<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Thanks all. The Tartarus Books rabbit hole was a good shout for future reference. Somehow I'd not heard of AddAll before either!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Adam<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, 6 Oct 2019, at 10:24 AM, Mo Holkar wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div>(UK reader) yeah I just use AddAll, to be honest. <br></div><div>I don't know of any dealers who would specialize in this kind of thing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>best,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mo<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>At 20:28 02/10/2019, you wrote:<br></div><div>>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;<br></div><div>> boundary="------------C74F7E87A41BF2C53FA42B97"<br></div><div>>Content-Language: en-US<br></div><div>><br></div><div>>Hi,<br></div><div>><br></div><div>>Don't you buy books through search engines like <br></div><div>>Eurobuch and AddAll or a platform like Amazon? I <br></div><div>>order often from Amazon UK, Germany and Abe <br></div><div>>books. In fact both new and second hand books for the last 10 years.<br></div><div>>Op 2-10-2019 om 20:16 schreef <br></div><div>><mailto:matthew.keeley.1@gmail.com>matthew.keeley.1@gmail.com:<br></div><div>>>I donât know how many UK readers are here, <br></div><div>>>but if youâre looking for reliable dealers, <br></div><div>>>maybe check on the Tartarus Press website which <br></div><div>>>stores carry their books? Wolfe never published <br></div><div>>>with them, but I expect theyâd be a *lot* of <br></div><div>>>overlap between dealers that carry Tartarus <br></div><div>>>stuff and dealers that carry Wolfe books. And I <br></div><div>>>have had very good experiences with dealers I found through Tartarus.<br></div><div>>><br></div><div>>>You could also special order most of the <br></div><div>>>in-print titles at most bookstores.Â<br></div><div>>><br></div><div>>>Sent from my iPhone<br></div><div>>><br></div><div>>>On Oct 2, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Adam Greenhill <br></div><div>>><<mailto:thrax@fastmail.com>thrax@fastmail.com> wrote:<br></div><div>>><br></div><div>>>>Hi all,<br></div><div>>>><br></div><div>>>>Recent fan and first time mailer here. I've <br></div><div>>>>been working my way through Wolfe over the <br></div><div>>>>past months -- slowly, as I tend to survive on <br></div><div>>>>secondhand shops for my fiction reading, in which I have found slim pickings.<br></div><div>>>><br></div><div>>>>Through these means I picked up Pandora and <br></div><div>>>>read it (in a day) yesterday. I was surprised <br></div><div>>>>by the seeming earnestness of the book, and <br></div><div>>>>the lack of sci-fi elements, and a quick <br></div><div>>>>search through the list indicates it's not <br></div><div>>>>held in very high regard by some past contributors.<br></div><div>>>><br></div><div>>>>One contributor quoted another writer as <br></div><div>>>>saying, to paraphrase, that every writer must <br></div><div>>>>write a Sherlock Holmes pastiche sooner or <br></div><div>>>>later. But while reading I wondered whether it <br></div><div>>>>was a pastiche of Nabokov's Lolita. Firstly, <br></div><div>>>>the narrator's triple H initials are surely a <br></div><div>>>>tribute to Humbert Humbert. Secondly, the <br></div><div>>>>Foreword 'spoils' some of the ending in much <br></div><div>>>>the way that Nabokov's does (though I suppose <br></div><div>>>>this kind of structure is itself a pastiche of <br></div><div>>>>real narrative accounts that do similar <br></div><div>>>>things). Thirdly I think there are some <br></div><div>>>>similarities in theme, such as the corruption <br></div><div>>>>of youth (where HHH is a sort of Lolita and <br></div><div>>>>Aladdin Blue a sort of HH/Quilty), and in <br></div><div>>>>content, such as the Carmen references <br></div><div>>>>(explicitly invoked by the narrator in chapter <br></div><div>>>>6, but also echoed by the character of Larry <br></div><div>>>>Lief (another alliterative name) -- military background, womanizer, etc).<br></div><div>>>><br></div><div>>>>This isn't to say that I think it's a <br></div><div>>>>particularly deep novel, but I do wonder if <br></div><div>>>>Wolfe threw a few things like this in to add <br></div><div>>>>interest to what is otherwise a fairly <br></div><div>>>>pedestrian crime story. Couldn't find this discussed in the list before.<br></div><div>>>><br></div><div>>>>--<br></div><div>>>><br></div><div>>>>On a separate note: as I mentioned, it's hard <br></div><div>>>>to track Wolfe books down without engaging the <br></div><div>>>>daunting marketplace websites like eBay. I was <br></div><div>>>>wondering if anyone in the UK had any <br></div><div>>>>recommendations for where to find good copies <br></div><div>>>>of his works (preferably all of the same <br></div><div>>>>edition and all from the same dealer). I'm <br></div><div>>>>mainly looking to continue reading the Urth <br></div><div>>>>books after devouring the New Sun series <br></div><div>>>>earlier this year, though I might try to pick up the Best Of too.<br></div><div>>>><br></div><div>>>>--<br></div><div>>>><br></div><div>>>>Hope this reaches everyone okay and looking <br></div><div>>>>forward to continuing correspondence with you all,<br></div><div>>>><br></div><div>>>>Adam (Thrax)<br></div><div>>>>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>>>>Urth Mailing List<br></div><div>>>>To post, write <mailto:urth@urth.net>urth@urth.net<br></div><div>>>>Subscription/information: <http://www.urth.net>http://www.urth.net<br></div><div>>><br></div><div>>><br></div><div>>>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>>>Urth Mailing List<br></div><div>>>To post, write <mailto:urth@urth.net>urth@urth.net<br></div><div>>>Subscription/information: <http://www.urth.net>http://www.urth.net<br></div><div>>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>>Urth Mailing List<br></div><div>>To post, write urth@urth.net<br></div><div>>Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net<br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Urth Mailing List<br></div><div>To post, write urth@urth.net<br></div><div>Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>