{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/837", "note": "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.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "whorl", "thread": { "id": 837, "subject": "Who else has read IGJ?", "messages": 5, "voices": 5, "first": "2000-06-09T21:24:39+00:00", "last": "2000-06-12T14:17:10+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Yves Meynard", "address": "ymeynard at globetrotter.qc.ca" }, "date": "2000-06-09T21:24:39+00:00", "subject": "(whorl) Who else has read IGJ?", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Anybody else out there got hold of an advance copy of _In Green's Jungles_?\nAfter reading it, I've still got a lot more questions than answers. I can't\nwait for people who are smarter than me to get the book and start\ndiscussing it. In the meantime, I promise to keep my mouth shut, difficult\nas that may be.\n\nYves Meynard\n(yes, I'm gloating)\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nicholas Gevers", "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2000-06-09T23:53:48+00:00", "subject": "Re: (whorl) Who else has read IGJ?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I'm another of the fortunate (or damnable) few, and\nI'm also eager to begin the discussion. In the\ndwindling meantime, let me ask you this, Yves: do you\nnow know why there was no guard at the Citadel gate in\nChapter I of THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER?\n " }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "--- Yves Meynard wrote:\nAnybody else out there got hold of an advance copy\nof _In Green's Jungles_?\nAfter reading it, I've still got a lot more\nquestions than answers. I can't\nwait for people who are smarter than me to get the\nbook and start\ndiscussing it. In the meantime, I promise to keep my\nmouth shut, difficult\nas that may be.\n\nYves Meynard\n(yes, I'm gloating)" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Alice Turner", "address": "pei047 at attglobal.net" }, "date": "2000-06-11T09:33:57+00:00", "subject": "(whorl) Who else has read IGJ?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I think there are six of us. That really isn't enough. Have others put\nin advance orders? What is the critical mass when we can start talking?\n\n-alga\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "William Ansley", "address": "wansley at warwick.net" }, "date": "2000-06-11T22:14:33+00:00", "subject": "Re: (whorl) Who else has read IGJ?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 8:44 AM +0100 6/11/00, David Langford wrote:\nI reviewed it from a Tor proof a couple of months back -- the review is\ndue out in the British SF Association's =Vector= but I'll post it here\nwith lots of (mostly unnecessary, I hope) spoiler space if that's OK with\nthe list members." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I have no desire to see your review (or any) before I read the book, \nbut, as long as you clearly mark it in the subject header I can skip \nit and save it for later, so post away." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 9:33 AM -0400 6/11/00, Alice Turner wrote:\nI think there are six of us. That really isn't enough. Have others put\nin advance orders? What is the critical mass when we can start talking?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I put in my order about two weeks ago. As far as I am concerned, as \nlong as a suitable label (such as \"IGJ Spoilers\") is in the subject \nheader of *all* the messages that make up this discussion and it is \nrestricted to the Whorl list, then the discussion can begin right \nnow. I will just save the messages until after I have a chance to \nread the book (I did this with OBW).\n\nHave fun, you lucky skunks (as Gary Larson of Far Side fame would say).\n\nWilliam Ansley\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "matthew.malthouse", "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk" }, "date": "2000-06-12T14:17:10+00:00", "subject": "Re: (whorl) Who else has read IGJ?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 10/06/2000 02:24:39 Yves Meynard wrote:\nAnybody else out there got hold of an advance copy of _In Green's Jungles_?" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Yves Meynard\n(yes, I'm gloating)" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "This list is normally a quiet, reflective and above all intellectual place; but\nright now you'll have dozens of people feverishly scouring the yellow pages to\ndiscover which category covers contract hit-men....\n\n\nMatthew\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun." } ] } ] }