Recent Inactivity

Marc Coleman · 21 Sep 1998, 14:15 · from urth-v0019.mbox · original

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From: Marc Coleman <marc.coleman at mwcia.org>
Subject: Re: (urth) Recent Inactivity
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:15:40
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At 01:52 PM 9/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Marc Coleman wrote:
>
>> At 06:57 PM 9/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> >For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week.
So, to
>> >get some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LI=
VE
>> >FREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the
basic
>> >plot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much.
>
>> Been a while, but I remember it as a film-noir-comedy-mystery.  Some guy
>> named Free is letting people stay at his house free even tho it's going =
to
>> be demolished in a few days.  A witch, a prostitute, a private detective,
>> you get the idea.  I loved it, not New Sun but one of his weird sorta
>> mainstream but Wolfe messes with yr head anyways books.  I'd get it.
>> marc of Serotonia
>
>I also think it's Wolfe's funniest book.
>
>-Rostrum
Agreed (thinking of the hospital scene in particular).  Last time I read it
I thought it might make a good movie...    marc of Serotonia


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