On Blue's Waters (Initial thoughts)

Antonin Scriabin · 09 Jan 2012, 19:12 · from 2012-January.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: kierkegaurdian at gmail.com (Antonin Scriabin)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:12:30 -0500
Subject: (urth) On Blue's Waters (Initial thoughts)
Message-ID: <CAM0v-i6KbPt1Cp=Ea9Sjh_z3w-KAPome+OeuipZrcd2ACzCLJg at mail.gmail.com>

I just finished *On Blue's Waters*.  It took me a while to really get into
it, but I look forward to reading the rest of the Short Sun books.  For
some reason it didn't capture my imagination like most of the others Wolfe
novels I have read; I think I was expecting the very verbose suffusion of
description found in the New and Long Suns.  I also thought the way some of
the characters spoke was uncharacteristically gimmicky for Wolfe (I have in
mind the character who helps Horn devise the rough map towards the
beginning and spoke a bit like Yoda).  By the introduction of Krait,
though, I was hooked.  Is anyone else just starting out with the New Sun
trilogy, or are you all old Wolfe pros? [?]
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20120109/b487ffdf/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/gif
Size: 103 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20120109/b487ffdf/attachment.gif>

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