I would have no problem reading it or any Wolfe book on a train. But I generally remove the dustwrapper from hardcovers while I read them.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Marc Aramini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">marcaramini@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net" target="_blank">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br></div>Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 12:10 PM<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Antonin Scriabin</a> </div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;display:inline;font-family:'Calibri';color:#000000;font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none">> The art for Wolfe's books is so hit and miss!  The Richard Bober illustrations </div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;display:inline;font-family:'Calibri';color:#000000;font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none">> for the Long Sun books are awesome, and particular favorites of mine.  This </div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;display:inline;font-family:'Calibri';color:#000000;font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none">It’s nice that they did something different.  Not so nice that they did it so horribly.</div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;display:inline;font-family:'Calibri';color:#000000;font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none">That was the first Wolfe book I ever saw, I was like in the fourth grade or so and my father's co-worker gave me all his used sci-fi magazines and SFbook club hardback books after he was done with them.  Claw of the conciliator, book club hardback with that illustration - I had to go look for Shadow and buy a used paperback to read it.  </div>
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