(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 67, Issue 10

[Fernando Gouvea]

Reading past that first sentence it becomes clear that Witcover's beef 
is at least partly political. I'm afraid I didn't read past the second 
sentence.

Fernando

On 3/11/2010 11:43 AM, James Wynn wrote:
>> FWIW, Locus review Paul Witcover panned "The Sorcerer's House" "hermetic"
>>   and "like exquisite but finicky puzzle boxes that deny entrance and
>> pleasure to all but a few aficionados who are adept in the strategies
>> necessary to solve them."
>>      
> This is probably true for all Wolfe's novels going back to Fifth Head,
> so I'm not sure I understand Witcover's beef. Even AEG was like The
> Book of the New Sun in that on the first read, I thought I generally
> understood what was going on.
>
> Sometimes Wolfe's novels are more like the puzzle box in Hellraiser.
>
> J.
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Man: "What's this, then?"

Mr. Brown: "A liver donor's card."

Man: "Need we say more?"...

Mr. Brown: "Listen! I can't give it to you now. It says, 'In the event of death.' Uh. Oh! Ah. Ah. Eh."

Man: "No one who has ever had their liver taken out by us has survived."

   -- Monty Pithon's "The Meaning of Life"