# Digest urth.v028.n175

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Apr 2000*

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### Nil_Ultra
*04 Apr 2000, 09:39*

> Whoa, cowboy.  Look, Rob, you're absolutely entitled to your opinion, but
> then, so is Jeff.  What's more, Jeff was pretty careful about framing every
> criticism he made of New Sun as his own reaction -- "for me" and so forth,
> ya see? -- and not as gospel truth (or gospel truth's inverse, heresy).
> Don't jump all over him, tell him to shut up, and imply that he doesn't
> understand the book, just because he expressed his opinion about it.

That's

> just damn rude.  And so far I've been so impressed with the congeniality of
> this list.
> 
> And for the record, I dig BotNS best, although Urth is optional.  And I
> would agree that the Soldier books are the second-best thing Wolfe's
> written.
> 
> Jack

I had no intention to be rude, though looking back at what I wrote, it may
have come out sounding that way;  I was just disagreeing.  Personally, I
also think the Long Sun gets too hard a rap - I liked it a great deal,
though I think New Sun is far superior.  Nothing ill intended Jeff.
-Rob

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