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From: jimb@ISM780B.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: MacAvoy's TEA WITH THE BLACK DRAGON
Message-ID: <27800016@ISM780B.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 14:35:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 14:35:00 1985
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Nf-From: ISM780B!jimb    Sep 23 14:35:00 1985


I can explain my feelings about TWTBD best by metaphor.  It's a nice,
delicate, fragile story, full of subtleties that compare to most fantasy
(which I also like) the way that a soap bubble compares to a baseball or
Szechuan cuisine compares to steak and potatoes.

So much writing, even by fairly decent writers, stoops to bashing the gentle
reader over the head.  In TEA, MacAvoy is so understated without being
boring.  It's also a story that plays nicely with ambiguities of both plot
and character instead of being cut-and-dried.

"Concerning matters of taste, there is no disputing." -- Cicero (?)

Obviously, Cicero (or whoever) lived before the days of the net.


      -- Look, there's the pie in the sky now! --
      Jim Brunet


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