From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Recent Inactivity
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:52:48 

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Marc Coleman wrote:

> At 06:57 PM 9/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >For some reason, there has been not a single post over the last week. So, to
> >get some more activity, I'll ask for a review of the Wolfe book FREE LIVE
> >FREE. Is it worth buying? What style is it? I'd also like to know the basic
> >plot, as long as it doesn't spoil too much.

> Been a while, but I remember it as a film-noir-comedy-mystery.  Some guy
> named Free is letting people stay at his house free even tho it's going to
> be demolished in a few days.  A witch, a prostitute, a private detective,
> you get the idea.  I loved it, not New Sun but one of his weird sorta
> mainstream but Wolfe messes with yr head anyways books.  I'd get it.
> marc of Serotonia

I also think it's Wolfe's funniest book.

-Rostrum


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