# shadow of the torturer and thomas co - (nf) *The Usenet list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Jun 1983* > 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. --- ### bvi *20 Jun 1983, 18:33* Hmmm... No, the only correlation between Donaldson and Wolfe that I share is that they're both hard to get into. However, whereas I *forced* myself to finish the 1st Donaldson book, and had absolutely *no* interest in reading any more in the sequence, I found I couldn't put Shadow of the Torturer down once I got about 1/4 of the way into it. It does take a bit of getting used to, because Wolfe writes in a deliberately obscure manner that forces you to use more imagination than most other SF books. I found that Severian and the whole culture portrayed in the book fascinating; I finished SoT in one sitting and ran out the next day to buy the other three books, which I finished post haste. I only wish there were more! Beatriz Infante ---