Wild Monkshood wrote:
> Looking for themes or even plots in that mishmash probably is a
> waste of brain cells. Hell, better to pickle them in alcohol. All, IMHO.
No book should be pickled in alcohol - the pages disintegrate and render
the booze undrinkable. Better to pickle the authors in alcohol, though
from the evidence, they may have already made a start before commencing
writing...
Anyway, it's not true - there is a clear, overarching moral theme
through the "Prelude" and "Legends" trilogies, revisited time and again.
The books are clearly intended as a stark warning of the consequences of
forgetting to put a clause in your will to prevent your kids playing
with your cherished literary legacy...
A bit of an exaggeration - I'm not as vitriolicly down on them as some
(If the butlerian jihad trilogy hadn't pur****ted to be set in the
duniverse, with all the contradictions of the established history, I
might well have enjoyed it, the needlessly gruesome deaths every 20
pages notwithstanding), though I'd agree wholeheartedly that looking for
deeper meaning is like looking for the subtext in the ingredients list
on your cornflakes.
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