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From: smuga@mtuxo.UUCP (j.smuga)
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Subject: Stephen Cosgrove (HATE HATE HATE)
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 12:29:12 EDT
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You think He-Man is prissy? You think Care Bears are insipid?  
Perhaps you have overlooked (ugh!shudder) Cosgrove - he hasn't
received quite the exposure they've gotten.  Nothing on the boob
tube (yet) and no cuddly toys.  The man writes books, children's
books, all about *adorable* fantasy creatures, but with no sense
of mystery, and each one ends with a pat little moral in (wretched)
verse.To make things worse, the man has no feel for the English
language; he writes poorly.  Each little book sets up a straw man
as a problem and then neatly knocks it down (e.g. Trafalgar True
is sad because the little Kith and Kin won't share, so they decide
to share and he is happy again; Flutterby doesn't know what she
is, so she decides to be herself).  Sounds harmless, doesn't it.
If only it didn't try to masquerade as children's literature.