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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
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Subject: Re: Re: Review of _Bearing_an_Hourglass_
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 12:55:56 EDT
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> 	    One last note.  At the end of each book, Anthony has an
>       "Author's Note".  He discusses his motivations and what he is currently
>       doing and where he got some of his ideas.  The Note after OPH was
>       especially interesting, since he described his own brush with Death.
>       One could clearly see the influence of his day-to-day life on
>       his writing.  In keeping with my statements above, I can't remember
>       anything about the Note in BAH.
> 
>       b2
> 
>       {backbone}ihnp4!bellcore!b2

I can't hold back on this one.  I have rarely been
more put off by anything I read than I was by the
afterword to On A Pale Horse.  It was bad enough
that, on reading it I felt it was slow in places,
but he had to go on and tell me that he had padded
it--mostly in places I thought were slow.

I read the book and decided it was a good read. Then
he put in this afterword explaining that it was really
a better book than I, the reader, thought it was.  And,
to top it off, he explained that he was writing the
afterword becuase the book was still too short.

In some sense, it is refreshing to see a writer who
is not troubled by the smallest hint of integrety, but
all in all it was the most disgusting thing of its sort
I have read since David Gerrold's preface to Diane Duane's
first novel.

			-- SKZB