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A question re: Beginning Fantasy for Youth

Mon Nov 25 18:51:24 PST 2002

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 09:12 PM, definitely what wrote:

> Chris Turkel writes:
>   Did anybody mention the Alvin maker books? Might be too 'deep' for a
>   young teenager but maybe someone would like to try them.
>
> I don't know about 'deep', but i read the first two and had a hard
> time swallowing the two-dimensional bad guys who were just so evil and
> if you didn't notice how evil they were why the author would make sure
> to LET YOU KNOW AGAIN AND AGAIN and who would want to be mean to this
> magical, sweet boy?  Feh.
>
I enjoyed the books but there is a distinct lack of bad guys besides 
some kind of ever present Unmaker. These books are a straight Mormon 
allegory, Card says.
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