Sod you, and the horse you rode in on, Cudmore!
{Especially as you're right.}
If I can fine Chap82 on my shelves, gonna tear the pages out, chew them up,
and spit them in the bin.
Live with *that*, danny boy!
The Red Rover
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: Transshot (full[er] version)
> I refer you to my review of Feersum Endjinn in Chapman 82, in which I ask
> whether Banks is troping Tom Leonard or Ronald Searle. Bascule's strange
> language in FE actually has an effect that is entirely Banks' -- it slows
> down the pace of narrative and obliges the reader to give his (Bascule's)
> point of view more weight than the others. I think FE is a pretty
formidable
> achievement in several respects, by the way.
>
> P
>
> (Robin, you're conflating Feersum Endjinn & Use of Weapons, the latter
> featuring one of Banks' most spectacularly bad -- by which I mean hugely
> disappointing after what went before -- endings.)
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