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I can second Russell Wodel's recent recommendation for Russian Ark. It's a stunning film that would appeal to anyone who likes Wolfe. Tim…
28 Apr 2003, 06:01
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Re Nabokov, I also greatly regret that I do not enjoy his prose as much as I'd like, given he is so admired by Wolfe, Martin Amis and other writers I greatly admire. Lolita I fini…
16 Apr 2003, 23:51
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Some of his fables are marvelous in >-Just-So- kind of way, and a few of the longer stories, >novellas really, are very good. But if you're pinching I entirely agree, and am surpr…
15 Apr 2003, 23:37
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Re favourite quotes, mine is from Shadow (I think) - the sea being "as fetid and fecund as a woman's groin". Wolfe must have liked it too, because it gets a repeat in Urth (again,…
10 Apr 2003, 23:12
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This is the most irritating thing about RTTW, although Pig's silly voices and the astral travel back to interfere in the plot of the TBNS are up there too. Several people, includi…
19 Dec 2002, 01:34
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Adam, there's no such consensus. While I liked OBW I had grave doubts after IGJ, and these were confirmed by RTTW. I and many others expressed in detail why we did not think TBSS…
24 May 2002, 00:37
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No - this certainly doesn't follow logically. Astronomers today think they know what's happening at the sun's core, but can hardly be said to have contributed to it! I've always …
04 Mar 2002, 04:03
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Are you sure? What part of which speech do you have in mind? Tim…
02 Mar 2002, 03:16
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Nice idea Alan. What happens in the pit in OBW seems central to understanding the remainder of the trilogy, and this is the most sensible sounding speculation I can recall. Re "t…
21 Feb 2002, 05:54
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Yes, the naive political content certainly detracted from the admirably heartfelt remainder. Can it be seriously questioned that societies of hundreds of millions require more com…
04 Jan 2002, 11:44
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In whorl.v012.n106, Rostrum wrote in response to my question "how many gods does a planet need"?: A nice riposte. I was going to write that my question was rhetorical, but this w…
19 Apr 2001, 04:24
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Kieran Cleary wrote of my querying the quote from "Father" re Typhon's daughter Scylla at p 360 of RTTW ("the daughter who had pledged herself in secret to one of the sea gods of t…
17 Apr 2001, 02:26
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My two cents worth: I also found RTTW unsatisfying, but then I'd found IGJ a big let down from OBW too. Without repeating the problems, I refer to Alan Lloyd's excellent post in …
12 Apr 2001, 06:30
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Michael Straight asked of IGJ: I confess that this is one of the things I disliked about IGJ - a certain sententiousness from Horn is his disquisitions about life, family relation…
01 Feb 2001, 03:35
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I gave up after a few pages, quickly deciding that I didn't like this sort of Wolfe - folksy prose and weak humour, as opposed to his more literary efforts like TBNS. I was tring …
01 Feb 2001, 03:25
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Sadly I don't think IGJ is even half as good. I thought OBW was wonderful, but IGJ is getting too confusing with its astral dream travel all over the place. Also do we really nee…
23 Nov 2000, 06:01
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Sadly I don't think IGJ is even half as good. I thought OBW was wonderful, but IGJ is getting too confusing with its astral dream travel all over the place. Also do we really nee…
23 Nov 2000, 06:01
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Re Ultan's Library, congratulations to Jonathan Laidlow and all involved. I, like alga some time ago (I think?) was very impressed with Nick Gevers' essays on TBLS. They made me …
08 Jun 2000, 06:59
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<snip> I always thought Horn's speculations on how the inhumi get from Green to Blue (and to the Whorl) at pp 180-183 was intended humorously (not by Horn, but by the reader seeing…
16 Apr 2000, 05:47
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<snip> I always thought Horn's speculations on how the inhumi get from Green to Blue (and to the Whorl) at pp 180-183 was intended humorously (not by Horn, but by the reader seeing…
16 Apr 2000, 05:47
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Check it out in any Greek mythology compendium, or go to the source, Hesiod. As I said in my original post on the subject, I possess Lexicon Urthus so I know there are alternative…
10 Apr 2000, 23:07
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Can I rush to correct a howler in my last post before anyone else does? An echidna is of course a monotreme, _not_ a marsupial. It accordingly lays eggs, just like the even more …
09 Apr 2000, 23:07
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Frankly, Steve I've been trying to resist responding to your post, but then I thought to look at its date. Explains everything! If, on the other hand, it does not fall into the…
09 Apr 2000, 06:21
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Re the recent discussions prompted by my post on whether the Long Sun series is worth it or not, it's nice to see that there is a respectable body of opinion at both extremes. How…
03 Apr 2000, 02:55
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Re my posting on difficulty in even getting started on the Long Sun books because of the writing style some months ago in urth.v028.n079 and replies in n080-n082, I took the advice…
30 Mar 2000, 04:08
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Re my posting on difficulty in even getting started on the Long Sun books because of the writing style some months ago in urth.v028.n079 and replies in n080-n082, I took the advice…
30 Mar 2000, 04:08
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Ron Hale-Evans writes: Actually, I had the same experience, (though I stopped rather earlier), and for the same reason: the more straightforward narrative style of the Long Sun bo…
06 Nov 1999, 08:44
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Michael Thanks for the welcome. I'm an admirer of your book too by the way. All of the suggested explanations you made had occurred to me, but none of them really seem right, do…
27 May 1999, 03:50
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Why does the Green Man tell Severian that Agia can be found "above ground"?…
26 May 1999, 05:30
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