This week in Google Alerts: review of _The Knight_

James Wynn · 08 Dec 2010, 03:07 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:07:50 -0600
Subject: (urth) This week in Google Alerts: review of _The Knight_
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> http://weaponsgradeennui.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/the-knight/

It appears he hasn't read anything else by Wolfe. Granted, "The Wizard 
Knight" is probably not the novel anyone one would chose as the fulcrum 
of his body of work...but mostly because it is _too_ sterotypically 
Wolfe rather than because it falls short of some baseline. But based on 
what the guy says about Wolfe's ambiguity, perhaps Wolfe is not his sort 
of author. On the other hand, maybe he should try some of his short stories.

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