case cephalothorax/URTH

Michael Andre-Driussi27 May 2002, 14:25original as archived

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Cephalothorax wrote: That as Urth for me. I was annoyed and confused when I first read it. It just seemed to be a bunch more stuff tacked onto the end of TBOTLS. After reading this list for awhile, and then re-reading TBOTLS and Urth, I'm stunned and embarrassed that I missed so much. Hmm... add Free_Live_Free, which I still have reservations about, but appreciate a lot more after reading this list and then rereading. Both of these revisions occured... oh jeez, could it have been six years ago? Has this list really been around that long? Jumpin' Jiminy.

Thank you for giving us this example. It seems that you disliked URTH on first read because it seemed jumbled, pointless, and/or it did not add anything to your reading of TBOTNS. (This puts you in with a recognizable group of people who liked TBOTNS but disliked URTH.) But then after being exposed to the coffeehouse of ideas around here, you re-read URTH. You were surprised at confronting your first reading, yes, but did you/do you actually =like= the book now? Did you change from disliking it to liking it? Or is it more that you still dislike it but respect it now? Probably there were several little things, but if you can, please tell what was the single most revelatory idea from the list that changed your view? =mantis= SIRIUS FICTION booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley Lexicon Urthus out of print! http://www.siriusfiction.com/

Alice K. Turner28 May 2002, 01:19original as archived

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From: "Michael Andre-Driussi" <mantis at siriusfiction.com> Cephalothorax wrote:

That as Urth for me. I was annoyed and confused when I first read it. It just seemed to be a bunch more stuff tacked onto the end of TBOTLS. After reading this list for awhile, and then re-reading TBOTLS and Urth, I'm stunned and embarrassed that I missed so much.

Probably there were several little things, but if you can, please tell what was the single most revelatory idea from the list that changed your view?

I would like to know this too. I am among the minority who found URTH absolutely necessary, and who have never been able to understand the hostility of the majority--the ones who want to segregate it from the trio. -alga