(urth) Words and Such art

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

I would have no problem reading it or any Wolfe book on a train. But I
generally remove the dustwrapper from hardcovers while I read them.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> --- On *Tue, 10/25/11, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>* wrote:
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> From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Words and Such art
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> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 12:10 PM
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>  *From:* Antonin Scriabin<http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kierkegaurdian@gmail.com>
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>  > The art for Wolfe's books is so hit and miss!  The Richard Bober
> illustrations
>  > for the Long Sun books are awesome, and particular favorites of mine.
> This
>  > one, one the other hand, not so much:
>  >  http://www.lwcurrey.com/pictures/114676.jpg.  As I recall, Severian
> was
>  >  the opposite of nonchalant (chalant?) at that particular scene.
>  It’s nice that they did something different.  Not so nice that they did
> it so horribly.
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>  [ ] would read on train
>  [x] would not read on train
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>  - Gerry Quinn
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>  That was the first Wolfe book I ever saw, I was like in the fourth grade
> or so and my father's co-worker gave me all his used sci-fi magazines and
> SFbook club hardback books after he was done with them.  Claw of the
> conciliator, book club hardback with that illustration - I had to go look
> for Shadow and buy a used paperback to read it.
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>  I might read it on the train just for the snickers, then I could start
> extolling his literary virtues to the disbelief of my fellow passengers.
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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