(urth) instant new fan

[Daniel Petersen]

Yes, so many truly wonderful lines and passages.  I remember loving the
really robust mountainous language at the beginning of SotL, starting with
the sentence:  'Thrax is a crooked dagger entering the heart of the
mountains.'

You know, I don't think I've ever seen Wolfe's writing (as in style or tone
or texture of prose, etc.) discussed on this list.

-DOJP

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:58 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> On 12/18/2011 7:59 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
>
>> Thought people here might enjoy seeing that new readers are still
>> discovering Wolfe for the very first time and being instantly enchanted.  A
>> friend of mine (an aspiring writer) who loves Tolkien and China Mieville
>> finally, at my persistent insistence, obtained BotNS and posted this to me
>> on Facebook just now about what he's read so far:
>>
>> 'I love the languid, ivy-wrapped prose that Wolfe writes in. I've been
>> discovering that this is a style I find myself entranced by when I read it.
>> I was not long ago working through Titus Groan and found myself ensconced
>> by many of the same elements that I'm loving in Wolfe's writing. Mr. Wolfe
>> seems much better at marrying plot and poesy than Mr. Peake, however.
>>
>> I'm very excited about what waits around the corner. BotNS seems like the
>> kind of novel I dream of writing.'
>>
>> Some pretty apt comments, I thought.
>>
>> -DOJP
>>
>
> Cool!
>
> BNS has some of the most gorgeous lines I have ever read. There are many
> others, but I think most often of the description of lotuses on Gyoll in
> CotA immediately after Maxellindis's uncle's talk of what appear to be the
> legions of Erebus:
>
> With that he fell silent, looking out over the nenuphars. We were well
> above that part of
>
> Gyoll opposite the Citadel, but they were still packed more densely than
> wildflowers in
>
> any meadow this side of paradise.
>
>
> This kind of mood/content juxtaposition enraptures me.
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