OT: Lafferty recommendations

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 22 Jul 2007, 00:34 · from 2007-July.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:34:02 -0700
Subject: (urth) OT: Lafferty recommendations
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i'm going to go against the herd here and recommend Lafferty's book
_Apocalypses_, two short novels. The first, "The Three Armageddons
of Enniscorthy Sweeney," is about why the Twentieth Century never
really happened. The second, whose title I'm blanking on, is about
an agent appointed to investigate the sudden appearance of a major
landmass.

They're both very, very funny.

On 7/21/07, Matthew Groves <matthewalangroves at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wolfe seems to be a big admirer of R. A. Lafferty.  ("Has Anyone Seen
> Junie Moon" from _Starwater Strains_ has a character named Roy T.
> Laffer.)  Are there any readers of Lafferty here who can recommend a
> good place for a Wolfe fan to start?
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