Jerry's link

Michael Straight · 17 Apr 2002, 14:07 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Jerry's link
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:07:49 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, maa32 wrote:

> Hey Jerry, I wish you had never given me that link to that google group=20
> "griping about Wolfe".  I read most of the threads because I wasn't used =
to so=20
> many people blatantly saying that Wolfe was no good!  They weren't just=20
> claiming that he didn't appeal to them, but that he was a bad writer!=20
> I really kind of got upset at a lot of what those guys were saying, so I =
feel=20
> like getting it off my chest to sympathetic ears. You guys can skip this =
if=20
> you want - there is nothing earth shattering or important here.

If it makes you feel any better, I read that group regularly, and there
are some people who don't like Wolfe, but also many eloquent defenders of
his work.  Here's a few good posts in appreciation:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3Dg:thl2103972725d&hl=3Den&selm=3D7ijvge%=
24q83%241%40panix3.panix.com

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3Dg:thl2103972725d&hl=3Den&selm=3D7ik3ne%=
24bgl%241%40panix3.panix.com

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3Dg:thl2103972725d&hl=3Den&selm=3D7ik75e%=
24nsn%241%40panix3.panix.com

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3Dgene+wolfe&hl=3Den&selm=3D1992Mar27.195=
807.11656%40ux1.cso.uiuc.edu&rnum=3D5

And here, look, I found a nice list of definitions for obscure words in
the New Sun books, for those of us without a copy of Lexicon Urthus:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3Dg:thl1791575566d&hl=3Den&selm=3Ddavies-=
2603991410130001%40davies.ils.nwu.edu

-Rostrum


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