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Gene Wolfe and the Severian series
In article <62671 at bbn.BBN.COM> mthome at bbn.com (Mike Thome) writes:
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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.