[boc-l] I'm psyched

[Michael Holmes]

On 04/08/2016 09:57, strobridge jill via boc-l wrote:
>
> Oh.  I had mercifully forgotten this book and wish you hadn't reminded 
> me.   This is of course strictly IMO (my own opinion) and others may 
> well choose to hold a differing view but as far as I am concerned this 
> is the nastiest, most unpleasant book I have ever come across.   I 
> read some of it - most of it in the end I guess and very much wished I 
> hadn't.  I'm not entirely sure what he intended - some catharsis 
> perhaps or understanding, who knows but I have never since and will 
> never read another book written by him.
>
>
I get why Jill thinks this way about the book, though the "not another 
book" comment seems to me to misunderstand the craft of writing. None of 
Silverberg's other books are like Dying Inside and I'm sure Jill would 
find some, such as Nightwings, quite lyrical.

I'd say Dying Inside is the most mature book on telepathy that I've ever 
read, and one of the greats of SF. It really ought to be a play or a movie.

FoFP
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ispnet.net/pipermail/boc-l/attachments/20160804/2581db68/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: not available
URL: <http://lists.ispnet.net/pipermail/boc-l/attachments/20160804/2581db68/attachment.ksh>