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  <title><![CDATA[Return to the Whorl (The Book of the Short Sun, #3)]]></title>
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  <default-description>Gene Wolfe's Return to the Whorl is the third volume, after On Blue's Waters and In Green's Jungles, of his ambitious SF trilogy The Book of the Short Sun . . . It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Horn has traveled from his home on the planet Blue, reached the mysterious planet Green, and visited the great starship, the Whorl and even, somehow, the distant planet Urth. But Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. Perhaps Horn and Silk are now one being. Return to the Whorl brings Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, to a strange and seductive climax.</default-description>
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  <original-title>Return to the Whorl (The Book of the Short Sun, Book 3)</original-title>
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    <body><![CDATA[At the end of his &quot;Solar Cycle&quot; (12 books in all) and after reading 7 of his other novels, I have, finally, come to the realization that Gene Wolfe never writes the book you want him to and <em>The Book of the Short Sun</em> is no exception.  This is not to say I didn't enjoy reading the series. Ac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44068964">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, here I am, finally at the end of the epic &quot;Sun Cycle&quot; (i.e. The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun, and the Book of the Short Sun, a neat 12 books long). It is epic, and I'm happy to say that in the Book of the Short Sun (of which this is the last volume) includes trips to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3072647">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[probably the weakest of the books in the short sun series, but that's like saying that this diamond doesn't sparkle quite as much as the other two ... under certain light.  it's just a little more amorphous than the preceding two; a fog less easily penetrated.  it seeps under doors you can't open.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45905519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just a hair shy of &quot;Book of the New Sun&quot;-type greatness. Definitely a step up from the &quot;Long Sun&quot; series. Most of these books success, in my opinion, comes from Horn himself, who is a wonderfully developed character, just as flawed as Severian and Silk, but with a little more sel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48303987">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Nov 17 10:53:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned from this book?  I'm not as smart and observant as I like to think.  I finished the book and immediately wanted to pick up the first book in the trilogy and start reading again.  I was reminded that Catholic writers with a SciFi bent seem to be some of the most perceptive religious th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7102695">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow! Gene Wolfe is always surprising! He is simply one of the best novelists we have -- read the entire series, as there are layers within layers, and a subtle, haunting quality that grows and develops as the story continues. This final book is mesmerizing!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More like &quot;currently re-reading, as this is my second time through the entire twelve book &quot;Solar Cycle.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The last of the book of the short sun.]]></body>
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