(urth) Jeff VanderMeer

Jordon Flato jordonflato at gmail.com
Fri May 14 17:24:19 PDT 2010


Huh...I found it to be the most compelling of the three.  I found FINCH to
be the most underwhelming, mostly because if felt like a well written China
Meiville story:  nice and pretty but with not as much, what, soul? to it?

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I know this isn't the place for Vandermeer discussion...but for those
> interested, I'd have to say that _Shriek_ is the least successful of
> Vandermeer's three Ambergris novels. The premise is a blast (a missing
> brother has left behind a book, found by his sister, who decides to write an
> afterward to it explaining their lives...but the sister is now missing and
> the brother has found the book and is now commenting on her afterward by
> inserting notes as she tells it). But the execution becomes bogged down a
> bit halfway through once we basically know the whole story. And the
> character examination to me became a bit repetitive rather than illuminating
> at the same point.
>
> The book that introduces the city of Ambergris, _City of Saints and
> Madmen_, though would I think be plenty interesting to Wolfe (and Crowley)
> fans for its variety of styles/mysteries/histories/wonders.
>
>
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> *From:* Mike Myers <mimyerspdt at yahoo.com>
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> Shriek is a great book, one of my all time favorites.
>
> --- On *Tue, 5/11/10, JBarach at aol.com <JBarach at aol.com>* wrote:
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> From: JBarach at aol.com <JBarach at aol.com>
> Subject: (urth) Jeff VanderMeer
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 3:32 PM
>
>  URTHers --
>
> I glanced at a copy of Jeff VanderMeer's recent novel, *Shriek -- An
> Afterword*, and discovered that it has a blurb by Gene Wolfe:
>
> "Here is a desert island book, a tale you can lose yourself in for days, a
> novel of character in which the setting -- the magnificently gritty
> city-state named Ambergris -- proves as the light fails to be the finest
> character of all."
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Shriek-Afterword-Jeff-VanderMeer/dp/0765314665
>
> I wish someone were keeping track of all the books Wolfe has blurbed....
>
> John
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