From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: The Best Introduction To The Mountains
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:24:57 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Adam Stephanides wrote:

> And Terry Brooks again!  First Pullman praises him, then Wolfe criticizes
> his detractors.  I've never read him, but can it be that his bad reputation
> is not entirely deserved?

No.  Wolfe isn't saying Brooks is good.  He's criticizing those who slam
Brooks for being a Tolkien ripoff.  Wolfe wants more Tolkien ripoffs and
claims to be a Tolkien ripoff himself.  

It's OK to slam Brooks for being bad, just don't slam him for trying to
write the kind of books that Wolfe wants to read.

-Rostrum