# Digest urth.v028.n069 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 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. --- ### Richard Horton *11 Nov 1999, 04:23* > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:46:00 -0700 (PDT), Rostrum wrote: > I wonder if we could put together a list of the "easiest" or "most > accessible" Wolfe? "Wolfe for Beginners"? I recently saw someone > recommend "Fifth Head of Cerebrus" as a place to start with Wolfe, but > that seems to me to be one of his more obscure and difficult works (but > then I'm biased, because it's my least favorite, for some reason). That may have been me, if you saw it on rec.arts.sf.written. In that case, I was generalizing from personal experience, in that the novella "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" was the first Wolfe I read. _The Book of the Long Sun_ actually isn't a bad place to start. Among the novels, I guess _Peace_ is a good choice, also. Among the short stories, why not "Trip Trap"? A whole lot of people started perforce with that story. Also the funny ones ("How I Lost the Second World War ...", "The Rubber Bend") might not be bad. "La Befana" is short, effective, and very Wolfean. ``` Tusk (Rich Horton) -- Rich Horton | Stable Email: mailto://richard.horton at sff.net Home Page: http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton Also visit SF Site (http://www.sfsite.com) and Tangent Online (http://www.sfsite.com/tangent) ``` ---