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Kieran Mullen05 Nov 1999, 11:46originalas archived
Digest urth.v028.n077
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From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> Subject: True Confession? Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 00:05:07 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Compare that with this excerpt from John Clute's review of OBW, recently cited on the Whorl list: ( http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/excess.html )
Oh, MAN is that a badly written review. "But Severian himself has much to hide, and the text of his "confession" has become a honeypot for puzzle-solving readers." (Shudder). Kieran Mullen
Alex David Groce05 Nov 1999, 13:02originalas archived
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Clute's reviews in SF Weekly have tended to be like that--Clute at his most pontificating and (usually) least enlightening. The Hal Clement review is the one I like best, for some reason. Really a shame, given that I'd suppose it's possible it's his largest audience. The Fantasy Encyclopedia is, I'd argue, even better than the SF Encyclopedia. It leaves more out because it has a much larger, really, ground to tackle, but what's there is very good (including nice articles on most everyone, save Proust, who could be thought of as a major influence on Wolfe--very nice ones on Chesterton and Lewis by our list's own Dave Langford). "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
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Michael Straight05 Nov 1999, 13:03originalas archived
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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Kieran Mullen wrote: Oh, MAN is that a badly written review.
And don't forget the big hairy spoilers. If you haven't read the Long Sun books yet, don't read that review. -Rostrum
Daniel Fusch05 Nov 1999, 19:12originalas archived
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Oh, MAN is that a badly written review.
No kidding...when I read that excerpt, it sent linguistic chills up my grammatical/literary spine. It's just awful!

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