[boc-l] Fwd: Re: I'm psyched

[strobridge jill]

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From: Michael Holmes <M.Holmes at ed.ac.uk>
Date: 04/08/2016 10:05 (GMT+00:00)
To: strobridge jill <jill.strobridge at blueyonder.co.uk>, BOC / Hawkwind
Discussion List <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>
Subject: Re: [boc-l] I'm psyched


meant to send it to the list!       Yes I read Nightwings before I read Dying
Inside and I don't deny the capability or craft of his creative writing in the
latter book which is undeniably open and forthright and may even be based on
reality. Nonetheless knowing this I have no wish to revisit him.


Jill


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>     On 04/08/2016 09:57, strobridge jill via boc-l wrote:
> 
>         > > 
> >         Oh.  I had mercifully forgotten this book and wish you hadn't
> > reminded me.   This is of course strictly IMO (my own opinion) and others
> > may well choose to hold a differing view but as far as I am concerned this
> > is the nastiest, most unpleasant book I have ever come across.   I read some
> > of it - most of it in the end I guess and very much wished I hadn't.  I'm
> > not entirely sure what he intended - some catharsis perhaps or
> > understanding, who knows but I have never since and will never read another
> > book written by him.  
> > 
> > 
> >     > I get why Jill thinks this way about the book, though the "not another
> >     > book" comment seems to me to misunderstand the craft of writing. None
> >     > of Silverberg's other books are like Dying Inside and I'm sure Jill
> >     > would find some, such as Nightwings, quite lyrical.
> 
>     I'd say Dying Inside is the most mature book on telepathy that I've ever
> read, and one of the greats of SF. It really ought to be a play or a movie.
> 
>     FoFP
> 


 
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