<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Maybe he likes Gaiman's sense of humor...Have you read "A Walking Tour Of The Shambles:? It's pretty funny......<br><br><div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> <font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></span><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> </div><div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;"><br></span></span></span><span
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<i><cnbrewer@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Craig Brewer <cnbrewer@yahoo.com><br>Subject: (urth) Wolfe and Gaiman<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Sunday, January 2, 2011, 1:34 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I have a very general question that I hope people don't mind me just throwing <br>out there. I've finally gotten around to reading Neil Gaiman (Sandman and his <br>non-comics stuff) after years of only knowing him by reputation/summary. But the <br>mutual praise between Wolfe and Gaiman always made me think that he had to be <br>more interesting than I suspected he might be. So now, after reading quite a <br>bit, I can say that I enjoy his stuff, but it's such a different experience from <br>Wolfe that I really wonder why these two so often link themselves with each <br>other.<br><br>I think the
main thing that amazes me is that, while both deal with a kind of <br>"deep mythology" attitude toward sf/fantasy, Gaiman's procedure is very <br>straightforward and fable-like while Wolfe's is so much more oblique. Of course, <br>they don't have to be doing the same thing to respect each other...but I just <br>feel like I see many more differences than similarities when I read Gaiman.<br><br>So am I dense? Does anyone else have some better insight into their relationship <br>(personal, professional, stylistic, thematic, or otherwise) or have a more <br>articulate (and interesting) way to compare them? I think this is probably a <br>situation where I want to see what Wolfe sees in Gaiman, but I'm not entirely <br>sure that I do.<br><br><br><br> <br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net"
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