An interesting Wolfe article/review

is posted here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/23/the-book-of-the-new-sun-science-fiction-ulysses

Great article! Here's a (minority of one) quote from the comments: "Nope. Sorry. I found it dull, meandering, self-indulgent, derivative, and just plain badly written. Not a single sympathetic character (and barely any characterization worth the name), a paucity of imagination, no pace, no tension, and a sense of weeks wasted once I'd finished. I put my copies in the bin rather than inflict them on anyone else." Now, I can understand "I didn't like it," "I was bored reading it," etc, but sweet baby Jesus, what kind of crap is this joker reading that informs an opinion like that? I hate the works of all kinds of writers, many of them well regarded, but I'm grown up and well read enough to understand that it's a disconnect between myself and the artist's vision, not their lack of skill as a writer. In short, what a tool. Don Doggerel www.don-doggett.blogspot.com