UotNS question

James Crossley11 Jun 2008, 23:02

Not that I want to come off as attempting to quash interest in the conversation that’s been happening here of late, but I wondered if there were others like me on the list, huge admirers of BotNS who find the Urth coda unnecessary and frankly, kind of uninteresting. James

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes11 Jun 2008, 23:14

↳ in reply to James Crossley

James, That was my first reaction. I didn't like it at all on first reading, and thought it was basically a dumbing-down of the series by giving away stuff that we were meant to figure out for ourselves. But the opinions of some on this list sent me to a second reading, and I realized that there's a great deal more in the book, a great deal that is added to Severian's story by having it there.

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:02 PM, James Crossley <ishmael at drizzle.com> wrote: Not that I want to come off as attempting to quash interest in the conversation that's been happening here of late, but I wondered if there were others like me on the list, huge admirers of BotNS who find the Urth coda unnecessary and frankly, kind of uninteresting. James _______________________________________________

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