# Wolfe's _Shadow of the Torturer_ *The SF-Lovers list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Aug 1992* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### HYLTON *12 Aug 1992, 18:38* Like David Ben-Ami, I, too, have just finished reading Wolfe's _Shadow of the Torturer_ and I am not inspired to continue with the series. In all fairness, I must say I do not care for fantasy but after hearing/reading so much high praise for Gene Wolfe's stuff I decided to give it a try. Further, I resent authors (publishers?) who put out what Donald Lindsay calls "multivolume book plus a sequel." Most of the trilogies I read at least are quasi-complete within each volume (especially the first) Big exception: _Hyperion_. I, for some reason, did not resent the two-volume treatment as much with these two. Back to SotT, however, here we are simply left hanging without even having received the quality of writing that Simmons gave us in _Hyperion_. As for the attempts to increase our vocabularies via archaic and/or made-up terms, I find this irritating if not presumptious; however, to each his or her own. Cal Hylton ---