What should I read?

Matthew Knapton · 12 Oct 2011, 21:18 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: eruantien at gmail.com (Matthew Knapton)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:18:27 +0100
Subject: (urth) What should I read?
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I'm a big fan of The Fifth Head of Cerberus, and also Peace. Peace is crazy.
I'm not really sure if it's one of the best books I've ever read or one of
the most boring, but I recommend it to people just about every chance I get
so I suppose I liked it.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:

> New Sun, Long Sun, Short Sun = Solar Cycle.
>
> I personally found "The Wizard Knight" to be below Wolfe's usual quality.
> Or maybe I just really hated Abel as a protagonist. Either way I don't think
> they'd make essential Wolfe for me.
>
> I haven't read Pirate Freedom or Home Fires, but An Evil Guest was great.
>
> There Are Doors and the seminal Fifth Head of Cerberus remain two of my
> favorite non-Solar Wolfe books.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Jay <miltonwjackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd try tackling his short stories next myself. The Island of Doctor
> Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a great introductionto them.
> >
> > johnwwoolley at comcast.net wrote:
> >
> >> 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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