# Subject: Kirkus review of RttW *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 17 Dec 2000* > 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. --- ### Henry Kaiser *17 Dec 2000, 11:53* re: Kirkus review of RttW > Also, this time, Wolfe provides > a typically elusive recap and update guaranteed to disconcert readers > not already perplexed-- hmmm, no recap & update in the bound advance that I read..... > Wolfe’s demands on his readers grow more onerous with every volume. I thought the "demands" grew more DELIGHTFUL, rather than ONEROUS...... H. Kaiser *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *17 Dec 2000, 13:08 · follows Henry Kaiser* >> Henry Kaiser, he quoted Kirkus the bile & wrote: >> Wolfe’s demands on his readers grow more onerous >> with every volume. > I thought the "demands" grew more DELIGHTFUL, rather than ONEROUS...... Right, well that's because Kirkus says that you and your ilk are not "mere mortals"! Whoo-hoo! If such a big deal is to be made of the labor, I'm surprised the duct didn't just say "the conclusion of a seven book series" or even "the climax (?) of a twelve book series," and then link Wolfe's Briah to Robert Jordan's huge series (alga and Patrick O'Leary and I all remember WFC Monterey and the fight that broke out over the issue of devoting review space to the nth-volume in a huge series). (And oh, those hard words in TBOTNS!!) Probably wanted to, but ran out of space! Oh well, lump of coal for Kirkus; another candidate for future humor in "Rotten Reviews." =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---