Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun

ph · 15 Feb 1986, 16:29 · from net.sf-lovers.1986.mbox

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From: ph at wucec2.UUCP
Subject: Re: Re: Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun
Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 11:29:39 EST
Message-ID: <1354 at wucec2.UUCP>
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
References: <194 at analog.UUCP> <3840005 at csd2.UUCP> <651 at edison.UUCP> <1808 at hammer.UUCP>

In article <1808 at hammer.UUCP> patcl at hammer.UUCP (Pat Clancy) writes:
>>I read Shadow of the Torturer and thought it was horrible.
>
>I'll second that!  This was an outstandingly bad novel.
>Yet it seems that every year or so the Wulf-cultists must
>issue forth onto the net to demonstrate why there's such
>a large and uncritical market for so much bad SF.

	    Oh, for [insert favorite messiah here]'s sake!  A little
	tolerance, PLEASE?!?  Whatever your opinion of WOlfE's work (or
	anyone else's for that matter), it's not that difficult (or
	doesn't have to be) to understand and admit that someone else's
	may well be different.  I like THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN.  I fully
	realize that the reasons for which I like it may not apply to
	you.  If they don't, I may question you about it, and ask you to
	explain your position, but I will do my damnedest NOT to abuse
	you about it.  Can you do me the same courtesy?
							--pH
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