# Re "An Exchange of Hostages" *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Sep 2001* > 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. --- ### Nigel Price *10 Sep 2001, 09:26* > Re. Susan Matthews' book, "An Exchange of Hostages", Jeff Miller wrote: > I read it, and was intrigued enough to buy (and not > yet read) the second in the series. The story has > little if any Lupine influence, IMO, especially since > Matthews seems to get off on horrid descriptions of > torture, a touch that Wolfe leaves out IIRC. > > an okay read, but not crucial. Thank you, Jeff. Another list member wrote to me off-list and commented: > - It is fairly well written. > - It is very much anti-Lupine. > - It is perfectly horrid S/M porn with sci-fi trappings. Oh well, I did ask... Anyway, a consensus seems to be emerging. It really does sound rather horrid, and, personally, I don't think that I'll bother reading it. Nigel ---