Gene Wolfe

Doug Merritt · 04 Apr 1992, 02:35 · from sf-lovers.1992.mbox

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From: doug at netcom.com (Doug Merritt)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe
Date: 4 Apr 92 02:35:52 GMT
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phs172m at vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) writes:
>I find this opinion hard to believe.  I have tried to read a number of
>books by Gene Wolfe at various times.  He is one of very few "acclaimed"
>authors who I have found unreadable.

I find *quite* a few recent acclaimed and award winning writers to be
unreadable.

But I do like Wolfe. I think you're *both* right. There are times when his
prose borders on the purple, and other times when it is spare.

I really don't think he's always at either extreme.

Doug Merritt

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