Recent Inactivity The Urth list — 5 messages, 4 voices, 20 Sep 1998 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1102 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== CRCulver — 20 Sep 1998, 22:57 For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to get some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE FREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the basic plot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much. Thanks, Christopher R. Culver http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html ------------------------------------------------ "The darkest dreams are the ones that come true." -Warren Defever ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc Coleman — 21 Sep 1998, 08:20 follows, by subject match CRCulver > At 06:57 PM 9/20/98 -0400, you wrote: > For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to > get some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE > FREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the basic > plot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much. Been a while, but I remember it as a film-noir-comedy-mystery. Some guy named Free is letting people stay at his house free even tho it's going to be demolished in a few days. A witch, a prostitute, a private detective, you get the idea. I loved it, not New Sun but one of his weird sorta mainstream but Wolfe messes with yr head anyways books. I'd get it. marc of Serotonia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Straight — 21 Sep 1998, 13:52 follows, by subject match Marc Coleman > On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Marc Coleman wrote: > At 06:57 PM 9/20/98 -0400, you wrote: > > For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to > > get some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE > > FREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the basic > > plot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much. > Been a while, but I remember it as a film-noir-comedy-mystery. Some guy > named Free is letting people stay at his house free even tho it's going to > be demolished in a few days. A witch, a prostitute, a private detective, > you get the idea. I loved it, not New Sun but one of his weird sorta > mainstream but Wolfe messes with yr head anyways books. I'd get it. > marc of Serotonia I also think it's Wolfe's funniest book. -Rostrum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc Coleman — 21 Sep 1998, 14:15 follows, by subject match Michael Straight > At 01:52 PM 9/21/98 -0400, you wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Marc Coleman wrote: > > At 06:57 PM 9/20/98 -0400, you wrote: > > > For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to > > > get some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE > > > FREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the > > > basic > > > plot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much. > > Been a while, but I remember it as a film-noir-comedy-mystery. Some guy > > named Free is letting people stay at his house free even tho it's going to > > be demolished in a few days. A witch, a prostitute, a private detective, > > you get the idea. I loved it, not New Sun but one of his weird sorta > > mainstream but Wolfe messes with yr head anyways books. I'd get it. > > marc of Serotonia > I also think it's Wolfe's funniest book. > > -Rostrum Agreed (thinking of the hospital scene in particular). Last time I read it I thought it might make a good movie... marc of Serotonia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Matthew Malthouse — 22 Sep 1998, 00:50 follows, by subject match Marc Coleman > CRCulver at aol.com wrote: > > For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to > get some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE > FREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the basic > plot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much. I finished it (my first reading) last week and found myself rather unsatisfied. Being Wolfe I was trying to keep my brain receptive to clues and curios but found nothing that really sparked. The denoument was particularly troubling. Frankly I just didn't believe it. Is it me, or is the book? Matthew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------