Urth Digest, Vol 67, Issue 10

James Wynn · 11 Mar 2010, 16:43 · from 2010-March.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:43:04 -0600
Subject: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 67, Issue 10
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> FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned "The Sorcerer's House" "hermetic"
> ?and "like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and
> pleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in the strategies
> necessary to solve them."

This is probably true for all Wolfe's novels going back to Fifth Head,
so I'm not sure I understand Witcover's beef. Even AEG was like The
Book of the New Sun in that on the first read, I thought I generally
understood what was going on.

Sometimes Wolfe's novels are more like the puzzle box in Hellraiser.

J.

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