This week in Google Alerts: review of _The Knight_

Matthew Keeley · 09 Dec 2010, 03:44 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com (Matthew Keeley)
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:44:46 -0500
Subject: (urth) This week in Google Alerts: review of _The Knight_
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In the comments, the blogger talks about the Tower of Glas being one of the
more "videogamey" aspects of TWK. This rather surprised me, as I think
there's a lot going on in that particular passage. One of my very first
posts here was about the Tower as a combination of a) the Tower of Babel and
b) Dante's Purgatory.

http://lists.urth.net/htdig.cgi/urth-urth.net/2006-September/006826.html

-Matt

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Daniel Petersen <
danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:
> 'If the blogger cannot understand the artistry involved in such a flawed
> narrator, well, I wish him the best of his Cormac McCarthy.'
>
> Totally agree with your point about his missing the artistry of writing
> through Able.  But just want to say Cormac McCarthy and Gene Wolfe are not
> mutually exclusive alternatives!  It's funny you should mention McCarthy
> because he's one of the only other authors I read that stands up very well
> next to Wolfe for me.  Two very challenging and satisfying authors with
> unbelievable virtuoso prose styles and depth.
>
> -DOJP
>
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