What should I read?

johnwwoolley at comcast.net · 12 Oct 2011, 20:47 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: johnwwoolley at comcast.net (johnwwoolley at comcast.net)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:47:41 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: (urth) What should I read?
Message-ID: <1255709933.342111.1318452461499.JavaMail.root at sz0096a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net>

Plunging into the middle of the conversation ... 

Ages ago, I read "The Book of the New Sun", and loved it to the point that I was handing out copies of the first volume to anyone I could get to agree to try it. Wonderful, spectacular book. Then I read "The Urth of the New Sun" and was much less impressed; ditto with "The Devil in a Forest". Then "Soldier of the Mist", a pretty fine piece of writing and a really ambitious and strange (and rather challenging) project. The other day I started "The Book of the Long Sun", and once again, Wolfe is just blowing me away with his prose and story-telling and characters (Patera Silk, Chenille, Auk, even the bird!); I've nearly reached the end of the second volume, and am completely loving it. 

So ... what else of Wolfe's should I make sure to read? I think I'd better go back and reread "New Sun", and the "Short Sun" volumes seem to be a continuation of "Long Sun". (Right?) But what besides or after those? 

-- John Woolley 
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