(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty

[Antonin Scriabin]

"And Tim Powers, two steps below Laff literarily, and one below Wolfe, I
think is very worth checking out for another highly original Catholic
writer of wonderfully bizarre fiction."

I have only read *The Anubis Gates, *but hope to read more by Powers soon.
*The Anubis Gates* is one of the best time-travel novels I have read; he
really takes pains to make sure the story is well constructed, and that
paradoxes aren't left hanging or resolved cheaply.  *Last Call* is supposed
to be one of his best, but I haven't read it yet.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Yes, they are very unrelated except with perhaps some eschatological
> ruminations.
>
> Well, they are okay, but not as good as The Devil Is Dead or Fourth
> Mansions - some memorable scenes (like a more than natural reporter who
> always wanted to beat the heavyweight champion of the world morphing into
> some kind of big pugilist with impossible reach to defeat the current
> champion) but overall not Lafferty's best.  He really is best at the short
> story level or when doing something weird with langauge and storytelling
> like The Devil is Dead.  For sure worth reading, but not "great".
>
> --- On *Tue, 4/17/12, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
>
> Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 6:51 AM
>
>
> Not to go too off topic, but I was wondering what your opinion of *
> Apocalypses* was.  It is the last Lafferty I own that I have to read.  It
> is two distinct novellas, correct?
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com<http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=marcaramini@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
>
> Do you really have all those short stories?  All the collected volumes are
> exorbitantly expensive except for the most common one, 900 Grandmothers.
>
> I have always wrestled with the decision to purchase them or not - it's
> never a tough decision with Wolfe but I am not quite as devoted to
> Lafferty, though someday I really want to read the bulk of his work.  I've
> read Past Master, Fourth Mansions, Apocalypses, The Devil is Dead, Reefs of
> Earth, and 900 Grandmothers and very little else except the odd story I
> happened to have in my magazine collection.
>
> --- On Mon, 4/16/12, Dave Lebling <dlebling at hyraxes.com<http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dlebling@hyraxes.com>>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Dave Lebling <dlebling at hyraxes.com<http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dlebling@hyraxes.com>
> >
> > Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
> > To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net<http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=urth@lists.urth.net>
> >
> > Date: Monday, April 16, 2012, 3:19 PM
>  > Had I known about this, I probably
> > could have done as well as the
> > winner. Lafferty has been one of my favorite authors since
> > the dawn of time.
> >
> > Lafferty's alcoholism was no secret even back in the early
> > days, by the way.
> >
> > Dave Lebling
> >
> > On 4/15/2012 9:33 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> > > http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=18066
> > >
> > >
> http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Secret_Crocodiles_and_Strange_Doings__or_Sometimes
> > >
> > > I hadn't read about his alcoholism before, although
> > given all the
> > > drinking in his stories, it doesn't surprise me.
> > >
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