Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?

Antonin Scriabin · 16 Dec 2011, 14:57 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: kierkegaurdian at gmail.com (Antonin Scriabin)
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:57:04 -0500
Subject: (urth) Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?
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Like Ant?nio, I never actually got much of a s&s feel from *The Book of the
New Sun*.  Part of the reason might be that even from the beginning, one
gets a sense of the immense age of Urth.  I kind of wish I had read the
books without any pre-existing notions, since that might have been why I
left the first few chapters with a clear impression that the story was
far-future science fiction.  Darn dust jackets!

2011/12/16 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>

> Daniel Petersen wrote (16-12-2011 11:23):
>
>  Dang it.  This thread totally got away from me.  Since I started the
>> current
>> genre discussion with a comment to the effect that BotNS has a 'feel' of
>> SnS
>> (at first), let me just remind those who saw that comment that I rather
>> clearly said that this is just a feel and NOT that the series IS SnS (in
>> whole or in part).  I still think I'm right that it has a significant SnS
>> genre element in some of its contours - at least for a while.
>>
>
> I was the one who replied to that, and I was not saying you were saying
> that it WAS s&s. I was saying I didn't get even the surface feeling of s&s
> from it. I get more of it from The Malacia Tapestry or Lord Valentine's
> Castle. That's not anyone's fault. Maybe for me s&s is a more restricted
> thing than for others. I think of Conan the Barbarian rather than LotR as
> the prototype. I'm not even sure I find LotR all that s&s, given the
> serious 'historical' feeling I get from it, nor the Hobbit, given its
> (deceivingly) children's-tale style.
>
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