(urth) Wolfe and Brust, compare and contrast ;)
Maru Dubshinki
marudubshinki at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 08:17:44 PDT 2005
On 6/8/05, David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Andy Robertson wrote:
>
> > Sarah Dorrance-Minch writes:
> > >
> > > I would LOVE to see a cross-over written by Wolfe and
> > > Steven Brust.
> >
> >
> > Now, I haven't read ANY Brust: is he good??? Is he, uh, Wolfey??
> >
> > hartshorn
>
> You *have* to read at least one of his novels.
>
> _Brokedown Palace_ is pretty indirect. It might be the closest to say
> _Short Sun_. Brust channels Dumas very well too -- I was reading recently
> that Dumas's dialogue is as it is merely because he was paid by the word.
>
>
> David Duffy
Funny- I heard the same exact thing about Dickens.
Probably explains why I never could finish 'the Pickwick Papers'.
Incidentally, have you read "To Reign in Hell"? That sounds like the
most Wolfe-ian of his stuff.
~Maru
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