(urth) Wolfe and Brust, compare and contrast ;)

[Maru Dubshinki]

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