10-08-2003, 08:05 PM
[quote name='rajesh_g' date='Oct 8 2003, 06:00 AM'] [url="http://www.sulekha.com/redirectnh.asp?cid=318710"]Now, a tapori retells the Ramayana![/url] [/quote]
I haven't read book, but from the review and the excerpts, what Banker attempted is a fantasy in the genre of LotR or Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series but with a some John Varley and Nick Carter thrown in. But JRR Tolkien and Robert Jordan are excellent writers with imaginations that is not plagiarized - not much in any case, neither do they use gratuitous profanity, sex and violence.
It could have been mildly entertaining had he changed the names of people and places.
As an aside, in Telugu, there is a rendering of Ramayana called Ramayana Vishavruksham by Muppala Ranganayakamma. Muppala has an open leftist-marxist agenda which she pushes in the book. She may not have done a faithful rendering of the epic, but at least she is honest about her agenda.
I haven't read book, but from the review and the excerpts, what Banker attempted is a fantasy in the genre of LotR or Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series but with a some John Varley and Nick Carter thrown in. But JRR Tolkien and Robert Jordan are excellent writers with imaginations that is not plagiarized - not much in any case, neither do they use gratuitous profanity, sex and violence.
It could have been mildly entertaining had he changed the names of people and places.
As an aside, in Telugu, there is a rendering of Ramayana called Ramayana Vishavruksham by Muppala Ranganayakamma. Muppala has an open leftist-marxist agenda which she pushes in the book. She may not have done a faithful rendering of the epic, but at least she is honest about her agenda.