<div>--Vance's highly artificial style, especially his dialog consisting<br>largely of exquisitely euphemistic negotiations, gets a little tiresome<br>over the course of a long trilogy. One begins to wish for characters
<br>capable of ordinary conversation.<br> </div>
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<div>Who was it that said, "I like Vance except for his wooden dialogue." To which the other man responded:</div>
<div>"Not wooden. Carved."</div>
<div>But I can understand how it could wear thin on some readers after a long trilogy. Wolfe seems to be much more flexible with his writing than Vance ever was. That is another reason the two writers complement one another so well.
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