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Dave Tallman corrected me: That's what you get for relying on memory alone, I guess. You're quite right about the woman trying to pet it; I had forgotten that bit. I guess I was …
18 Jan 2009, 14:07
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My impression from this scene was that the man leading the wolf on a 'ludicrously thin leash' (I'm paraphrasing as I don't have the book with me) was the human element of the werew…
18 Jan 2009, 09:12
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I rarely post to the list (don't often have anything interesting/intelligent/worthwhile to add!), but have been reading it for some years. I'm also from the UK and Wolfe has been…
11 May 2008, 07:58
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Following on from my previous post concerning the ending of 'Soldier of Arete' (thanks to those who replied), I have now finished reading 'Sidon' and once again have a question a…
15 Feb 2007, 09:02
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A long-time lurker writes, though I have posted several times before in the past... I've been re-reading the first two Latro novels in preparation for 'Soldier of Sidon', and have…
29 Jan 2007, 17:20
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The archetypal werewolf legend concerns a man who goes out hunting whilst his wife is ill in bed. Whilst out, he encounters a huge wolf, and cuts its paw off when it attacks him. H…
01 Apr 2006, 08:16
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I have read and enjoyed both PSS and The Scar, though I can definitely see where people are coming from with regard to Mi?ville being messy and in need of a better editor. I recen…
04 Dec 2004, 01:20
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Strange; that's almost exactly how I felt when I read it a few months ago. I had read so many good things about Crowley that I thought I really should read some of his work. I enjo…
28 Jul 2003, 07:55
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Just delurking briefly... I'm currently rereading the Short Sun books (halfway through IGJ at present) and found the conclusion of OBW just as confusing the second time round as t…
13 Mar 2003, 19:03
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I've been following the recent discussions of 5HC with a good deal of interest. My introduction to Wolfe was _The Shadow of the Torturer_ (the best possible introduction IMHO), whi…
24 Apr 2002, 16:10
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Well, I've just finished RTTW and am still taking it all in. A couple of things I wanted to mention: Did anyone else think that the way Hoof talked about Oreb at the end of RTTW w…
07 Mar 2002, 15:07
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Following on from my question about this the other day, I have now read the first 150 pages or so of RTTW. Two passages stood out with respect to the narrator's eating habits, both…
19 Feb 2002, 12:18
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Thanks Rostrum for an extremely informative and helpful post. Here's one of the other main things that's been puzzling me: why does the narrator of OBW/IGJ not need to eat very mu…
13 Feb 2002, 09:08
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I've just finished reading IN GREEN'S JUNGLES and am puzzled by quite a few things. One of the main things that I can't really get my head around is the way in which Oreb appears w…
12 Feb 2002, 09:03
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Hello everyone! I tried to post to this group whilst re-reading TBOTLS a couple of months ago, but was unable to do so for some strange reason. I read a lot of the archived discu…
04 Jan 2002, 18:04
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