Wolfe at the Beach: Two Reveiws

------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:07:00 -0500 From: "Rex Lycanthrosaurus" Subject: Re: (urth) Wolfe at the Beach: Two Reviews To: "The Urth Mailing List" Message-ID: <1188356820.744.1207790373 at webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Interestingly, Gibson borrows one of the Wolfe's classic techniques in "Spook Country" -- i.e., refusing to identify a major character by name, in this case "the old man" -- although if you've read "Pattern Recognition," you can probably guess who he most likely is. Similarly, Father Christopher's last name is never stated in Pirate Freedom, although Wolfe does provide several clues about its ultimate identity. Perhaps it's even the same as a certain list alumnus -- one with a hard to pronounce Italian name? On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:43:11 -0700 (PDT), "Stuart Hamm" said: Amen to the Gibson plug...I loved "Spook..." although not quite as much as "Pattern Recognition" Philip K Dick meets Paul Auster I just wish he was as prolific as GW and I didn't have to wait so long between releases

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