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From: mte@busch.UUCP (Moshe Eliovson)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Mavin Manyshaped
Message-ID: <470@busch.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 17:39:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 17:39:46 1985
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In article <111@rtp47.UUCP>, throopw@rtp47.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
> I just bought and read the second of the Mavin Manyshaped novels.
> Recommended.  Sherri Tipper has a way of phrasing moral problems that is
> elegant and pleasing.  In the first book, it was explaining rape to a
> young boy.  In this one, it is an exposition of the victim/perpetrator
> rights problem.  All of this, and a "hard fantasy" adventure story too.

	I do not recommend the second book to Tepper's saga of Mavin
Manyshaped.  While the True Game Series is excellent- and the first book
interesting since it provides the story behind the legend we only encounter
briefly in her series the second book is filled with baby talk type stuff,
which I found annoying.  Also, the plot is evident from the beginning of
the book and is not terribly exciting, whereas in the first Mavin Manyshaped
novel Tepper still gave us some insight into the cunning of a shapeshifter.

> 
> Has anybody read "The Revenants"?  Is it as worthwhile as the True Game
> series?

	While it doesn't really compare with the true game series it is
still a worthwhile reading.  It is one of those macabre type books that
is intentionally confusing and mind warping as it deals heavily with 
Deities and artifacts.  I recommend it for Tepper fans.

	
			Moshe Eliovson
			{allegra, ihnp4}!we53!busch!mte



ps- sorry about my Silverberg/Rosenberg mix up everybody...