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Hey all, One of the great things about this list, and about Wolfe in general, are the tangents you end up traveling on. God love google, I typed in Ulster and Borges (looking for …
24 Nov 2009, 08:02
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Great article! Here's a (minority of one) quote from the comments: "Nope. Sorry. I found it dull, meandering, self-indulgent, derivative, and just plain badly written. Not a singl…
24 Nov 2009, 06:38
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The whole thread's in poor taste if you ask me. Please let it die everyone. Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com…
03 Nov 2009, 02:39
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I'd say that Wolfe tends to appropriate and redefine any bit of literature and pop culture that appeals to him, and that he is of just the right generation to have been a fan of th…
22 Sep 2009, 04:56
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Sorry James, I've read The Devil in a Forest, but I was pretty underwhelmed by it, so I never dug very deep. Don Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com…
15 May 2009, 07:05
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Sorry James, I've read The Devil in a Forest, but I was pretty underwhelmed by it, so I never dug very deep. Don Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com…
15 May 2009, 07:05
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I've been on a strange noir kick, re-reading 100 bullets (the series is finally done, sniff), Ed Brubaker's Criminal, and Kris Saknussemm's Private Midnight (which is fantastic unt…
25 Apr 2009, 00:25
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Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com I agree, and I would go a step farther and say that LS and SS are really one novel. SS is basically a continuation of the epilogue in LS and …
15 Apr 2009, 01:55
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Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com Yeah, WTF? I can't even begin to tell you how wholly satisfying it was to put those four letters in the subject line. Keeping it relevant to …
30 Mar 2009, 23:19
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Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com I forgot it was a Baskin Robbins. That was one of the things that made it so funny when I first read it. As for your question, I thought she …
27 Mar 2009, 16:44
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Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com Yeah, but he appears again several times, but this sort of raw vulgarity is nowhere to be seen, nowhere else in the novel, and nowhere in any…
27 Mar 2009, 16:33
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Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com Well, I do tend to be more intuitive than rational when it comes to fiction. Gold star for Don. Btw, In the name of George Romero, Max Brooks…
26 Mar 2009, 22:30
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So, here's a question, with the answer supplied, that ends up being a bit of paradox. Question: when a thread has far outlived its usefulness, and is clogging up people's inboxes A…
26 Mar 2009, 21:08
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Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote: ? The Colonials could Why work when you can surf, brah? Seriously. I can hard…
23 Mar 2009, 08:35
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Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com --- On Thu, 3/19/09, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote: Pretty broad, of course: a Whoah. Pale Rider, anyone? Don…
19 Mar 2009, 18:10
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He doesn't want dumbass kids and or gangbangers breaking into his house and stealing his guns. Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com…
18 Mar 2009, 18:03
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Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com Up until recently (within the last 30 - 40 years), the Deep South and the South in general would have been considered poor as a region, thank…
18 Mar 2009, 06:37
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Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com But how many of these people are LEGALLY armed? That's my problem with gun control- most of the people committing gun crimes obtained the gun…
18 Mar 2009, 06:25
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As someone who lives in the Wild West, I gotta say it ain't all it's cracked up to be. They say an armed society is a polite society, but mostly it's just a belligerently overconfi…
18 Mar 2009, 02:05
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Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com --- On Tue, 3/17/09, Allan Anderson <rubel at goosemoon.org> wrote: From: Allan Anderson <rubel at goosemoon.org> Subject: Re: (urth) The Po…
17 Mar 2009, 16:25
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Don't forget that Wolfe also explicitly has one of his characters (Gil Corby, I think) call a hopper a flier and describes it as negating gravity in the same manner as the fliers i…
04 Nov 2008, 02:21
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Devil in a Forest was a bit disappointing to me, mainly because I couldn't help comparing it to Barry Unsworth's Morality Play, which is incredible. Don The Evangelists: a Lesse…
11 Oct 2008, 01:26
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Imo, Wolfe very deliberately refers to a hopper as a flier. They escape gravity in a similar manner, too. It's interesting that Reiss draws the U.S. Navy into a conflict with the S…
28 Sep 2008, 21:57
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Hi everybody, Just got my finished copy of the book (I know it's not out 'til the 16th, but a rep sent it to me). I plan to read it asap and give a short spoiler free review. bye…
09 Sep 2008, 21:14
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All of the stories from the Wonders of Urth and Sky. Don…
