Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:51:04 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Re: St. Johns...John Wright
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 06:46 AM 4/12/04, Ernest Lilley wrote:
>Elspeth says: <<Um, explains everything about what?>>
>
>Ah. Literalists.

No, actually I was just reminded of something Joe Mayhew had said when he
found out where I went to school.

>And: <<I know that to others John's work is erudite, profound, and
>profoundly literary.  And in its own way it is, as a long exercise in
>allegory.>>
>
>Though I probably failed to get the message across in my review, I
>wasn't as caught up in John's erudition, as I was in his main character,
>whom I enjoyed.

Ah, here I finally put together my response to a question that people have
been asking me since the book came out and . . .

>Moreover: <<For a fun Johnnie read, try Mark Fabi's Wyrm.  Fairly light,
>probably now somewhat dated, but with interesting ideas and quite
>entertaining.  So's Mark, come to think of it.>>
>
>Agreed. In my '97 review, which appeared in the first issue of SFRevu, I
>said:
>
>"Wyrm is a thoroughly well written book with an intelligent premise and
>interesting and well constructed characters. It shows that good reading
>and techno-fiction need not be strangers. The characters author Mark
>Fabi creates provide a storyline that balances a well thought out
>whodunit with viruses, artificial intelligence, the internet, and
>everything."
>SFRevu: June 1997 Vol. 1.0
>(http://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/1997/9706/#Wyrm)

Cool.

I'll be honest: I don't read book reviews very often since whenever I do, I
want to get more books.  My budget can't stand for it, neither the buying
of books, nor additional bookshelves, nor the larger apartment to put them
in.

Elspeth