/lit/ - Literature

Finished the Book of the New Sun. I thought it had a really interesting story world, with cold weapons and lasers, space ships and simple carts, aliens and fauna. There is something very appealing about a society that has gone through a regression from high tech to lower forms.

Wolfe clearly knitted a very connected plot, and I enjoyed the twists and turns. The short chapters tend to always end with a punch that forces you to read the next.

Two of my major problems is with that Severian seems sometimes too passive. Other than that I do love his internal thoughts, which carry the narrative, and Severian as narrator. My other major problem is that I didn't really care for the girls and all the love issues. Dorcas was fine. Agia's function as opponent was also fine.

To those here that have read the following books, is it worth it to continue?