22 Aug 2008, 01:11
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It's up on amazon, with a cover illustration. Nifty. http://www.amazon.com/Evil-Guest-Gene-Wolfe/dp/0765321335 Don The Evangelists: a Lesser Apocrypha …
23 Mar 2008, 01:50
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Just have your clone write your letters. Don…
21 Mar 2008, 19:48
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Hmmm. Sirius + Fiction + web page. Could it be siriusfiction.com? Perhaps the answer is in mantis at siriusfiction.com? Thanks Roy, and thanks to Mantis. Don…
25 Feb 2008, 23:20
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Except for the impossible to avoid fact that Wolfe has Silk(horn) travel to Urth and meet Severian in RttW. Whatever else it might mean, it certainly means the books are intended t…
21 Dec 2007, 06:33
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Now that's just heresy. With an attitude like that we'll have people giving all sorts of creative interpretations. This is fiction, man, fiction. It's all very serious and scientif…
18 Dec 2007, 08:17
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I'm assuming this is the episode that ends up in Urth of the New Sun? If so, then this is important because the assassin clearly singles out Severian to die and I believe the conse…
19 Jul 2007, 16:07
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--- Martinus Scriblerus So, light them with your. . . er. . . cigarette. Here's to freedom and independent thought. Don The Evangelists: a Lesser Apocrypha …
04 Jul 2007, 07:02
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Fate was kind to me in that my mom had a copy of Edith Hamilton's Mythology and Rouse's translation of the Illiad on her bookshelf. It wasn't much, but it was a big enough rabbit h…
28 Jun 2007, 18:27
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Okay, I may crash and burn with this, but be darned if I'm not going to try to fly. First. You don't cook a salad. You prepare it. And if you're a cook rather than a chef, you d…
27 Jun 2007, 05:34
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Maybe this is reaching on my part, but Herman Hesse wrote a story about a hideous dwarf who belonged to a princess. He's given a puppy that he loves more than anything, but the pri…
27 Jun 2007, 04:15
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Not necessarily. Wolfe's best trick is to make us make assumptions. The only statement of fact in the sentence is that the Robinsons don't have "real" children. It's suspiciously v…
27 Jun 2007, 04:05
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Oh, I don't know. I think it's a pretty modern innovation. It seems that mass acculturation has been the rule for most of human history. Thus the mongols in China, the Persian, Par…
21 Jun 2007, 17:13
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How about this one? from http://xchar.home.att.net/n2a/medhyp.htm "The Neanderthals, I propose, disappeared from Europe and Asia for the same reason that the mammoths disappear…
21 Jun 2007, 07:11
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--- brunians at brunians.org wrote: I think you I think that much of this is still up for debate, especially the interbreeding part, but the fact that there is a debate still va…
20 Jun 2007, 15:41
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--- brunians at brunians.org wrote: in reply to: It was by Michael Crichton and it's a great historical novel/ forgery. If anyone else had written it, or if he had used a pseudon…
20 Jun 2007, 06:22
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Yes, but he also incorporates various SF tropes, especially pulpy ones, like Burroughs, Lovecraft, and Howard. Abaia is ridiculously Cthulhuesque in that he invades dreams, lives a…
20 Jun 2007, 00:40
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--- Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> wrote: I have, however, http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortstories/chulthhustory That was really funny stuff. Thanks for…
19 Jun 2007, 21:34
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It's a masterpiece of short fiction. Gaiman's all over the place in terms of quality, but this is a prime example of why he's so highly regarded. His other Cthulhu tale is Only the…
19 Jun 2007, 21:09
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God, I hope so. We can always use another insane genius in literature. But I think it's more the case that rather than creating this ridiculously complicated architecture in his fi…
15 Jun 2007, 17:25
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--- Dave Lebling <dlebling at hyraxes.com> wrote: The Yeah, it's Carver or Cthulhu for many. Sorry, I'm reading Brian Lumley's Titus Crow series right now and I couldn't resist. …
15 Jun 2007, 04:40
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Welcome to the list! I think you've given as important a first post as anyone. Thanks for doing that and for reaffirming my faith in this list. Oh, and sorry everyone for the rant.…
15 Jun 2007, 00:11
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Here's the link to the seller's other items. Can I get an Aaargh, Matey? I wonder if someone is just recording their own audio. Oh, and regarding the listing going down, it had a b…
14 Jun 2007, 23:46
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Indeed. I just checked that listing and it's been removed. I wouldn't hold my breath for any response. Don The Evangelists: a Lesser Apocrypha …
14 Jun 2007, 23:24
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Well, rather than wondering, I emailed her asking who reads them and who originally published them. So hopefully I'll hear back. I'll let you know when and if I do. Don The Evang…
14 Jun 2007, 21:01
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I haven't read Peace, but I was zipping through this letter and misread the bit above as "and that's where Wolfe dwells. . ." That is, the mutable space between meanings. It's obvi…
07 Jun 2007, 20:49
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