(urth) Sorcerer's House: First Impressions *spoilage*

[Jonathan Goodwin]

I haven't read the review, but "love of the main characters for each
other" strikes me as irony.

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> John Clute's review just appeared in NYRSF (alongside yours of _The Long Man_, so this is probably not news to you in particular), and his reaction was remarkably similar!
>>
>> Since I just read it a few minutes ago, I have it at hand. His summary: "...I believe in Baxter Dunn... Because I wanted a Wolfe novel to read in a single sitting without escaping us utterly, and that by virtue of that single sitting love might be conveyed: Wolfe's love of telling, the love of the main characters of _House_ for each other, the love felt by the reader for a book whose author may, for once in his life, have told a tall tale around the campfire. I believed every word of it."
>
> Oh noes - he believed the last letter too?
>
> /me shakes head at Clute
>
> What happened, man? You used to be cool.
>
> --
> gwern
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