Thought people here might enjoy seeing that new readers are still discovering Wolfe for the very first time and being instantly enchanted. A friend of mine (an aspiring writer) who loves Tolkien and China Mieville finally, at my persistent insistence, obtained BotNS and posted this to me on Facebook just now about what he's read so far:<div>
<br></div><div><div>'<span style="background-color:rgb(237,239,244);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:14px;text-align:left">I love the languid, ivy-wrapped prose that Wolfe writes in. I've been discovering that this is a style I find myself entranced by when I read it. I was not long ago working through Titus Groan and found myself ensconce</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color:rgb(237,239,244);display:inline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:14px;text-align:left">d by many of the same elements that I'm loving in Wolfe's writing. Mr. Wolfe seems much better at marrying plot and poesy than Mr. Peake, however.</span></div>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(237,239,244)"><br><font color="#333333" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;line-height:14px">I'm very excited about what waits around the corner. BotNS seems like the kind of novel I dream of writing.'</span></font></span>
</div><div><br></div><div>Some pretty apt comments, I thought.</div><div><br></div><div>-DOJP<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>