Gene Wolfe: these books are basically the Dark Souls of reading

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Gene Wolfe: these books are basically the Dark Souls of reading

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Osmosisch posted:

The sequence starting with the Alzabo in Sword of the Lictor and culminating in the encounter with Typhon usually manages to befuddle me. There's a lot of classic Wolfe timeskips and misdirection that trip me up unless I eject myself from the reading process enough to let my memory/knowledge add context.

The confused wandering in the warzone in early Citadel also always leaves me appropriately confused and disconnected from the greater plot.

Oh man the tunnel chapters in Exodus from The Long Sun are the best/worst example of Wolfe writing at maximum Wolfe-level. I still have only the barest grasp on what went on down there and I read each section three times at a minimum.

10/10 greatest novel ever written.

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