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Posted 2016-05-09 1:41 PM (#13529 - in reply to #13419)
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CDR_Bill - 2016-04-30 2:48 PM

That did it! The reviews not showing were all set for the "private" default.

It took me a bit to get in to both Babel-17 and Lord of Light. Actually had to re-read parts of both to make the right connections. However, The Fifth Head of Cerberus just wasn't for me.


*nods*Babel-17 could be a bit confusing at places, I agree, but I loved Lord of Light and didn't find it nearly as challenging. Then again, I read a lot about mythology, psychology and religion, so since much of it read like mythology, I suppose it's an acquired taste.

I wasn't fond of Cerberus either. I understood it, which most of the people whose reviews I read who didn't like it did not, but I'm not a literary sci-fi fan. For me, stories are about characters, and Wolfe had no characters I could really identify with. Plus each story completely changed style and that's a little jarring. The first novel was a monster flick you watch at 3 a.m. in black and white; the second was an aboriginal mythology, and the third was Kafka. Neat that he can do that, but odd how it was all meshed together into one book.

I had to read Gateway early because I had to get it back to the library, and I thought it was amazing.

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