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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Re: Review of _Bearing_an_Hourglass_
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Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 03:33:07 EDT
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In article <228@hyper.UUCP> brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) writes:
>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.

Agreed. I think it was Lester Del Rey who said that stories ought to live
or die by themselves, not by their introductory notes. For every author
note I read in a book or story, I read two or three that drive me up the
wall (I wasn't particularly thrilled to hear all about harlan ellison's
vasectomy in Croatoan, for example...)

>I read the book and decided it was a good read.

Hmm... I liked On a Pale Horse enough that I bought "Bearing an Hourglass"
(the second book in the series) in hardback just after it came out (THAT is
a testimony that comes all too rarely...). I'm waiting on the third until
it shows up in paperback, perhaps through the SFBC (that is a testimony
that comes all too often....)


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