The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe

Recursive Loop · 01 Jun 2007, 17:01 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: recursive_loop at yahoo.com (Recursive Loop)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:01:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe
In-Reply-To: <10706011655.AA02794 at slack.com>
Message-ID: <213839.44677.qm at web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

If Gene Wolfe is too difficult for readers, I hate to hear the reception that Young Herman
Melville or Young John Dos Passos or Young Philip K. Dick or Young Samuel R. Delany, etc., etc.,
etc. would meet in today's market.

Must every book today be of the weight of a Grisham or a Star Trek/Star Wars media tie-in or a
Harry Potter clone? 

Heck, I like easy books. But not all the time. I like challenging books. But not all the time. I
won't exclude either category entirely!

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