Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:30:23 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What I can't read
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>Steve Smith wrote:
>>
>> As to my own prejudices, I find Harlan Ellison to be the literary
>> equivalent of a finger down the throat, only a lot less pleasant.
>
>I prefer Harlan Ellison to David Brin,

Certainly styles & length of fiction are radically different.

>Tolkien to Eddings (Shannara);
Read Tolkien in the 1965 Ballantine editons, reread it once or twice, =
still have fond memories of it all.  Haven't read Eddings, have no =
interest.  Shannara I received as a galley and nearly through the book =
across the room when the Gandalf clone appeared, who Brooks had named =
Alanon.  Decided to stop for reasons of health, mine and the walls.

>also, C.J. Cherryh, Emma Bull and Jonathan Carroll

Carroll is a bizarre, delightful voice.  Certainly not for everyone's =
taste.

> to Spider Robinson
>(or his latest incarnations).

One good book: Stardance (atleast that's how I remember it0>

mjw
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