Severian (the torturer) on writing

The Usenet list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 16 Jan 2009
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Daniel Damouth16 Jan 2009, 19:30
I'm reading The Book of the New Sun for the first time, and laughed at this: "I know little of literary style; but I have learned as I have progressed, and find this art not so much different from my old one as might be thought." -from Shadow of the Torturer
htn96316 Jan 2009, 20:06

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On Jan 16, 11:30=A0am, Daniel Damouth <damo... at san.rr.com> wrote: I'm reading The Book of the New Sun for the first time, and laughed at this: "I know little of literary style; but I have learned as I have progressed, and find this art not so much different from my old one as might be thought." -from Shadow of the Torturer
Reading Severian is torture. It was the occasional vivid scenes and well-realized inventions which made Wolfe's BOTNS series worth reading for me, not the author's mannerly prose or his protagonist. (Vance does it much better.) In this instance, substance triumphed over style.
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wjtingle16 Jan 2009, 22:44

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Daniel Damouth wrote: I'm reading The Book of the New Sun for the first time, and laughed at this: "I know little of literary style; but I have learned as I have progressed, and find this art not so much different from my old one as might be thought." -from Shadow of the Torturer
No argument from me. I got to the end of the first book and pronounced a Double Dorothy on all Wolfe's writing, in perpetuity. Regards, Jack Tingle

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