« February, 2007 »
The Shadow of the Torturer 
by Gene Wolfe (1984)
read: 1 February 2007
rating: [-]
category: scifi & fantasy
I finished The Shadow of the Torturer last night. It’s book one of the 4 book series The Book of The New Sun. It’s an absolute classic of fantasy and has won every award they give out. Meh. Gene Wolfe is a wonderful writer with a command of the English language that I can only dream about, but after 200 pages I simply don’t give a damn about the lead character Severian. And since the books are a first person account of Severian’s life, it’s sort of difficult to continue reading when I don’t care about the character.
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