_The Wizard_ by Gene Wolfe - too much like previous Wolfe

Robert Hutchinson · 08 Nov 2005, 03:44 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2005.mbox

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From: Robert Hutchinson <servoid at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: _The Wizard_ by Gene Wolfe - too much like previous Wolfe
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:44:17 GMT
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Mike Schilling says...
> Thomas Lindgren wrote ...
> > Steve Simmons writes:
> >> For some reason, people who don't get Wolfe seem to realize that there's
> >> something in there that they just didn't get.  Most other authors that
> >> people don't get they don't get that they don't get.
> >
> > You wouldn't be looking for a post as Secretary of Defense, would you?
> 
> Dammit, you evaluate an author with the preconceptions you've got, not the 
> ones you'd like to have. 

Did we read the novel? Yes. 
Was there something there to be gotten? Yes. 
Did we get it? No. 

-- 
Robert Hutchinson | "Audiences won't soon forget when the 
                  |  thing-we-didn't-know-what-it-was was put into
                  |  the helicopter by the guy we didn't know."
                  |    -- Servo, MST3K, 810, Giant Spider Invasion

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