From: "Fernando Q. Gouvea" <fqgouvea@colby.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) A question
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 21:35:08 


[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

**** On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:07:21 -0500, James Stewart <james.stewart@worldnet.att.net> said:

James> All of this talk of Exodus now is making me desperate to read it,
James> but before I do I need to know something. Do I need to invest the
James> time in rereading the first books before this one will make any
James> sense?

I certainly did reread the first three books; it's very helpful. Given the
long gap between the third and fourth books, it's easy to forget too many
of those important details.



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