Knygatin Wrote:
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> Dale Nelson Wrote:
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> > Knygatin, please suggest a Merritt novel other
> > than The Ship of Ishtar, which I read in 2011.
> My
> > inclination is to read Dwellers in the Mirage,
> > which I have read, but so long ago that it
> > predates my reading log begun Jan. 1974.
>
> Very difficult, since I am not sure at all our
> literary tastes and preferences are close. I like
> the grotesque and bizarre and weird and colorful,
> while I assume you are more interested in
> something that supports and builds up human
> character in the reader. (I like that too, but it
> is secondary to me when reading fantastic
> literature.)
>
> I have read The Dwellers in the Mirage once, and
> found it slow going, with a few touches of
> excellent fantasy. I mean to reread it some day,
> but then the uncut magazine version.
>
> I could suggest reading the original short-story
> version of "The Moon Pool" which is quite fine,
> and after that continue with the magazine version
> of The Conquest of the Moon Pool,
> [
www.isfdb.org]. (It is
> more pulpy, but has some excellent imagery, like
> the dragon worm and underground auroras in
> sparkling colors.) That is what I intend to do
> next.
>
> I am most impressed with The Metal Monster, again
> in the longer magazine version and Hippocampus
> Press edition. And by The Face in the Abyss / The
> Snake Mother, yet again the two novella magazine
> versions, far superior to the truncated and melded
> book version.
Should this be a good version of "The Moon Pool"?
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