Wolfe in decline?

Mo Holkar / UKG · 15 Apr 2009, 11:53 · from 2009-April.txt.gz

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From: lists at ukg.co.uk (Mo Holkar / UKG)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:53:11 +0100
Subject: (urth) Wolfe in decline?
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At 18:31 14/04/2009, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
>I also then thought that I would never even have
>considered such a baroque interpretation in a work by another writer
>(and would have indeed set the book down long before finishing it).
>That kind of reaction, if shared by anyone here at all, is what I'm
>particularly interested in hearing about.

I had this reaction with AEG: the feeling "But this is Wolfe! Surely 
there must be more to it than this!" Particularly as it had been 
billed on Lovecraftian-horror elements which didn't really appear to 
be present in any significant way.

There are quite a few of the earlier works that I didn't fully 'get' 
at the first time of reading, so that bred in me the suspicion that 
if I didn't make much of a work, there probably was something clever 
going on that I hadn't picked up on. But those are recognizable by 
the "ah, of course" sensation when you do eventually spot it, or see 
it explained by someone else. I have had no such sensation yet with AEG.

best wishes,

Mo

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