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Urth Digest, Vol 67, Issue 10

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Kieran Mullen10 Mar 2010, 22:40as archived
Urth Digest, Vol 67, Issue 10
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On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:11 PM, urth-request at lists.urth.net wrote: Message: 1 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:28:40 -0600 From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> Subject: (urth) Lawrence Person Sort of Reviews The Sorcerer's House http://www.lawrenceperson.com/?p=941 He also has a picture of Wolfe at ReaderCon last year: http://www.lawrenceperson.com/?tag=science-fiction
FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned "The Sorcerer's House" "hermetic" and "like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and pleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in the strategies necessary to solve them." How about putting that on the back of a book cover as a blurb....(!) Kieran
James Wynn11 Mar 2010, 16:43as archived
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FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned "The Sorcerer's House" "hermetic" ?and "like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and pleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in the strategies necessary to solve them."
This is probably true for all Wolfe's novels going back to Fifth Head, so I'm not sure I understand Witcover's beef. Even AEG was like The Book of the New Sun in that on the first read, I thought I generally understood what was going on. Sometimes Wolfe's novels are more like the puzzle box in Hellraiser. J.
Fernando Gouvea11 Mar 2010, 16:52as archived
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Reading past that first sentence it becomes clear that Witcover's beef is at least partly political. I'm afraid I didn't read past the second sentence. Fernando
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On 3/11/2010 11:43 AM, James Wynn wrote: FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned "The Sorcerer's House" "hermetic" and "like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and pleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in the strategies necessary to solve them."
This is probably true for all Wolfe's novels going back to Fifth Head, so I'm not sure I understand Witcover's beef. Even AEG was like The Book of the New Sun in that on the first read, I thought I generally understood what was going on. Sometimes Wolfe's novels are more like the puzzle box in Hellraiser. J. _______________________________________________ Urth Mailing List To post, write urth at urth.net Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
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