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<p>I read it as well and everything in the book seems to be a
riddle. How many Erns are there, is the story line mixed up, what
is in the green box, what happens to the key Ern takes from dead
Ern, the status of the ghosts, the relation of the book to
Borrowed Man etc.</p>
<p>Fascinating but frustrating.<br>
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Lebling:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Has anyone read this, and if so, do you have
thoughts?
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<div>I re-read <i>A Borrowed Man</i> before reading <i>Interlibrary
Loan</i>. I had found <i>A Borrowed Man</i> to be very
opaque on first reading, and much more reasonable on a second
reading. (This is my normal pattern with Wolfe; each reading
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<div>I found the first reading of <i>Interlibrary Loan</i> to
be even more opaque, and also a bit disjointed. It was by
turns weird, scary, and funny. I believe it is actually hard
SF rather than Fantasy, which seems to go against a lot of
reviews. It could have used another draft. It is extremely sad
we will never get one.</div>
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