(urth) Pandora + new reader questions
Ab de Vos
foxyab at casema.nl
Wed Oct 2 12:28:59 PDT 2019
Hi,
Don't you buy books through search engines like Eurobuch and AddAll or a
platform like Amazon? I order often from Amazon UK, Germany and Abe
books. In fact both new and second hand books for the last 10 years.
Op 2-10-2019 om 20:16 schreef matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com:
> I don’t know how many UK readers are here, but if you’re looking for
> reliable dealers, maybe check on the Tartarus Press website which
> stores carry their books? Wolfe never published with them, but I
> expect they’d be a *lot* of overlap between dealers that carry
> Tartarus stuff and dealers that carry Wolfe books. And I have had very
> good experiences with dealers I found through Tartarus.
>
> You could also special order most of the in-print titles at most
> bookstores.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 2, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Adam Greenhill <thrax at fastmail.com
> <mailto:thrax at fastmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Recent fan and first time mailer here. I've been working my way
>> through Wolfe over the past months -- slowly, as I tend to survive on
>> secondhand shops for my fiction reading, in which I have found slim
>> pickings.
>>
>> Through these means I picked up Pandora and read it (in a day)
>> yesterday. I was surprised by the seeming earnestness of the book,
>> and the lack of sci-fi elements, and a quick search through the list
>> indicates it's not held in very high regard by some past contributors.
>>
>> One contributor quoted another writer as saying, to paraphrase, that
>> every writer must write a Sherlock Holmes pastiche sooner or later.
>> But while reading I wondered whether it was a pastiche of Nabokov's
>> /Lolita/. Firstly, the narrator's triple H initials are surely a
>> tribute to Humbert Humbert. Secondly, the Foreword 'spoils' some of
>> the ending in much the way that Nabokov's does (though I suppose this
>> kind of structure is itself a pastiche of real narrative accounts
>> that do similar things). Thirdly I think there are some similarities
>> in theme, such as the corruption of youth (where HHH is a sort of
>> Lolita and Aladdin Blue a sort of HH/Quilty), and in content, such as
>> the Carmen references (explicitly invoked by the narrator in chapter
>> 6, but also echoed by the character of Larry Lief (another
>> alliterative name) -- military background, womanizer, etc).
>>
>> This isn't to say that I think it's a particularly deep novel, but I
>> do wonder if Wolfe threw a few things like this in to add interest to
>> what is otherwise a fairly pedestrian crime story. Couldn't find this
>> discussed in the list before.
>>
>> --
>>
>> On a separate note: as I mentioned, it's hard to track Wolfe books
>> down without engaging the daunting marketplace websites like eBay. I
>> was wondering if anyone in the UK had any recommendations for where
>> to find good copies of his works (preferably all of the same edition
>> and all from the same dealer). I'm mainly looking to continue reading
>> the Urth books after devouring the New Sun series earlier this year,
>> though I might try to pick up the Best Of too.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Hope this reaches everyone okay and looking forward to continuing
>> correspondence with you all,
>>
>> Adam (Thrax)
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