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The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

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The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)
by Gene Wolfe

Luke Burrage's review

Aug 26, 12

2 of 5 stars

bookshelves: recommended-by-sfbrp-listeners, reviewed-on-the-sfbrp, audio-book, paper-book

Read from March 03 to 18, 2010, read count: 2

I reviewed this novel in full on my podcast: Science Fiction Book Review Podcast episode 86, though for my final thoughts, I reviewed the entire series on episode 167.

Updated review:

The second time round this was way more enjoyable, though I think it should be broken into two separate stories as the second half bogs down and has different tone than the first.

However, I'm going to leave my low rating in place because as a novel read for the first time I think it is nothing but frustrating, and is impossible to enjoy fully.

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Reading Progress

03/03/2010	page 1	0.47%
03/06/2010	page 200	94.79%	"Hmmm." 5 comments
03/16/2010	page 210	99.53%	"Slow going..."
03/18/2010	page 211	100.0%	"finally finished"
08/14/2012		5.0%	2 comments
08/15/2012		45.0%	"Leaving behind the first half, which I really enjoyed, and moving into the unending chase around Nessus. Hmmm."
08/17/2012		55.0%	"Yeah, slow going for this bit."