<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Arial"><i>DOJP has written a few great reviews of his Lafferty explorations on his blog recently, which I note that he's too modest to mention here :)</i></div><div style="font-family:Arial">
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<div style="font-family:Arial"><i>Cheers,</i></div><div style="font-family:Arial"><i>Mark</i></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:medium"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:medium">Ha, thanks, Mark - for once in my life I'm too modest! It's great to hear of all these other book review bloggers lurking about on this Wolfe forum. I'll be checking out your stuffs! </div>
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<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:medium" dir="ltr"><div>De-lurking to say that I, too, am on a bit of a Lafferty drive at the moment, having just acquired <em>Fourth Mansions </em>and the collection <em>Does Anyone Else Have Something to Add? </em>I really enjoyed <em>Past Master </em>a couple of years back and I'm looking forward to reading more Lafferty. Hard to get hold of in the UK though.</div>
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<div>DOJP has written a few great reviews of his Lafferty explorations on his blog recently, which I note that he's too modest to mention here :)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Just finished R. A. Lafferty's late novel <span style="font-style:italic">Serpent's Egg</span> (1987) last week - mad brilliance as always. (Read John Williams's <span style="font-style:italic">Butcher's Crossing</span> just before that - existential buffalo hunting, ya can't beat that.) Reading the stories in the new Centipede Press volume 1 of Lafferty's complete short stories - whenever I have the chance to sit down and carefully handle the book (as I usually have books thrust in a backpack getting bent up as I read them all over the place in between everything). Have already read all those stories, but hugely enjoying revisiting them, especially in a quality physical format worthy of them.
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<div>Realised I hadn't finished the last 30 or so pages of King's <span style="font-style:italic">Salem's Lot</span>, so gonna round that out.</div>
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<div>Recently read a 200 page poem from the Middle Ages called <span style="font-style:italic">Piers Plowman</span> (14th c.) - it was for a course I'm in. <span style="font-style:italic">Paradise Lost</span> is one of my all time fave long poems and <span style="font-style:italic">Piers </span>has probably shot right up there with it. The latter actually makes a very interesting contrast to the former in just about every respect. (And to be reductively categorical, I'd say Wolfe is more Milton while Lafferty is more <span style="font-style:italic">Piers</span> - the former 'high' and the latter 'low', both genius and both all-encompassing and stretching imagination to its limits, each in its respective way).</div>
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<div>Really torn about what novel to get into next. Thinking of another King just for simple fun. Maybe Wolfe's <span style="font-style:italic">The Sorcerer's House</span> - that's the next one up for me in the post-2000 novels I haven't read. Maybe McCarthy, maybe Michael Bishop, maybe Dan Simmons... I dunno.</div>
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<div>On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Antonin Scriabin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" target="_blank">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:
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<div>Hello, Urthlings. What are you reading these days? I haven't been reading much Wolfe lately, so nothing is fresh enough in my mind to participate in some of the other ongoing discussions.<br>
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I am working my way through the Harvard Classics. I just finished the fourth volume, the complete poems in English by John Milton. <span style="font-style:italic">Paradise Lost </span>was a treat, as was Franklin's autobiography in the first volume and the <span style="font-style:italic">New Atlantis </span>by Bacon in the third, which is an old favorite of mine from my philosophy major days.<br>
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I've also recently read <span style="font-style:italic">The Sea, the Sea </span>by Iris Murdoch, which was excellent, and <span style="font-style:italic">The City of Dreaming Books </span>by Moers, which was great, silly fun<span style="font-style:italic">.</span> I also read the first 50 pages of <span style="font-style:italic">Lookout Cartridge</span> by McElroy and decided to put it back on the shelf for the time being. It wasn't particularly <span style="font-style:italic">bad, </span>it was just entirely unsuccessful in grabbing my attention within a reasonable amount of time, together with being written in a very disjointed, unique style. I will probably get back to it in the near future.<br>
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Anyway, I am getting back on a Wolfe kick today by finishing the latter half of <span style="font-style:italic">The Island of Doctor Death, and Other Stories, and Other Stories</span>. Looking forward to it!</div>
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