Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site hyper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!hyper!brust From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Wounded Land series Message-ID: <217@hyper.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 13:19:43 EDT Article-I.D.: hyper.217 Posted: Thu Jun 27 13:19:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 01:47:39 EDT References: <2261@topaz.ARPA> <225@luke.UUCP> Organization: Network Systems Corp., Mpls., Mn. Lines: 21 > > The biggest problem I have with Donaldson's dual trilogy (other than the > depressing, frustrating, aggravating nature of the main character) is > his use of language. I don't object to being forced to look up an > occasional new word or twenty. But GIVE ME A BREAK. Donaldson seems to > be incapable of writing two pages without introducing a word that nobody > I know has ever heard of! I have discussed his works with several > friends over the past few years. Many of us have indeed read them all > the way through. And all feel the same way about the words. > And when you DO look up the words, you find that his usage is--more often then not--wrong. He is very aware of the sound of the words--the poetry of the language, and this is good. But he seems willing to sacrifice the meaning of the words in order to acheive this poetry, and, since I happen to know what at least some of them mean, and this is a constant source of frustration to me. -- SKZB