Kip and others, thanks for helping me forgive myself for how much I
loved the TC trilogy when I was a teenager. I hated the sequel
trilogy -- was it that the books were not as good, or that I had
matured? Now I don't know.
In partial defense of the books -- with the protagonist/rapist and
the portentious overwroughtness and all -- it's Big Theme was that
the hero had to live with guilt and unworthiness, and everyone
hated him even though they needed his Special Powers to save them.
But beneath this crust of supposed tough-minded misanthropic
anti-heroic stuff, was really a gooey center of sentimental fantasy
magic with morals and lessons. The hero's crime is part of the faux
veneer of toughness.
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