_The Sorcerer's House_ reviews

Gwern Branwen · 29 Mar 2010, 23:08 · from 2010-March.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:08:22 -0400
Subject: (urth) _The Sorcerer's House_ reviews
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> A list of online reviews I've seen thus far:
>
> - http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/121553-the-sorcerers-house-by-gene-wolfe/
> - http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58638
> - http://www.lawrenceperson.com/?p=941
> - http://www.fantasyliterature.com/wolfegene.html#house
> (This one, incidentally, agrees with us that Bax kills George at the
> end. I'm coming to think that Bax's talk of cheating is supposed to
> hint that he boobytrapped or disabled one of the 2 dueling pistols,
> and that's how he won.)

http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2010/03/sorcerers-house-by-gene-wolfe-reviewed.html
http://goldenpigsy.blogspot.com/2010/03/sorcerers-house-by-gene-wolfe.html

(Both agree about the twist ending.)

-- 
gwern

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