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<DIV>Well, they are okay, but not as good as The Devil Is Dead or Fourth Mansions - some memorable scenes (like a more than natural reporter who always wanted to beat the heavyweight champion of the world morphing into some kind of big pugilist with impossible reach to defeat the current champion) but overall not Lafferty's best. He really is best at the short story level or when doing something weird with langauge and storytelling like The Devil is Dead. For sure worth reading, but not "great".<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 4/17/12, Antonin Scriabin <I><kierkegaurdian@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty<BR>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><BR>Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 6:51 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv1579835941>Not to go too off topic, but I was wondering what your opinion of <I>Apocalypses</I> was. It is the last Lafferty I own that I have to read. It is two distinct novellas, correct?<BR><BR>
<DIV class=yiv1579835941gmail_quote>On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Marc Aramini <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=marcaramini@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">marcaramini@yahoo.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=yiv1579835941gmail_quote>Do you really have all those short stories? All the collected volumes are exorbitantly expensive except for the most common one, 900 Grandmothers.<BR><BR>I have always wrestled with the decision to purchase them or not - it's never a tough decision with Wolfe but I am not quite as devoted to Lafferty, though someday I really want to read the bulk of his work. I've read Past Master, Fourth Mansions, Apocalypses, The Devil is Dead, Reefs of Earth, and 900 Grandmothers and very little else except the odd story I happened to have in my magazine collection.<BR><BR>--- On Mon, 4/16/12, Dave Lebling <<A href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dlebling@hyraxes.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:dlebling@hyraxes.com">dlebling@hyraxes.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> From: Dave Lebling <<A
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<DIV class=yiv1579835941h5>> Had I known about this, I probably<BR>> could have done as well as the<BR>> winner. Lafferty has been one of my favorite authors since<BR>> the dawn of time.<BR>><BR>> Lafferty's alcoholism was no secret even back in the early<BR>> days, by the way.<BR>><BR>> Dave Lebling<BR>><BR>> On 4/15/2012 9:33 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:<BR>> > <A href="http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=18066" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=18066</A><BR>> ><BR>> > <A href="http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Secret_Crocodiles_and_Strange_Doings__or_Sometimes" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Secret_Crocodiles_and_Strange_Doings__or_Sometimes</A><BR>> ><BR>> > I hadn't read about his alcoholism before, although<BR>> given all the<BR>> > drinking in his stories, it doesn't surprise
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