(urth) Pandora + new reader questions
Adam Greenhill
thrax at fastmail.com
Mon Oct 7 09:02:34 PDT 2019
Thanks all. The Tartarus Books rabbit hole was a good shout for future reference. Somehow I'd not heard of AddAll before either!
Adam
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019, at 10:24 AM, Mo Holkar wrote:
> (UK reader) yeah I just use AddAll, to be honest.
> I don't know of any dealers who would specialize in this kind of thing.
>
> best,
>
> Mo
>
>
>
> At 20:28 02/10/2019, you wrote:
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> >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
> ><mailto:matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com>matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com:
> >>I donât know how many UK readers are here,
> >>but if youâre looking for reliable dealers,
> >>maybe check on the Tartarus Press website which
> >>stores carry their books? Wolfe never published
> >>with them, but I expect theyâd 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.Â
> >>
> >>Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>On Oct 2, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Adam Greenhill
> >><<mailto:thrax at fastmail.com>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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