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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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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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<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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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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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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