<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">>"I think I'm the first Canadian to chime in here. I'm 25, I teach music and<br>>English in a high school in Winnipeg, and I first read the Severian books<br>>about ten years ago when the Science Fiction Book Club was offering them as<br>>an omnibus. I read it all, enjoyed it and found it pretty confusing. Then<br>>about three years ago I saw the Short Sun books in the discount bin at my<br>>local bookstore. Bought those, read them, went after the rest of the Sun<br>>books, then started branching out to Wolfe's other works.<br><br>>I have managed to get my brother to read the New Sun series as well as Fifth<br>>Head of Cerberus. I signed up to this list mostly because I'm not smart<br>>enough to decipher Wolfe on my own (sad, but true). I
believe it was<br>>"Tracking Song" that finally made me seek outside help.<br><br>>Is anyone else noticing that there aren't a lot of women on this list?<br><br>>Matt"<br><br>I don't ever reply to anything on this list, but I assure you, I have been reading it. Matt, probably anyone is smart enough to decipher Wolfe, but it takes too damned long trying to figure it out. Which is why I also signed onto to this list. I started reading Wolfe about two years ago (I was fourteen), and before then I was very into Heinlein, Zelazny, and Clarke, but Heinlein more than any of the others. I love his writing style. <br>However, as an autonomist discerning the priesthood (maybe), I can't stand his libertarian philosophy. I believe I stopped reading him at "Starship Troopers". Which was when I found the "Wizard Knight". And I've been reading Wolfe ever since. I'm a slow reader, but everything that I've read of his has been really <br>worthwhile, especially
the BOTNS.<br><br>I have met ONE woman who has read Wolfe, and she was a librarian. It was really odd, because I asked for <br>our public library to get a copy of the Fifth Head of Cerberus, and she practically jumped. I don't think she was expecting that. Other than that, I know that I have lent my copy of "Soldier in the Mist" to a friend of mine who is a girl, but I she never got past the first fifty pages. I only lent it her because I knew she was interested in Greek mythology. Before that, I suggested she read the BOTNS, but she freaked out over one of the torture methods. To think, I had to read "Pride and Prejudice" for no reward. Damn.<br><br>Patrick<br></div><br>
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