# Digest whorl.v010.n04 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 08 Nov 1999* > 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. --- ### Michael Straight *08 Nov 1999, 10:27* > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 Bjjp2 at aol.com wrote: > I read Clute's review and was very surprised at the poor writing. I know, > who am I to criticize, but c'mon: "They are, to begin with, each of them, > regardless of the number of volumes they were broken into for easy > publication, a single novel." Different tastes. I like that sentence. Some of the others are overblown, but I think that one works just fine. As I said before, my main beef with the review is that it contains way too many spoilers for the other series (or other novels, to use Clute's term) for an interview claiming to be fore a newcomer to Wolfe ("You can start here"). I assumed the first sentence of the review was a parody/pastiche of Wolfe's style. -Rostrum *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---