A Question

Matthew Keeley · 15 Jun 2007, 02:20 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com (Matthew Keeley)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:20:05 -0400
Subject: (urth) A Question
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Stuart,

I started off with Shadow & Claw myself; I was hooked by the end of the
first chapter. I haven't read Strange Travelers, but I'm not sure if The
Island of Doctor Death is the best place to start; lots of the science stuff
hasn't aged as well as one might hope, and some of the stories, like "The
Eyeflash Miracles," are so obscure and difficult to read that I wonder if
they might turn off readers. That said, it seems to me that "Seven American
Nights" from that collection might make a very good intro to Wolfe; it seems
to me a very representative Wolfe story, what with the decaying world and
the monumentally unreliable narrator.

I suppose that The Wizard Knight is another possible starting point; my one
caveat is that lots of readers either a) hate Able or b) think that The
Wizard drags a lot, so that might not be the best place to begin.

Best of luck convincing your friends.

-Matt

On 6/14/07, Stuart Hamm <hammstu at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Hey Evryone,I have a question for you all...
> I have a couple of good friends I want to turn on to GW, what is a good
> strting point? Don't want to scare them off to soon...
> I'm thinking "Strang Travelers" or "The ISland..." ,or should I just give
> them Shadow and Claw and be done with it???
>
> Stuart
>
> *Tim Walters <walters at doubtfulpalace.com>* wrote:
>
> > Buck's dreams in CotW are easily explained. Jack London was a believer
> > in racial memory (and a lot of other tosh as well). He wrote a whole
> > novel in which the protagonist (an imprisoned radical) escapes into
> > dreams/visions/astral projections of the past, including a session in
> > prehistoric times, which corresponds nicely to Buck's dream. It was
> > called "Star Rover."
>
> _Before Adam_ uses the same trope, IIRC.
>
> --
> Tim Walters | http://doubtfulpalace.com
>
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