I'd disagree with these selections, of the ones I've read. I don't think they're as good as comparable selections on the list in terms of theme, mood, or plot. No disrespect to the authors. I think Goldstein has better work than Red Magician, for example. Rats & Gargoyles was incomprehensible to me. Vurt was merely clever. Late era Powers is too long and ponderous. The Stand...
more I'd disagree with these selections, of the ones I've read. I don't think they're as good as comparable selections on the list in terms of theme, mood, or plot. No disrespect to the authors. I think Goldstein has better work than Red Magician, for example. Rats & Gargoyles was incomprehensible to me. Vurt was merely clever. Late era Powers is too long and ponderous. The Stand is great soap opera entertainment, but not a great novel. I know that you are aware of this, but just for the record, note that the second published version of John Fowles's THE MAGUS was NOT merely the earlier, uncut version (as is true of, say, Stephen King's THE STAND or Heinlein's STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.) Fowles did an amazing and almost unprecedented thing; he took a book he'd published years before -- to some acclaim and strong sales -- and REWROTE elements of it. He improved it. (Especially, he said, the erotic elements that he felt he'd been too timid with the first time.)
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