Sorcerer's House: First Impressions spoilage

Craig Brewer · 05 Apr 2010, 15:43 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: cnbrewer at yahoo.com (Craig Brewer)
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 08:43:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Sorcerer's House: First Impressions *spoilage*
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John Clute's review just appeared in NYRSF (alongside yours of _The Long Man_, so this is probably not news to you in particular), and his reaction was remarkably similar!

Since I just read it a few minutes ago, I have it at hand. His summary: "...I believe in Baxter Dunn... Because I wanted a Wolfe novel to read in a single sitting without escaping us utterly, and that by virtue of that single sitting love might be conveyed: Wolfe's love of telling, the love of the main characters of _House_ for each other, the love felt by the reader for a book whose author may, for once in his life, have told a tall tale around the campfire. I believed every word of it."

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From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
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Sent: Mon, April 5, 2010 10:36:08 AM
Subject: (urth) Sorcerer's House: First Impressions *spoilage*

I'm writing this up before reading any of the stuff that's come over
the list, which I've kept isolated in a folder of its own.

I finished TSH yesterday and it seemed to me remarkably free of
"Huh?"s. By which I mean, by the end of the book I think Wolfe cleared
up most if not all of the mysteries pretty, uh, clearly. By the time
we find out who Bax's birth-parents are, the rest seems pretty
straighforward.

Straighforward for Wolfe, that is...

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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