Subject: Kirkus review of RttW

Henry Kaiser17 Dec 2000, 11:53original as archived

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Also, this time, Wolfe provides a typically elusive recap and update guaranteed to disconcert readers not already perplexed--

hmmm, no recap & update in the bound advance that I read.....

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Wolfe’s demands on his readers grow more onerous

with every volume. I thought the "demands" grew more DELIGHTFUL, rather than ONEROUS...... H. Kaiser *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

Michael Andre-Driussi17 Dec 2000, 13:08original as archived

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Henry Kaiser, he quoted Kirkus the bile & wrote: Wolfe’s demands on his readers grow more onerous with every volume.

I thought the "demands" grew more DELIGHTFUL, rather than ONEROUS......

Right, well that's because Kirkus says that you and your ilk are not "mere mortals"! Whoo-hoo! If such a big deal is to be made of the labor, I'm surprised the duct didn't just say "the conclusion of a seven book series" or even "the climax (?) of a twelve book series," and then link Wolfe's Briah to Robert Jordan's huge series (alga and Patrick O'Leary and I all remember WFC Monterey and the fight that broke out over the issue of devoting review space to the nth-volume in a huge series). (And oh, those hard words in TBOTNS!!) Probably wanted to, but ran out of space! Oh well, lump of coal for Kirkus; another candidate for future humor in "Rotten Reviews." =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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