# Gene Wolfe and the Severian series *The Usenet list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Feb 1991* > 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. --- ### Dick Smith *17 Feb 1991, 05:32* In article <62671 at bbn.BBN.COM> mthome at bbn.com (Mike Thome) writes: > DMARKFIE at INDYMED.BITNET writes: >>> On the subject of Gene Wolfe, are there any people out there who have read >>> _The Shadow of the Torturer_ and the other books in the series? >> I've got most of the whole story of Severian and IMHO I found it a very hard >> read. > Not at all an uncommon experience with GW's works - My personal > feelings about his novels run the gamut from interested frustration > through near-awe ... I made a half-joking comment to Gene Wolfe sometime between the publication of the 3rd and 4th books of this 4-logy, about being impatient with Sevarian's progress... his reply: "Sevarian is a very slow walker." Just in case you are wondering, I greatly enjoyed the _Book of the New Sun_. I'm less sure about some of Wolfe's later works, but that's for a different posting. ---