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nastler learns to read

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Malcolm McGugan29 Dec 2002, 20:57originalas archived
nastler learns to read
Hullo. First off I would like to say thanks to Rajit in particular and to all those who have contributed to the discussions about Wolfe that I’ve been reading in the archives. At age 15 I read my first Gene Wolfe book from the local town library, a book chosen on account of the cover (a dude dressed in black with a big sword) and due to being on the sparse sci-fi/fantasy s nastler Har du problemer med din hjemmecomputer? Få hjælp med Yahoo!s PC-support
Malco29 Dec 2002, 21:45originalas archived
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Without HTML codes I try again. At age 15 I read my first Gene Wolfe book from the local town library, a book chosen on account of the cover (a dude dressed in black with a big sword) and due to being on the sparse sci-fi/fantasy shelf. It’s been mentioned in the archives before now but I also feel that one of the (many) things BotNS does is to teach a very casual modern reader like myself how to read books of this kind. Needless to say I followed Severians advice and went straight back to chapter one to enjoy the book again, this time using my newly developing powers of attentive reading to get just that little bit deeper. I was then happy to apply the same techniques to other books, which would certainly have been otherwise beyond me. Gene Wolfe taught me how to read... Har du problemer med din hjemmecomputer? Få hjælp med Yahoo!s PC-support på http://dk.shopping.yahoo.com/pcsupport/index.html

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