Jeg synes han er en tulling som skriver dårlige bøker, og jeg er uenig i hans "moralske" og politiske standpunkter, men jeg hater ham ikke. Hat er slikt et voldsomt uttrykk...
EDIT:
http://www.inchoatus.com/Critical%20Ess ... 20Rant.htm
Eksempel på hvorfor jeg synes han er en tulling...
"The essential attributes of a novel are: Theme, Plot, Characterization. These are not the essential attributes of a fantasy book. The essential attribute that dominates a fantasy is its mystical or magical aspects."
- TG
EDIT 2: Fra samme sted:
"A novel can certainly contain elements of fantasy, just as it can contain romance, adventure, political intrigue, and mystery, but containing elements of romance or fantasy does not make a book a romance or a fantasy if those elements are not the essential elements of the book -if they are not its defining characteristic.
Fantasy usually takes conventional values as a given. For example, the evil being battled is commonly a dark force that wishes to do evil- without any reason beyond that it is evil.
My books are novels that deal in important human themes involving the faculty of reason. I tell these stories through heroic characters.
The men who flew airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon had heroes. They did not believe that what they were doing was evil; they believed they were doing good. Why were they willing to die in order to kill indiscriminately? Why did they believe that what they were doing was good? What constituted evil in their minds? Who were their heroes?
Why are my heroes different than the heroes of people like that? To answer those sorts of questions requires that I convey intellectual information.
Those are the kinds of abstract concepts I write about which are absent from fantasy, as such. I have no desire to tell simplistic stories of good and evil driven by mysticism and magic. My novels instead, involve the nature of and projection of values."
- TG
EDIT 3: Fortsatt samme sted, denne gangen de EKTE definisjonene av romantikk og naturalisme:
"Naturalism is a movement in fiction begun in France in the latter half of the 19th century. Revolting against the subjectivism and imaginative escapism that seemed to characterize the romantic school, the naturalist writers were influenced by the biological theories of Darwin and the social and economic determinism of Taine and Marx. The new movement sought to depict human society and the lives of the men and women who compose it as objectively and truthfully as he subject matter of science is handled."
"Romanticism is commonly defined as a term applied to the movement in literature and the arts that began in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. In emphasizing the imagination and emotions over intellect and reason, the movement was a reaction against neoclassicism."