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From: ph@wucec2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Re: Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun
Message-ID: <1354@wucec2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 11:29:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 11:29:39 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Feb-86 00:52:58 EST
References: <194@analog.UUCP> <3840005@csd2.UUCP> <651@edison.UUCP> <1808@hammer.UUCP>
Reply-To: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn)
Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis
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In article <1808@hammer.UUCP> patcl@hammer.UUCP (Pat Clancy) writes:
>>I read Shadow of the Torturer and thought it was horrible.
>
>I'll second that!  This was an outstandingly bad novel.
>Yet it seems that every year or so the Wulf-cultists must
>issue forth onto the net to demonstrate why there's such
>a large and uncritical market for so much bad SF.

	    Oh, for [insert favorite messiah here]'s sake!  A little
	tolerance, PLEASE?!?  Whatever your opinion of WOlfE's work (or
	anyone else's for that matter), it's not that difficult (or
	doesn't have to be) to understand and admit that someone else's
	may well be different.  I like THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN.  I fully
	realize that the reasons for which I like it may not apply to
	you.  If they don't, I may question you about it, and ask you to
	explain your position, but I will do my damnedest NOT to abuse
	you about it.  Can you do me the same courtesy?
							--pH
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