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Originally Posted by khalleron
Non-familiarity breeds contempt?
Why the disdain from people who never read her or have any idea of her influence and legacy?
The more you talk about stuff you don't know, the more foolish you appear. Time to get off that merry-go-round and go read a book.
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Uh, I've read her.
The Earthsea trilogy was readable and fun. (The rest of the series... Nope. It's best to treat it as a trilogy. Just as DUNE is best treated as a solo novel.
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I enjoyed Katherine Kurtz, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Brian Daley, and Robert Don Hughes more but she is a serviceable modern fantasy writer. Not a top 20 but okay.
Her SF I found turgid and didactic, frankly. A bit pretentious and full of itself.
(Oddly enough, I found the last two traits in OrsonScott Card books, too. Makes the books read more like manifestos than entertainment.)
She gets a lot of credit as an early practitioner of "soft SF" but I generally found Chad Oliver and Octavia Butler better at it.
So in my case at least it's not lack of familiarity.
I just don't think she has enough standing to get away with that load of bulloney she is trying to sell.