(urth) Mostly Spoiler Free Thoughts on Home Fires

[Jeff Wilson]

On 3/2/2011 1:52 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
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> On Mar 2, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>  wrote:
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>> On 3/2/2011 11:55 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>>> Well, first of all, there seems to be a complete lack of wolves. Not a
>>> one, unless I missed something.
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>>> The "meditation" sections often seem to be lessons from Gene Wolfe
>>> about how to reason out the plot details of his novels.
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>>> This is one of the most emotionally satisfying books GW has ever written.
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>>> Kind of shapeless, plotwise.
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>> It's boy meets girl overall, with pirates and spies and a whodunnit as the obstacles to overcome.
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>> There's also almost a total lack of technical detail of any kind, and the SFnal elements are barely more than tokens.
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> Glad to hear. I've been waiting for a simple review like this.

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