(urth) The Land Across moratorium?

Antonin Scriabin kierkegaurdian at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 05:54:26 PST 2013


All done.  I *really* liked this one, and there is so much packed into its
shorter length (*An Evil Guest*, *The Sorcerer's House*, and *Home
Fires*are all longer) that it has me asking way more questions than I
was
expecting.  It will be a great book to dissect on the list.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <
danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

> City & the City's a very good conversation partner to bring in, yes!  I've
> only read the excerpt online of Wolfe's new book but having read Mieville's
> I can already tell they work in shadowing each other.  I recently read
> Wolfe's There Are Doors for the first time and it also is very Kafka-esque
> (referencing Kafka's works explicitly) and the excerpt of TLA reminded me
> of that earlier work as well.  -DOJP
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I also think that comparisons with Mieville's _The City and the City_ are
>> necessary. Whether Wolfe read that or not (anyone know?), the two are
>> definitely similar (and interestingly opposed) in many, many ways.
>>
>>    *From:* Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
>> *To:* Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>; The Urth Mailing List <
>> urth at lists.urth.net>
>> *Sent:* Monday, December 2, 2013 1:33 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: (urth) The Land Across moratorium?
>>
>> I'm going to finish tonight, I have about 40 pages left.  Definitely into
>> Wolfe houses.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  So when do we get to cancel the moratorium on TLA? I've read it once.
>> Anyone else?
>>
>> Oh, how I long to discuss houses, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Peace...
>>
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