shadow of the torturer and thomas co - (nf)

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Subject: Re: shadow of the torturer and thomas co - (nf)
Date: 21 Jun 83 14:14:58-PDT (Tue)
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I seem to have had a similar response to SotT.  It took me about
3 months to finish the book, but the first quarter of the book took
all but 4 days of it.  It was not that I didn't like the book, but it
is an involved and thought provoking book and you have to be in the
proper frame of mind.  If you don't feel like involving yourself in
the book, it just doesn't work.  I have a similar response to movies:
some days I feel like Fellini, some days I feel like the Marx
Brothers.

     One thing that I noticed (someone out there want to back me up on
this?)  when reading it was that the feel of the New Sun books was
very close to the works of Kafka.  As it turned out, I was reading
some of Kafka's short works about the time I read SotT, so it might
just be a reaction to that, but it almost felt like he was using a
work like The Castle as a philosphical base.  There is also a lot of
classical literature entertwined into the fabric of the story,
especially the Greek and Roman mythologies.

     I haven't read the Covenant yet. Maybe I should... Is it really a
good work?

>From the dungeons of the Warlock:

Chuck Von Rospach
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