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⌈ Secret Post #2182 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Authors that follow really similar trends?

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, I don't believe that anyone here knows the man, but Victor Pelevin. All of his books are one book. There're just no differences between them. It's like a very, very long philosophical monologue where characters don't matter, plots don't matter all that much, relationship don't matter at all.

Then I do think that C.S. Lewis has some ideas he's slightly obsessed with (thus, in Space Trilogy he continuously explains the idea of limiting oneself deliberately when given a source of unlimited pleasure - take the scene with Ransom and the fruit on Perelandra, for example; then there's this image of earthly Christ, of course, which appears in both Ransom and Aslan).

And Garcia Marquez seems to think that sex looks hilariously funny :D

Re: Authors that follow really similar trends?

[(Anonymous)]

that's just because CS Lewis is kind of just reiterating the same Christian allegory over and over (and also he's kind of a bad writer) (yeah i said it)

Re: Authors that follow really similar trends?

[(Anonymous)]

I personally love him anyway, although I'm an agnostic atheist, but to each his own, of course.

Do you have any particular reasons for thinking that he's a bad writer, however? Or is it just the general impression?

Re: Authors that follow really similar trends?

[(Anonymous)]

Partly because he does seem to be much more simplistic in the way that his religion informs his writing - so much of his fiction is just straight-up Christian allegory. It's not the religious themes as such (although I'm not a believer, there are plenty of strongly religious writers I really like) but the way that he's so straightforwardly allegorical about it which I find kind of limiting. Other than that, I just tend to find him kind of annoying and... uh... smug, maybe? I don't know, if you like him, no sweat, to each their own. He's just someone who's never really impressed me.

Re: Authors that follow really similar trends?

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

Have you ever read 'Til We Have Faces? It's the only Lewis book I can stand, because it actually isn't unequivocally another statement on Christianity. It's really quite lovely.

Re: Authors that follow really similar trends?

[(Anonymous)]

I have not, and it's possible that it is decent. There's another book of his - A Grief Observed - which I have been meaning to read but have not read, and which I have heard, from people whom I trust, similarly gets outside of Lewis' usual mode because it's an intensely personal reflection on grief, and is apparently quite good.

It's certainly possible that Lewis wrote some things that were good, he was unquestionably a talented, intelligent man - it's just that, to me, the mode in which he was writing most of his work is something that I find totally disagreeable. Like I said, it's not even the fact that he's talking about Christianity, it's that he's straightforwardly allegorical and lacking insight.

Re: Authors that follow really similar trends?

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I only read one Pelevin book (Buddha's Little Finger), because either you write a book like that and write total crap otherwise, or it is ALL YOU WRITE.

I love Garcia Marquez, but that is definitely a hilarious motif of his. I literally do not own a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude just because I'm afraid I'm gonna write all sorts of weird crossovers and fusions of it with other mediums that no one will read.