<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Read it. Liked it in parts - masculine vigor is deified to some degree, and eternal conflict is idealized valhalla style. Not as deep as Wolfe, nor as soul searching, but if you like your men manly and god-like you might appreciate it. (Conflict in the book actually seems better than actually defeating evil - that without that opposition there can be no nobility).<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 4/19/12, Matthew Knight <I><jacobeiserman@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Matthew Knight <jacobeiserman@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: (urth) Eddison [was Re: If I already like ...]<BR>To: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>, "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><BR>Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 8:08 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv1260599715>I read <I>The Worm Ourobouros</I> a couple years back, and it may appeal to you if you are a fan of Wolfe's baroque and archaic elements. The plot and characters are skewed far toward the mythical, and there's approximately a 0.005% element of realism. I seem to remember a lot of "thees" and "thous," but I might be confusing this with William Morris. I don't remember anything about the political elements Jerry is mentioning, but that doesn't necessarily mean much, as I forget a lot. </DIV><BR>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR><BR>
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