/lit/ - Literature

>>17463206
Liked it a lot. it has very little explanation though, and the second book has even less to it's detriment. The third book is more understandable and the best imo. I would say the three books in that story are the most realistic portrayal of the way a person today might feel when reading a book written hundreds of years from now, or how someone in a time capsule from our time, might feel like, if they woke up in the far future. You understand just enough to generally follow, but there are plenty of terms and behavior which are new and weird and which you do not understand.

The books are also one of the most imaginary and iconic books I have ever read. Though I don't think I am using the word iconic in the way it is meant to be used, maybe the wordt I'm looking for is memetic. But when I say iconic I mean books that conjure really rememberable imagery. A good example would be the way the enemies act in the new mad max movie, when they spray their mouth with chrome. It's such a weird but memorable thing to see, and it immediately makes you remember the movie. It's something you can easily put in to memes. The second book in the trilogy is the best one at conjuring vivid imagery, but it is also the one which is the hardest to decipher and there were plenty of scenes that I did not enjoy because i literally did not know what the fuck was going on.

I myself do not like Wolfe, but these books might be interesting for those that do. While the books are hard sci-fi the technology almost feels like magic. But the key word is almost, it is still sciency enough that it evokes the imagination of what might be possible in that way that only science fiction does.

TLDR: If you like Gene Wolfe, hard but unique and rewarding books.