Subject: Kirkus review of RttW
The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 17 Dec 2000
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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 

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Michael Andre-Driussi — 17 Dec 2000, 13:08
  follows, by subject match 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=



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