Dragaera

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

Mark A Mandel mam at theworld.com
Fri Dec 20 14:42:25 PST 2002

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Mia McDavid wrote:

#yes.  In fact, I *do* read a lot of things that contain text or subtext
#I don't agree with.  (Yes, btw, the Great Divorce is one of Lewis' best
#things.) I just couldn't get past what I saw as snarky, conceited
#atheism in TRiH.  I didn't even get very far.  I may be all wrong.

I don't see how writing about God / the Creator / Yaveh in a way that
uses part of the Judeo-Christian (and Miltonic literary) tradition about
that character implies that one does not believe in g/God(s).

-- Mark A. Mandel