Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted From: ted@usceast.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Jack Chalker Message-ID: <2088@usceast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 23:07:46 EDT Article-I.D.: usceast.2088 Posted: Mon Jul 9 23:07:46 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jul-84 01:27:23 EDT Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 23 The subject of Jack Chalker recently came up, and I would like to make an observation and see if anyone agrees with me. It seems to me that Chalker is perhaps the most callous writer I can think of with regards to his treatment of his characters. He never hesitates, and in fact seem to glee in putting them through the most radical of changes. His characters are lobotomized, changed in sex (both wholly and in part), brainwashed, transformed into animals , put into other bodies, stripped of their intelligence bit by bit and have their arms ripped off. ( I could go on). I read Chalker's books (some of them anyway) because he has good ideas and executes them well, but sometimes I find myself cringing slightly at the thought of starting another one. Am I alone? Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted 6536 Brookside Circle ...akgua!usceast!ted Columbia, SC 29206 ("Hid the bell with a blot, she did") --------------------------------------------------------------------------------