# Digest urth.v028.n077 *The Urth list — 4 messages, 4 voices, 05 Nov 1999* > 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. --- ### Kieran Mullen *05 Nov 1999, 11:46* > From: "Roy C. Lackey" > Subject: True Confession? > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 00:05:07 -0600 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Compare that with this excerpt from John Clute's review of OBW, recently > cited on the Whorl list: > ( http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/excess.html ) Oh, MAN is that a badly written review. "But Severian himself has much to hide, and the text of his "confession" has become a honeypot for puzzle-solving readers." (Shudder). Kieran Mullen --- ### Alex David Groce *05 Nov 1999, 13:02 · follows Kieran Mullen* Clute's reviews in SF Weekly have tended to be like that--Clute at his most pontificating and (usually) least enlightening. The Hal Clement review is the one I like best, for some reason. Really a shame, given that I'd suppose it's possible it's his largest audience. The Fantasy Encyclopedia is, I'd argue, even better than the SF Encyclopedia. It leaves more out because it has a much larger, really, ground to tackle, but what's there is very good (including nice articles on most everyone, save Proust, who could be thought of as a major influence on Wolfe--very nice ones on Chesterton and Lewis by our list's own Dave Langford). "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 ``` Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu) Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department 8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce ``` --- ### Michael Straight *05 Nov 1999, 13:03 · follows Alex David Groce* > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Kieran Mullen wrote: > Oh, MAN is that a badly written review. And don't forget the big hairy spoilers. If you haven't read the Long Sun books yet, don't read that review. -Rostrum --- ### Daniel Fusch *05 Nov 1999, 19:12 · follows Michael Straight* (snip) > Oh, MAN is that a badly written review. No kidding...when I read that excerpt, it sent linguistic chills up my grammatical/literary spine. It's just awful! ---