# Digest whorl.v010.n047 *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 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. --- ### Richard Horton *12 Nov 1999, 03:12* > On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 07:10:37 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > Different tastes. I like that sentence. Some of the others are > overblown, but I think that one works just fine. That sort of sentence is very characteristic of Clute. It's just his style. By the way, if anyone wants to read a novel more confusing (though, alas, less rewarding) than Wolfe at his most opaque, they could do worse than trying Clute's one novel, _The Disinheriting Party_. > 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"). Clute is the most spoiler prone reviewer/critic I have ever read. I really like his reviews, but sometimes he just forgets that his putative reader probably hasn't read the book yet. And to be honest I think that while one =could= start with _On Blue's Waters_ and enjoy =it=, it is very much a spoiler for _The Book of the Long Sun_. Even knowing that the narrator of _On Blue's Waters_ wrote _The Book of the Long Sun_ is a spoiler. ``` Rich Horton | Stable Email: mailto://richard.horton at sff.net Home Page: http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton Also visit SF Site (http://www.sfsite.com) and Tangent Online (http://www.sfsite.com/tangent) *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ``` --- ### Alastair Reynolds *12 Nov 1999, 08:34 · follows Richard Horton* Richard: > On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 07:10:37 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > > By the way, if anyone wants to read a novel more confusing (though, > alas, less rewarding) than Wolfe at his most opaque, they could do > worse than trying Clute's one novel, _The Disinheriting Party_. He's supposed to have a new novel out sometime - the last I heard was that it was to be called Appleseed. The thing with Clute is (for me anyway), just when I'm ready to throw one of his reviews across the room, he comes out with something brilliantly perceptive. If he has a review column in Interzone, it's always the first thing I turn to. Al, just got his copy of OBW... *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---