the environment, but Tepper and I are kind of both in the feminist-environmentalist-leftist area of the political map.
erikaj - Jan 29, 2004 9:06:02 am PST #668 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, yeah, the number of the beast...it's in my address, too. People laugh.
Betsy HP - Jan 29, 2004 9:07:46 am PST #669 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Tepper and I are kind of both in the feminist-environmentalist-leftist area of the political map.
Yes, and this is what pisses me off. I hate it when people on my side make me want to be a dittohead.
Deena - Jan 29, 2004 9:08:35 am PST #670 of 10002
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I loved Tepper early on, too, and I too hate it when people I like and admire think I'm smoking the monkey crack while I read. Thanks, KB, for the recommendations to the other books. I shall check them out of the library post haste.
I found the religious stuff more unweildy in Pullman's stuff than in C. S. Lewis, but I read Lewis as a child, and, you know, he's on my side. *g*
Betsy HP - Jan 29, 2004 9:08:56 am PST #671 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Totally off-topic:
Is Face A or Face B a more appropriate writing goddess?
I am torn between the ecstatic and the contemplative.
amyparker - Jan 29, 2004 9:09:06 am PST #672 of 10002
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Katerina, no, please don't take it as a diss on you.
I've tried four times to explain how my history affects my reading of her later work, and I'm not getting it down right. Maybe I'll try again later.