Amazon occasionally sends me e-mails about books and such things they think I will like based on previous purchases and so forth. Today I recieved an e-mail about the "War of Souls" triology.
Now, I've done a pass on the whole "War of Souls" triology because...well, it's DragonLance. The first triology was good reading, back when I was in early high school, but most of the books put out by TSR that bore the DragonLance name sucked big. I know because I purchased and read them all until a number of years ago when it just wasn't worth the expenditure any more (in time or money).
Plus, Tracy Hickman is an arrogant fundamentalist who believes non-Christians are not just deluded, but broken people with serious mental problems, and said so to my face a few years ago. I wish I still had the e-mails or the "Boycott Tracy Hickman" webpage I had quoted them on, but all are long lost to the ethers of cyberspace at this point. Honestly, I don't hate the guy, but I'll be damned if I'm ever going to support another thing with his name on it or with his hand in the work given that treatment.
In his defense, he did half-apologize, that is, he later stated he didn't believe we should focus on our differences but on our similarities. Which isn't really an apology; it's shitting on someone then trying to pretend it isn't a big deal you just shit on them: "You're a a broken, disturbed man because you aren't a Christian, but can't we just get along anyways, you pathetic thing?"
Anyways, the reviews on the product this time around made me stop and consider actually reading the series...and now I realize I won't, even though I am intrigued by the positive non-fanboy reviews. The memory of that whole conversation and the condescending bigotry it involved just talked me out of the possibility. Ah well.
Now, I've done a pass on the whole "War of Souls" triology because...well, it's DragonLance. The first triology was good reading, back when I was in early high school, but most of the books put out by TSR that bore the DragonLance name sucked big. I know because I purchased and read them all until a number of years ago when it just wasn't worth the expenditure any more (in time or money).
Plus, Tracy Hickman is an arrogant fundamentalist who believes non-Christians are not just deluded, but broken people with serious mental problems, and said so to my face a few years ago. I wish I still had the e-mails or the "Boycott Tracy Hickman" webpage I had quoted them on, but all are long lost to the ethers of cyberspace at this point. Honestly, I don't hate the guy, but I'll be damned if I'm ever going to support another thing with his name on it or with his hand in the work given that treatment.
In his defense, he did half-apologize, that is, he later stated he didn't believe we should focus on our differences but on our similarities. Which isn't really an apology; it's shitting on someone then trying to pretend it isn't a big deal you just shit on them: "You're a a broken, disturbed man because you aren't a Christian, but can't we just get along anyways, you pathetic thing?"
Anyways, the reviews on the product this time around made me stop and consider actually reading the series...and now I realize I won't, even though I am intrigued by the positive non-fanboy reviews. The memory of that whole conversation and the condescending bigotry it involved just talked me out of the possibility. Ah well.
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