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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:15:00 -0000, "westprog"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Steve Hayes"  wrote in message   
   >> He'd do better trying to improve his own writing than denigrating that of   
   >> other people. C.S. Lewis was a far better literary critic than Pullman,   
   >and I   
   >> suspect would have seen some merit in Pullman's work.   
   >   
   >It seems a bit unfair to criticise Lewis for writing religious propaganda,   
   >when Pullman's major work is largely anti-religious propaganda. That doesn't   
   >reflect on the merits of his writing, just his position as a critic.   
      
   If his books were significantly better than Lewis's, it might look less like   
   sour grapes, but they are not. So I think his position as writer and critic   
   are interrelated. He accuses Lewis of being preachy, but is far more preachy   
   in his books.   
      
      
      
      
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