The Death of Doctor Island Movie

David DiGiacomo · 16 Oct 2006, 16:55 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: david at slack.com (David DiGiacomo)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:55:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) The Death of Doctor Island Movie
Message-ID: <10610161655.AA04582 at slack.com>

>I always thought that the trio of IDD, DrOfDI, and DofDrI was the most
>accessible and visual of GWs works and would make an facinating triptych of
>short films. Hopefully this will not be awful and they'll make two more.

I agree that The Death of Doctor Island is accessible in terms of
understanding the plot, but I also find it to be one of Wolfe's most
disturbing and offensive stories.  I can't imagine what a mass audience
would make of it.

(This leads me to wonder if I would dislike other Wolfe stories as much, if
only I could understand them.)

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