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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Don't you buy books through search engines like Eurobuch and
AddAll or a platform like Amazon? I order often from Amazon UK,
Germany and Abe books. In fact both new and second hand books for
the last 10 years.<br>
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I don’t know how many UK readers are here, but if you’re looking
for reliable dealers, maybe check on the Tartarus Press website
which stores carry their books? Wolfe never published with them,
but I expect they’d be a *lot* of overlap between dealers that
carry Tartarus stuff and dealers that carry Wolfe books. And I
have had very good experiences with dealers I found through
Tartarus.
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You could also special order most of the in-print titles at most
bookstores. <br>
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On Oct 2, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Adam Greenhill <<a
href="mailto:thrax@fastmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">thrax@fastmail.com</a>>
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<div>Recent fan and first time mailer here. I've been
working my way through Wolfe over the past months --
slowly, as I tend to survive on secondhand shops for my
fiction reading, in which I have found slim pickings.<br>
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<div>Through these means I picked up Pandora and read it (in
a day) yesterday. I was surprised by the seeming
earnestness of the book, and the lack of sci-fi elements,
and a quick search through the list indicates it's not
held in very high regard by some past contributors.<br>
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<div>One contributor quoted another writer as saying, to
paraphrase, that every writer must write a Sherlock Holmes
pastiche sooner or later. But while reading I wondered
whether it was a pastiche of Nabokov's <i>Lolita</i>.
Firstly, the narrator's triple H initials are surely a
tribute to Humbert Humbert. Secondly, the Foreword
'spoils' some of the ending in much the way that Nabokov's
does (though I suppose this kind of structure is itself a
pastiche of real narrative accounts that do similar
things). Thirdly I think there are some similarities in
theme, such as the corruption of youth (where HHH is a
sort of Lolita and Aladdin Blue a sort of HH/Quilty), and
in content, such as the Carmen references (explicitly
invoked by the narrator in chapter 6, but also echoed by
the character of Larry Lief <span style="font-size: 10px"
class="size">(another alliterative name)</span> --
military background, womanizer, etc).<br>
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<div>This isn't to say that I think it's a particularly deep
novel, but I do wonder if Wolfe threw a few things like
this in to add interest to what is otherwise a fairly
pedestrian crime story. Couldn't find this discussed in
the list before.<br>
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<div>On a separate note: as I mentioned, it's hard to track
Wolfe books down without engaging the daunting marketplace
websites like eBay. I was wondering if anyone in the UK
had any recommendations for where to find good copies of
his works (preferably all of the same edition and all from
the same dealer). I'm mainly looking to continue reading
the Urth books after devouring the New Sun series earlier
this year, though I might try to pick up the Best Of too.<br>
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<div>Hope this reaches everyone okay and looking forward to
continuing correspondence with you all,<br>
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<div>Adam (Thrax)<br>
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