I am pretty well on record that I think Gene Wolfe is a genius, but you would have to admit he isn't really interested in telling stories in the conventional sense so much as he is setting up really elaborate riddles. Basic narrative conventions are eschewed here, as is often the case with Wolfe-...
This review covers both volumes of the Wizard Knight duology.Gene Wolfe and I have an interesting relationship. Of course we have no actual relationship at all aside that which belongs to any reader/writer pair, but since I'm reviewing a book that's fair enough. Here's the thing: I really want to...
Going to be speaking in a lot of generalities in this review, since I don't want to spoil too much for those who haven't read it.Here we go.Hell yeah. I was hoping Book of the Long Sun would be a worthy follow up to Book of the New Sun. Was not disappointed. Let's get the obvious out of the way -...
Gene Wolfe’s deceptively long Book of the New Sun comes to a close with this, the final volume, The Citadel of the Autarch. (Actually, that’s not quite true – he apparently wrote an extra book in 1987 called The Urth of the New Sun, which I may or may not read in the future.)This was a difficult ...
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".You can rarely trust the popular mar...
This volume picks up and concludes Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun quartet. Most readers will be absolutely lost without reading the first two volumes.Re-entering Wolfe's vision of the future, the tone is the same. Severian is as preachy and detached as ever, though readers will be relieved to u...
Revision: So upon further pondering... this book is certainly 4 stars. I don't know why I was grading it harder for certain, but looking back I would have to bring down a lot of other books to feel like I was properly grading these things. And as for my claims on the main character... umm, fals...
Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed. The two previous novels, combined in Latro in the Mist (Soldier of the Mist...
Having loved the original Book of the New Sun I was excited to find out about the existence of this sequel. Considering that the main series is pretty popular, I was surprised by how difficult it was to get hold of a copy and how little awareness of it there seems to be. I don't know why that is,...
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".You can rarely trust the popular mar...
On Blue's Waters is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the years after Wolfe's four-volume Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story. Though life is hard ...
Η αίσθηση που έχω όταν πιάνω ένα βιβλίο του Τζίν Γουλφ είναι ίδια με το συναπάντημα με ένα παλιό φίλο. Από την πρώτη στιγμή, όπου και ξεκίνησε η γνωριμία μου με τα βιβλία του, με κέρδισε. Δεν ξέρω αν είναι αστραποβόλο χτύπημα, αλλά αν θέλω να προσδώσω μια ερωτική χροιά σε αυτό το πάρε-δώσε, θα πω...
http://www.rantingdragon.com/the-claw...The Claw of the Conciliator is the second entry in Gene Wolfe’s masterpiece series, The Book of the New Sun. Like the preceding volume, The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator was critically acclaimed, receiving the Nebula Award for best nov...
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.Gene Wolfe’s The Sword of the Lictor essentially contains no plot, but it’s the best plotless book I’ve ever read. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read, period. I loved every moment of it! (I read this on audio; Audible Frontiers' audio version, read b...
Oh Gene Wolfe why can't I quit you?! Constantly frustrated by your boring viewpoint characters (your secondary ones tend to be so much more interesting!), your constant practice of leaving out the 'good bits' of the story (only to refer to them, if at all, obliquely and second-hand later), and yo...
Gene Wolfe is a genius, and this is my favorite of his books. The one's I've read anyway. The man is a wizard. In this book, the second of a trilogy, with that trilogy a sequel to another series of four books (quadrology?), with links all the way back to the Book of the New Sun... well you wou...
That’s it! I’ve had it. I think having forced my way through the first three books of the Book of the Long Sun, I am entitled to say that I’ve given it a fair shake. Indeed, having also slogged through The Wizard Knight series and Soldier of Sidon, I think I can say that I’ve given Gene Wolfe a...
As a young parish priest, Father Christopher has heard many confessions, but his own tale is more astounding than any revelation he has ever encountered in the confessional . . . for Chris was once a pirate captain, hundreds of years before his birth. Fresh from the monastery, the former novice f...
Latro continues his journey across ancient Greece in search of his memory in Gene Wolfe’s second entry in the “Soldier” series _Soldier of Arete_. As implied in my review of Soldier of the Mist I am finding this series to be the easiest for me to ‘get into’ of all of Gene Wolfe’s work that I’ve r...
Ο Γουλφ γράφει πολλά πράματα. Παίζει με το ύφος, με τη δομή - είναι ένας ευφυής συγγραφέας. Μα όπως όλοι οι άνθρωποι με όραμα, έχει τις εμμονές του. Και μία από αυτές είναι το γριφώδες, κρυπτικό γράψιμο. Αυτό που απαιτεί την ολοκληρωτική συμμετοχή του αναγνώστη.Αυτό κάνει και σε τούτο εδώ το βιβλ...
Wybór "Ciemnej strony Długiego Słońca", jako początku przygody z twórczością Gene Wolfe'a, może wydawać się niezbyt sensownym posunięciem, ponieważ jest to pierwszy tom serii prequeli do najbardziej cenionego przez fanów autora cyklu noszącego tytuł "Księga Nowego Słońca". Na niniejszą książkę pa...
I went to the margin of the brook, and kneeling there on the soft earth spewed out the dinner I had eaten with Vodalus; and when there was nothing more to come forth, I remained where I was, retching and shivering, and rinsing my face and mouth, while the cold, clear water washed away the wine an...
Colette said, “I don’t know. What do you think?” I sighed, hating to leave the water and the grass, scared half to death to end the moment. “Surely that’s obvious.” “Not to me.” She sounded sincere. “Oh, I’m so glad I checked you out!” “We talk to the expert who opened the safe for your brother. ...
— Song of King Hoaraph’s Bowmen * * * * Zobal the archer and Cushara the pikebearer had poured many a libation to their friendship in the sanguine liquors of Yoros and the blood of the kingdom’s enemies. In that long and lusty amity, broken only by such passing quarrels as concerned the division ...