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i finished citadel of the autarch yesterday and have already started my reread of shadow
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a lot is made of how reactionary wolfe is, but it's hard to read a lot of his most despicable characters as anything but ravenous capitalists and objectivists
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Feb 10, 2022 09:08
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MeatwadIsGod posted:This. Gene Wolfe really is the Dark Souls of reading in that his reputation for difficulty is over-hyped. Neil Gaiman is full of poo poo when he says Wolfe is "throwing knives" at his readers. Just roll with it. this. it's very easy to interpret the obtuseness as hostility but it's clear to me her desperately wants people to understand--the obfuscation is a result of wolfe being a deeply complicated, weird man trying to tell a deeply complicated, weird story about faith. i read his "translator's note" before starting shadow for the first time, and i think that should be the standard. it serves as a primer and mea culpa for the language used. rather than harping on its difficulty i've found a better way to turn people onto BOTNS is to describe it as "if borges wrote a conan the barbarian novel". still inaccurate, but much more inviting
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Jun 22, 2022 09:09
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it's a shame the doctor of death island is kind of a weak story in comparison because the doctor/death/island triptych is otherwise perfect
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