XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: Taemon@zonnet.nl   
      
   Derek Broughton wrote:   
      
   > Taemon wrote:   
   >> Well... I was swept away by the Scavenger series, even on reread.   
   >> But it's hard reading, it's about a guy who has lost his memory, and   
   >> sometimes the point of view changes and you only realise that later.   
   >> But it's very good - the guy might or might not be actually a god   
   >> and he surely ends up killing   
   >> people randomly wherever he goes. I like that sort of thing :-)   
   > Ah.  Check out /Soldier of the Mist/ by Gene Wolfe, who did it   
   > earlier (by fifteen years) and better.   
      
   Never! I read one series by Gene Wolfe (the book of the new sun) and,   
   although finishing it, I hated it - so full of superiority of the White   
   Male, it made me sick. No Wolfe for me.   
      
   > OK, I don't really know if   
   > it's better, because I haven't read Scavenger - our library doesn't   
   > have the first book in the series - but I really loved Wolfe's book,   
   > and Wikipedia says "Gene Wolfe is the best writer alive. Period.", so   
   > who could argue with that. :-)   
      
   /off to edit Wikipedia   
      
   >> Oh! John Varley! Both Steel Beach and Ophiuchi Hotline are very good.   
   >> Varley goes all ways, though. You never know what to expect,   
   >> quality-wise.   
   > Mmm.  Yes.  I read them all anyway, and the ones that aren't great   
   > are at least not a waste of time.   
      
   Well, I didn't like that going-to-Mars series. But Ophiuchi... haven't read   
   that in a long time. I should see if they have that on the Mobipocket site.   
   It's so long ago, I never read it in English.   
      
   Huh. I mentioned Strata, didn't I? That's Pratchett, not Varley. I tended to   
   confuse those two at the time. Now I know better :-)   
      
   Hmmm. I like this thread.   
      
   T.   
      
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