# Digest whorl.v012.n033 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Feb 2001* > 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. --- ### Timothy Reilly *01 Feb 2001, 03:35* Michael Straight asked of IGJ: > Is this Wolfe's most didactic book? I don't mean it reads like he's > preaching at us, but Horn seems to make far more observations and speeches > about what is right than I can recall from any other Wolfe character, even > Silk. I confess that this is one of the things I disliked about IGJ - a certain sententiousness from Horn is his disquisitions about life, family relationships et al. I couldn't help thinking that it was meant to be wise counsel from Wolfe, though the effect for me was more like Polonius's advice to Hamlet ie vacuous cliches presented as insightful. Maybe I'm wrong in interpreting Horn's wise words in this fashion, and I've yeat to reread IGJ so it might not irritate in the same way in future. But in short, I did think it was didactic and I didn't like it. Tim *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---