instant new fan

Daniel Petersen · 19 Dec 2011, 00:59 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com (Daniel Petersen)
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:59:03 +0000
Subject: (urth) instant new fan
Message-ID: <CAGB0RZ6mYQHLv4cGAGXiwkC85RCNo2+7=uD1Am1NiwZZkeSizA at mail.gmail.com>

Thought people here might enjoy seeing that new readers are still
discovering Wolfe for the very first time and being instantly enchanted.  A
friend of mine (an aspiring writer) who loves Tolkien and China Mieville
finally, at my persistent insistence, obtained BotNS and posted this to me
on Facebook just now about what he's read so far:

'I love the languid, ivy-wrapped prose that Wolfe writes in. I've been
discovering that this is a style I find myself entranced by when I read it.
I was not long ago working through Titus Groan and found myself ensconced
by many of the same elements that I'm loving in Wolfe's writing. Mr. Wolfe
seems much better at marrying plot and poesy than Mr. Peake, however.

I'm very excited about what waits around the corner. BotNS seems like the
kind of novel I dream of writing.'

Some pretty apt comments, I thought.

-DOJP
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20111219/c58c44c9/attachment.htm>

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net