I bought one of his books several years back because it was being touted as genius (and it was very innovative, to be honest), but it was emphatically not my thing. Then I read his "Firefly" essay and thought it might be satire (it wasn't).
(Yikes, I almost bought a book by that Lamplighter woman yesterday. But I resisted because it was, if I'm not mistaken, all about Miranda going to rescue a sympathetic Prospero, and I can't but think of Prospero as a pompous asshole, even before I realized he was a colonizer. Even before I did a paper on "Caliban's Hour.")
I kept trying to hint to the leader of my SF reading group that he wasn't, uh, all that nice (he was invited to join our online discussions) -- but I'm not a straightforward enough person -- my poor friend had to discover the Obama posts on his own before he stopped raving about/pimping Wright's writing. (I have since geared him towards Cat Valente. ^___^)
So many things are doing the confluence thing and agitating the hell out of me like you don't even understand. :-( I feel like something big and bad is going to happen and I want no part of it.
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Date: 2009-08-13 04:07 pm (UTC)From:(Yikes, I almost bought a book by that Lamplighter woman yesterday. But I resisted because it was, if I'm not mistaken, all about Miranda going to rescue a sympathetic Prospero, and I can't but think of Prospero as a pompous asshole, even before I realized he was a colonizer. Even before I did a paper on "Caliban's Hour.")
I kept trying to hint to the leader of my SF reading group that he wasn't, uh, all that nice (he was invited to join our online discussions) -- but I'm not a straightforward enough person -- my poor friend had to discover the Obama posts on his own before he stopped raving about/pimping Wright's writing. (I have since geared him towards Cat Valente. ^___^)
So many things are doing the confluence thing and agitating the hell out of me like you don't even understand. :-( I feel like something big and bad is going to happen and I want no part of it.