false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1206553359m/60211.jpg 60211 12 The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It relates the story of Severian, an apprentice in the Seekers for Truth and Penitence (the guild of torturers), from his youth through his expulsion from the guild, and subsequent journey out of his home city of Nessus. 762497 book 1980 The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, Book 1) total:555|5:240|4:168|3:97|2:36|1:14| 555 2249 768 55 2 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 11:01:03 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 00:57:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jun 13 17:18:39 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 18:52:08 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 17:18:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Sep 05 07:52:06 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 12:30:22 -0700 2007 The Book of the New Sun at a used book store after seeing it listed on the Top 50 SF & Fantasy books as listed by the Science Fiction Book Club. I'd never heard of Gene Wolfe & thought I'd give him a try. An online friend said she'd just started this book early last week, so I t...more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 17 19:45:46 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 19:45:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Oct 17 17:28:56 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 17:34:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 08:49:29 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 08:49:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Aug 31 13:47:38 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 13:47:38 -0700 2009
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Also, it's very sexist. And it's basically straight-up fantasy with a dusting of science fiction, but the SF p...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 13 20:27:30 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 20:31:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 17:47:35 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 03:46:49 -0700 2009 The Shadow of the Torturer doesn't contain a very adventurous plot by most measures of its genre.

Yet nothing is as it seems in Severian's post-historic world. In spite of this, the text's not confusing so much as we have to constantly alter the gestalts we create to analyze Severian's qu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 17 06:37:51 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 11 09:53:34 -0800 2008
The County library was selling big boxes of books for $3.00. The box I bought was full of books with covers featuring Busty Wenches With Broadswords (BWWB) astraddle Dragons and suchlike. Not the ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 09:20:13 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 07:22:49 -0800 2007
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