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Today's entry BOTH into classic sf of the past that I actually want to read and "WTF is that cover and did they read the book!?"
Both Wolfe's style and deliberate lack-of-introduction took a while to actually catch my attention and I was often more interested in finding out what the world will throw at our main character next than what he himself will do. Severian spends much of the book as a cypher, but also the book itself is weird and I want to know what happens next please. ...more
Both Wolfe's style and deliberate lack-of-introduction took a while to actually catch my attention and I was often more interested in finding out what the world will throw at our main character next than what he himself will do. Severian spends much of the book as a cypher, but also the book itself is weird and I want to know what happens next please. ...more
This was a book with such great ideas and with such a great start. But then it slowly gets more dull and boring as the plot goes absolutely nowhere. I praised it highly when I started it, recommending it to a couple of friends. They got bored of it too. The book's biggest problem is that it has a clear beginning, and possibly a clear ending--though I gave up before finishing it. But it has no middle. It's like reading the biography of a really boring person, whose life is mostly filled with "alm
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I enjoyed it more the second time around. Still need to move on to the second, wich is around the house somewhere.
Aug 05, 2010
Allen Allen
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