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I've been mostly lurking here for ages, impressed by the level of erudition and analysis - I'm not a particularly analytical reader at the best of times, and I sometimes wonder w…
03 Nov 2007, 21:47
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I started on Book of the New Sun and it suited me very well. I owe it all to Michael Moorcock too - I'd been ignoring it because "Shadow of the Torturer" sounded pretty trashy. I…
15 Jun 2007, 03:35
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As to the origin of the audiobooks, a wild guess: A friend showed me a CD he'd bought from somewhere or other of readings of H.P. Lovecraft which were entirely computer generated…
15 Jun 2007, 00:13
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Certainly for my part, I'm more than glad to have the list here as a magic decoder ring. I love Wolfe's writing, but the fact that it's full of arcane puzzles is not the reason I…
20 May 2007, 04:09
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That's nice to see - Mencken, Orwell and Dorothy Parker have always formed a sort of holy trinity for me. Somehow I can't see Wolfe using an epigraph by Dorothy Parker though. …
01 Mar 2007, 22:29
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Heartily seconded. I avoided _Book of the New Sun_ for years because I didn't want to read the sort of B-grade fantasy that would bear titles like _The Shadow of the Torturer_. The…
03 Nov 1999, 04:45
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I remember the same column, but I remember it as being by Willy Ley. Which is not to say the same column didn't get written a number of times - after all, the job of creating giant…
18 Oct 1999, 00:20
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The time has finally come for me to join the community of civilised readers and buy a copy of Lexicon Urthus - or at least persuade my girlfriend to buy me one for my birthday. Ama…
15 Sep 1999, 06:16
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[Pardon the initial mangled version of this message.] My first posting to the list and it's a rather tangential one... I just snapped up two more R.A. Lafferty books to add to my…
14 Apr 1999, 04:22
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My first posting to the list and it's a rather tangential one... I just snapped up two more R.A. Lafferty books to add to my fairly obsessive Lafferty collection, and as I took th…
14 Apr 1999, 04:16
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