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Tell Me Lies (Leisure Historical Romance) by Claudia Dain
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Asimov's Guide to the Bible : the Old and New Testaments by Isaac Asimov
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The magician : an adaptation from the Yiddish of I.L. Peretz by Uri Shulevitz
Libby's London Merchant & Miss Chartley's Guided Tour (Signet Regency Romance) by Carla Kelly
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So, I might well find other of her books fine in themselves. But I don't see myself reading her on the basis of the hate she exhibited in The Fresco.
One last thing- I can't regard an anti-clericalism that regards the Taliban and Catholicism as "pretty much the same thing" as anything but bigoted. Do we not regard those who think all Muslims are essentially like Bin Laden as bigoted? Moreover, much of anti-clericalism has a vicious history.
posted by gabriel at 12:13 am (EST) on Dec 4, 2006
I had nearly finished a return comment when I managed to disappear it (this internet is, in the words of the elephant's child, too buch for be). So I'm doing it again; if you got the first one, this is just a new batch of words on the original topic.
Well, to each his own--I'm not prepared to defend Fresco, certainly.
Tepper has written a number of Fresco-like books, in which she basically has nothing new to say in terms of fiction, but can't resist underlining her themes. She has also written some relatively light sf/fantasy: the Marianne books, the True Game books. Finally, she's written some big books, in which her literary skills match her themes: The Awakening, Grass, The Gate to Women's Country, her Stones book (possibly called Speaking with Stones)(if I go look these up I'll lose this comment again, so I won't).
But I suspect, based on your groups, that you won't like her themes, however well they are expressed. She's pro-women, anti-clerical (for her, the Taliban and the Catholic church are pretty much the same thing), pro-other-living things (from pets and plants to aliens, although she is suspicious of the way aliens can use humans), and pro-population control. And these ideas are pretty basic to her fiction.
Have I just wasted your time? I hope not.
posted by Sackler at 3:33 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2006
posted by gabriel at 5:18 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2006