false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170538754m/60212.jpg 60212 10 A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Abel and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, however, Abel remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, wizards, and dragons. His adventure will conclude in the second volume of The Wizard Knight, The Wizard.With this new series, Wolfe not only surpasses all the most popular genre writers of the last three decades, he takes on the legends of the past century, in a work that will be favorably compared with the best of J. R. R. Tolkien, E. R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake, and T. H. White. This is a book---and a series---for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre. 1695662 2 8 2005 The Knight (The Wizard Knight, Book 1) total:613|5:156|4:230|3:145|2:58|1:24| 613 2275 861 56 1 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 17:56:12 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 18:01:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 5 false false Mon Feb 25 16:22:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 16:22:12 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 06:43:50 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 06:44:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 true false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 15:46:40 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 16:09:28 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:24:49 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:24:49 -0800 2009 Critics can't wait for The Wizard, the promised sequel to The Knight. The award-winning Wolfe has written many fantasy books, but this one, full of imagination and panache, is among his best. The story starts with a convincing if unreliable narrator--after all, the protagonist is a boy in a man's bo...

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I am trying to find the words to describe Gene Wolfe's style of writing. Someone once explained to me that reading Gene Wolfe was like drinking wine. Fo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 07:25:37 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 07:30:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:09:45 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 14:16:06 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 00:09:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 27 21:27:17 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 18:37:10 -0700 2009 Gene Wolfe is known for using a device called "unreliable narrator." His imagery is vivid without being overly wordy. I wouldn't call him a minimalist, but his books may not be for people who really enjoy heavily detailed descriptions (my husband sometimes prefers books with every...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 20:42:02 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 22:48:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 17:38:58 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 09:00:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 09:59:03 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 10:16:02 -0700 2008
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So, when Neil says, "Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. If you don't read this book you'll hav...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 22:03:06 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 12:10:06 -0700 2008 today. The lines on this one seem to be drawn at those who enjoy not necessarily knowing all the time exactly what'...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 06 10:21:40 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 10:21:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=60212