Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:06:00 -0800 (PST)
From: david@slack.com (David DiGiacomo)
Subject: (urth) Re: Wizard Knight and after

>I wonder why the Soldier series tends to be the most underappreciated of 
>Wolfe's work. (Well, it's certainly rated higher than Operation Ares for 
>everyone, I'm sure.)

I would distinguish between underappreciated and low rated books.  I think
that if the Soldier series is underappreciated, it's because very few
readers are sufficiently well read in history to have more than a vague
understanding of it.  CASTLEVIEW is also underappreciated, because it's
incomprehensible (but good otherwise).

In contrast, THERE ARE DOORS and PANDORA BY HOLLY HOLLANDER are low rated
because readers understand them (?), but dislike them.


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