(urth) Are old questions OK?
Scott K
scott at skatemonk.com
Fri Oct 20 02:21:41 PDT 2006
Hi all-
I only recently joined the list, having first waited until I'd
finished "Return To The Whorl" to avoid any spoilers. I've chimed in a
couple of times about this and that, the comic book version and
whatnot, but have been shy about posing new questions which may have
come up a million times before. I have come to the conclusion that,
like in scuba diving, there are really very few truly dumb questions,
though on a list like this they may have been discussed before ad
nauseum. Therefore I feel emboldened to ask a few questions of my own,
starting with (as a somewhat basic starting point):
-What's the general reception in these rarified Wolfe circles of the
Borsky book, "Solar Labyrinth?" I found it an interesting read for the
first few chapters, having skipped to areas I found of most interest,
but on reading the whole thing through I'm dead set against some of his
assertations, and thinking that he's seeing too much into everything
for his own aggrandizement, i.e. "the Navigator was JFK." What? That
seems to me the most silly thing in the book, though overall he brings
up a lot of good points, but I've never seen the Wolfe series dissected
and discussed by anyone before. I know the Urth archives go back a long
ways but I'm not sifting through all of that at once. Ultan's place on
a day pass! Most of the friends I've recommended it to had trouble
getting through it, or they read it as straight sci-fi on the surface
and didn't notice any of the finer details, mostly waiting for the next
sword fight or monster, or whatever. I've just never heard it discussed
much, but I feel I have a good foundation now in some of the book's
basic mysteries, thanks in part no doubt to the Borsky book, but what
do you all think of his work overall? I think he raises a lot of good
questions but some of his conclusions are kinda crazy to the point
where it seems that every minor character with a scrap of dialogue has
a blood tie to Sev or the Autarch, or some secret circle that was never
really mentioned in the text ("magicians"). So, let the flaming begin-
comments, anyone? Besides, the misogyny streak is kinda starting to
bore me and I never read Dr. Island, but thinking of picking up Peace
and Doors...
-Scott K.
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