It is noted that Botticelli's best works were a series of pieces that depicted nymphs and gods frolliking nude, or very sensual paintings of psedo christian themes.
Later his painting took on a dark and severe estetic christian overtone as he became convinced that his early works were somewhat immoral.
I see some of the same thing in OSC in that his early work like Ender's game seems more secular but increasingly his recent work has more of a religious moral flavor.
Like Botticelli I think that this will make OSC fans in the future call his early work his finest and this period one of religious reversion.
Not that his writting is not good now, but the choice to make his religous values obiquitous can be heavy handed after a time.
BC
Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
Dude, I think the word is "ubiquitous." If that is what you meant, I don't entirely agree, BTW.
Perhaps more overt would be a better way of phrasing it.
In the Alvin series, religion only comes up to the degree that the characters would have experienced it in their lives.
In the Women of Genesis series, religion is much more in the forefront. The characters were the biblical matriarchs and patriarchs, after all. Still, the books are very interesting reads. Same with "Stone Tables." They are fictionalized versions of Biblical stories.
The Homecoming series competely flies in the face of your thesis. It takes themes from a strictly religious book, and presents them in an entirely secular universe.
[ May 06, 2004, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: Sweet William ]
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Yet, if you compare those works to say...Hart's Hope, Bean Counter might just have something.
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