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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1859219" data-attributes="member: 812">Comments:DUNE: Yeah, it's really weird how people keep wanting to make Paul a hero. His story is TRAGIC, people! He turns into a DICTATOR! I've never noticed the crappiness of the writing -- could be that the ideas are so compelling to me that I ignore the prose -- though most of his other books I never made it through (The Lazarus Effect, The Jesus Incident (or something like that)). Dune is one of those rare genre books that's actually about something adults might find interesting to think about.THOMAS COVENANT: The books are reasonably well-written, and I don't think it was ever Donaldson's intent to create books that were easy (or even pleasant) to read. I don't object to writers tackling ugliness and asking us to look at evil, which is I think one of the things Donaldson tried to accomplish. I've read a variety of books and watched a number of movies about very unpleasant characters; far worse than poor old whiny Thomas. I doubt I'll ever read them again, and I didn't like them much when I read them, but I remember Donaldson with FAR more respect than an utter hack like Jordan. At least Donaldson's trying to grapple with something approximating actual emotional struggle. Jordan's just applying a word-hose to one page after another.In the words of Truman Capote: &quot;That's not writing, that's typing.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1859219, member: 812"] Comments: DUNE: Yeah, it's really weird how people keep wanting to make Paul a hero. His story is TRAGIC, people! He turns into a DICTATOR! I've never noticed the crappiness of the writing -- could be that the ideas are so compelling to me that I ignore the prose -- though most of his other books I never made it through (The Lazarus Effect, The Jesus Incident (or something like that)). [i]Dune[/i] is one of those rare genre books that's actually about something adults might find interesting to think about. THOMAS COVENANT: The books are reasonably well-written, and I don't think it was ever Donaldson's intent to create books that were easy (or even pleasant) to read. I don't object to writers tackling ugliness and asking us to look at evil, which is I think one of the things Donaldson tried to accomplish. I've read a variety of books and watched a number of movies about very unpleasant characters; far worse than poor old whiny Thomas. I doubt I'll ever read them again, and I didn't like them much when I read them, but I remember Donaldson with FAR more respect than an utter hack like Jordan. At least Donaldson's trying to grapple with something approximating actual emotional struggle. Jordan's just applying a word-hose to one page after another. In the words of Truman Capote: "That's not writing, that's typing." [/QUOTE]

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