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Generally, it's dismaying to discover that someone whose work you respect holds worldviews that you disagree with. An example that many readers of HN will relate to is the one of Orson Scott-Card, whose books are pretty great, but who holds some pretty outdated views towards homosexuality*

*: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-becker/orson-scott-card-h...

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Neil Gaiman wrote something pretty great on enjoying the art of people whose worldview you disagree with:

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2006/06/in-wee-small-hours-of-...

Scroll down to the third question (questions are in bold).

His books are entertaining, but "great"? Speaking as someone who suffered through Speaker and Xenocide and couldn't get past the first chapter or so of the first Thomas Covenant book, I beg to differ.

(The Thomas Covenant series was by Stephen Donaldson by the way)

Card definitely has his own style with his work. Whether it's great or not is dependant on the reader - http://one-starreviews.tumblr.com/ gives some fantastic examples.

If you can, try the Seventh Son series though. easier read than Speaker or Xenocide, and very interesting IMO.

Whoops! I meant Alvin Maker. Well, I'm not a huge fan of Donaldson either, for whatever that's worth.

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