Talk:Satireknight Rants - Marion Zimmer Bradley And Why I Hate Her/@comment-165.120.240.251-20200718111630

I liked MISTS first time I read it because it was a different take and had 'Celtic' mysticism which rarely featured in  books of the early 80's. As I grew more knowledgeable on the subject, however, I grew to hate it. Completely bogus, a mix of modern Wicca and stuff lifted out of Graves' the White Goddess, which was supposed to be a poetic treatise not damn history!! If MZB had admitted this, I wouldn't have loathed it so much but after the initial printing, in which she did have a 'this is fantasy' disclaimer, she seemed to start believing her own hype--probably brecause the neo-Pagans were treating it like a holy tome which benefitted her book sales. I remember submitting a short story to her magazineand getting a personalised rejection with the comment that my 'anthropology and archaeology were suspect.' Haha, that was rich coming from her, and at least my story was set in a fantasy world, not  the real one, unlike Mists...