(urth) Hi & a question re: Lexicon Urthus

[Hmpf MacSlow]

Hi there,

I've been thinking for days about what to say here and have finally come to 
the conclusion that there is nothing I can say that would not fall miles 
short of everything that's gone on here before (I've read most of the 
archives by now), so I'll just be shallow and say: this is an amazing list. 
Reading it is almost - not quite - as good as reading Wolfe himself: it 
expands my mind in all kinds of directions and ties my brain in all kinds 
of interesting knots.

One question: is there any way of acquiring the Lexicon Urthus without 
selling my non-existent firstborn for it? I'm a poor student, bereft of the 
means to pay hundreds of euros or dollars for a single book...

Oh, yeah, and just because there don't seem to be many women reading Wolfe, 
at least not on this list, and because I realise my nick is kind of 
neutral, I feel the need to point out that I belong to that rare 
demographic. *g*

What else to say... Well, I've read very little Wolfe so far, just the Book 
of the New Sun and the Urth of the New Sun, and I'm only into my second 
reading of The Shadow of the Torturer (read it first about a year ago, and 
I've only recently been able to buy and read UotNS). Still, even this 
limited contact with his work has propelled Gene Wolfe right to the top of 
my favourites list, next to Tolkien who's been there since I was 16. I 
think it's safe to say that no other book has impressed me as deeply since 
1992, the year I first read LotR, as BotNS has.

And now I'll go back to lurking, I think.

Hmpf





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