Gene Wolfe and the Severian series
The Usenet list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Feb 1991
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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.

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