What should I read?

Daniel Petersen · 13 Oct 2011, 14:43 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com (Daniel Petersen)
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:43:49 +0100
Subject: (urth) What should I read?
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I'll chime in on recommending Wolfe's short story collections - I haven't
run into one I didn't pretty thoroughly enjoy, but Doctor Death is probably
the one that's as consistently rich as New Sun and feels like it prefigures
it in many ways.  I heartily agree with the recommendation of Cerberus and
think that's probably the best next stop.  And I must put in a good word for
The Wizard-Knight duology against its detractors.  It is in some respects
rather frustrating or unnerving or annoying or some such thing (which of
Wolfe's books aren't?!), but I think it's truly masterful and up there with
his greatest stuff - after attempting New Sun and not being sure what I
thought, it was Wizard-Knight (and then the collection Innocents Aboard)
that got me thorougly mesmerised and hooked and led me in to the entirety of
the Solar Cycle and everything else.

-DOJP

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:

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>  *From:* Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
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>  > I have enjoyed all of his books that I have read, but his stand-alone
> novels
>  >
> that most impressed me (like Matthew) were *Peace* and *The Fifth Head of
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> *Cerberus*.
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>  I also think those are his best.  And of course he has written a lot of
> terrific short stories and novellas.
>
>  - Gerry Quinn
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