WTF? That makes me feel a heck of a lot less charitable towards Bakker: I thought this thing was done and packed away with three books.
I gathered that he noodled with the first book for an order of magnitude more time than the second and third, and frankly I thought it showed through all too clearly. There were bits and pieces of the first book I quite liked, but when I picked up the second I dragged to a halt within a hundred pages. The narrative just didn't seem to be going anywhere.
Frankly, I'd rather read Erickson, and so I went back to his books. I'm not yet at the stage where I'll take the Bakker books to the used bookstore, but they're close and this news of budding Jordanism is not heartening... 8P
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Date: 2008-11-25 04:13 pm (UTC)WTF? That makes me feel a heck of a lot less charitable towards Bakker: I thought this thing was done and packed away with three books.
I gathered that he noodled with the first book for an order of magnitude more time than the second and third, and frankly I thought it showed through all too clearly. There were bits and pieces of the first book I quite liked, but when I picked up the second I dragged to a halt within a hundred pages. The narrative just didn't seem to be going anywhere.
Frankly, I'd rather read Erickson, and so I went back to his books. I'm not yet at the stage where I'll take the Bakker books to the used bookstore, but they're close and this news of budding Jordanism is not heartening... 8P