Dragaera

Brust books you didn't like (was: Where did you begin?)

Thu Dec 19 20:13:23 PST 2002

definitely what wrote:
> David Goldfarb writes:
>   _To Reign in Hell_, which was an exercise in clever retconning but
> which   struck me (as an atheist) as somewhat pointless.
>
> I don't see why religion would have anything to do with it... it's a
> classic tale of good versus evil, retold.  I doubt a Christian would
> find TRiH more valuable due to its characters.

I must have missed something then. To me it would have a greater impact to
someone whom associates preconceived notions of characters with those same
names.

It's more about factions that are neither distinctly good or evil than were
'good' and 'evil' to me.