On Blue's Waters (Initial thoughts)

Antonin Scriabin · 09 Jan 2012, 19:36 · from 2012-January.txt.gz

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From: kierkegaurdian at gmail.com (Antonin Scriabin)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:36:59 -0500
Subject: (urth) On Blue's Waters (Initial thoughts)
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See, I found the way the thieves and other disreputables spoke in Long Sun
to be great; the odd words were carefully selected (like the vocabulary of
New Sun) from other places and cleverly used.  A lot of the words were
actually found in thieves slang from the 1800s (like "dimber" for
example).  The character on Blue who simply had the order of words in his
sentences changed up clearly didn't have the same amount of work put into
him.

I can see how it would be a "mounting trilogy" ... I can say I am genuinely
excited to "land on Green" and see where the adventure goes ...

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Petersen <
danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, the writing style is different than the earlier Suns.  But I really
> like it.  I really like Horn's character developed through the journal
> entries.  It's a mounting trilogy to me.  The further you go, the more
> complex the writing gets and the world becomes.  I think OBW clips along a
> lot more nicely than most of Long Sun.  But it is weird and I can
> understand finding it a bit hard to crack at first.  I didn't think the
> speaking of certain characters in OBW was any more gimmicky than similar
> tropes in Long Sun.
>
> -DOJP
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 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? [?]
>>
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