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I do not like them Sam I Am. Seriously, 60+ posts a day? Every day? You guys are wearing out my delete finger. Don (who's starting to wonder what the point of all this is) Dogg…
11 Jan 2011, 23:24
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Hey guys, Here's a little lightness from my blog, just to show I don't hold it against you for spamming the crap out of my inbox over the past several weeks. The Writer's Toybox …
27 Aug 2010, 21:31
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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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Again, because it's slow, I thought I'd throw something out that I believe some of you will be interested in. My good friend, Jay Hochstedt has begun a blog, Young Gerontius ( http…
07 Sep 2009, 20:54
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Hey, it's been pretty slow here so I thought I'd toss this out. I recently wrote a blog razzing Neil Gaiman for that leather jacket he seems to wear on all his author photos and he…
23 Aug 2009, 00:41
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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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Mongo like candy. Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com…
29 Mar 2009, 06:11
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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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Ha, gotcha! Actually the subject line is completely pertinent and completely Wolfe, ala An Evil Guest. Does anyone have any idea why Wolfe bothers to have the cop that meets Cassie…
27 Mar 2009, 06:10
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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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If there are any other sinners who live in hell with me (phoenix area) you're invited to my poetry reading at Changing Hands on friday at 7 pm. I'll be reading from my book Carniva…
05 Mar 2009, 02:47
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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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Here's the list, in order, from the table of contents of my arc: The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories The Toy Theater The Fifth Head of Cerberus Beech Hill The Recording H…
11 Oct 2008, 01:23
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Sometimes, probably most times, God, or fate, or whomever or whatever, throws an unworthy dog(gett) a bone. I was perusing a box of ARCs at work today and what did I pull up from t…
09 Oct 2008, 04:50
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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 everyone, I just finished the book today, so I thought I throw out a short little review. It's on the fly, so forgive any stumbling. Within the first few pages of An Evil Gues…
14 Sep 2008, 02:53
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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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So . . . Why has there not been any full blooded conversation about Soldier of Sidon on the list? It's a "bigger" book than Wizard Knight in terms of anticipation, but it just sor…
27 Jun 2007, 18:35
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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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