How list works and questions to mailers

Patrick Pottorff · 12 May 2008, 20:36 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: happyguy99993 at yahoo.com (Patrick Pottorff)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:36:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) How list works and questions to mailers
Message-ID: <17036.16129.qm at web65614.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

>"I think I'm the first Canadian to chime in here.  I'm 25, I teach music and
>English in a high school in Winnipeg, and I first read the Severian books
>about ten years ago when the Science Fiction Book Club was offering them as
>an omnibus.  I read it all, enjoyed it and found it pretty confusing.  Then
>about three years ago I saw the Short Sun books in the discount bin at my
>local bookstore.  Bought those, read them, went after the rest of the Sun
>books, then started branching out to Wolfe's other works.

>I have managed to get my brother to read the New Sun series as well as Fifth
>Head of Cerberus.  I signed up to this list mostly because I'm not smart
>enough to decipher Wolfe on my own (sad, but true).  I believe it was
>"Tracking Song" that finally made me seek outside help.

>Is anyone else noticing that there aren't a lot of women on this list?

>Matt"

I don't ever reply to anything on this list, but I assure you, I have been reading it. Matt, probably anyone is smart enough to decipher Wolfe, but it takes too damned long trying to figure it out. Which is why I also signed onto to this list. I started reading Wolfe about two years ago (I was fourteen), and before then I was very into Heinlein, Zelazny, and Clarke, but Heinlein more than any of the others. I love his writing style. 
However, as an autonomist discerning the priesthood (maybe), I can't stand his libertarian philosophy. I believe I stopped reading him at "Starship Troopers". Which was when I found the "Wizard Knight". And I've been reading Wolfe ever since. I'm a slow reader, but everything that I've read of his has been really 
worthwhile, especially the BOTNS.

I have met ONE woman who has read Wolfe, and she was a librarian. It was really odd, because I asked for 
our public library to get a copy of the Fifth Head of Cerberus, and she practically jumped. I don't think she was expecting that. Other than that, I know that I have lent my copy of "Soldier in the Mist" to a friend of mine who is a girl, but I she never got past the first fifty pages. I only lent it her because I knew she was interested in Greek mythology. Before that, I suggested she read the BOTNS, but she freaked out over one of the torture methods. To think, I had to read "Pride and Prejudice" for no reward. Damn.

Patrick

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