# Urth Digest, Vol 67, Issue 10 *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 10 Mar 2010* > 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 *10 Mar 2010, 22:40* > On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:11 PM, urth-request at lists.urth.net wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:28:40 -0600 > From: James Wynn > To: The Urth Mailing List > Subject: (urth) Lawrence Person Sort of Reviews The Sorcerer's House > > http://www.lawrenceperson.com/?p=941 > > He also has a picture of Wolfe at ReaderCon last year: > http://www.lawrenceperson.com/?tag=science-fiction FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned "The Sorcerer's House" "hermetic" and "like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and pleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in the strategies necessary to solve them." How about putting that on the back of a book cover as a blurb....(!) Kieran --- ### James Wynn *11 Mar 2010, 16:43 · in reply to Kieran Mullen* > FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned "The Sorcerer's House" "hermetic" > ?and "like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and > pleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in the strategies > necessary to solve them." This is probably true for all Wolfe's novels going back to Fifth Head, so I'm not sure I understand Witcover's beef. Even AEG was like The Book of the New Sun in that on the first read, I thought I generally understood what was going on. Sometimes Wolfe's novels are more like the puzzle box in Hellraiser. J. --- ### Fernando Gouvea *11 Mar 2010, 16:52 · in reply to James Wynn* Reading past that first sentence it becomes clear that Witcover's beef is at least partly political. I'm afraid I didn't read past the second sentence. Fernando >> On 3/11/2010 11:43 AM, James Wynn wrote: >> FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned "The Sorcerer's House" "hermetic" >> and "like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and >> pleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in the strategies >> necessary to solve them." >> > This is probably true for all Wolfe's novels going back to Fifth Head, > so I'm not sure I understand Witcover's beef. Even AEG was like The > Book of the New Sun in that on the first read, I thought I generally > understood what was going on. > > Sometimes Wolfe's novels are more like the puzzle box in Hellraiser. > > J. > _______________________________________________ > Urth Mailing List > To post, write urth at urth.net > Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net > > ``` ============================================================= Fernando Q. Gouvea Carter Professor of Mathematics Colby College Editor, MAA FOCUS 5836 Mayflower Hill Editor, MAA Reviews Waterville, ME 04901 http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/ http://www.colby.edu/~fqgouvea Man: "What's this, then?" Mr. Brown: "A liver donor's card." Man: "Need we say more?"... Mr. Brown: "Listen! I can't give it to you now. It says, 'In the event of death.' Uh. Oh! Ah. Ah. Eh." Man: "No one who has ever had their liver taken out by us has survived." -- Monty Pithon's "The Meaning of Life" ``` ---