/lit/ - Literature

>>17468460
>Is it actually that good?

Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Hell yes

>>17468460

no. no body should waste time with these shit tier books....
you might consider these toilet paper level books - problem is to harsh for anus - only after having read all classics. there is nothing you can gain from these modern non scientific books.

read greeks, romans, arabs, islamists, orientals, medieval and only then go for degenerate smug modern lit

He had nothing to say but he spoke anyways

>>17468460
Unironically even better on the second readthrough.

>>17468460
Not really. Average at best.

>>17468460
On a moment to moment prose level, no. On a grand ideas, cosmological scale, yes. It’s unparalleled. If only Wolfe was a better writer, it would be a truly canonical classic.

>>17469227
Sounds like Tolkien

>>17469454
He's considered on Tolkien's level when it comes to fantasy

>>17468460
AAAAAAAAA!! THIS EDITION WAS OUT OF STOCK, NOW I AM STUCK WITH GAY ASS SF MASTERWORKS COVERS. FUUUUCK!

>>17469227
The prose is good in that Severian's voice is interesting but I also don't know what you're comparing the prose to so I guess that's a fair criticism

>>17470430
I pity you.

>>17470430
I found one at a Goodwill but not the other. That was a bummer.

>>17470430
Wait, really? I bought the first one years ago but never got around to it, so you mean to tell me I won't ever have a matching set when I finally read it and want to know what happens?

>>17468460
You're participating in a long-discussed argument, OP. /lit/ has a very factional opinion of Gene Wolfe and his books. To get an idea of this go here: https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Gene_Wolfe

Personally, I'm reading Shadow Of The Torturer right now, and boy it's mesmerizingly beautifully written. I don't think I've ever read a sublimely beautiful Sci-fi/Fantasy book written like the Book Of the New Sun. Read this series, OP, it's a heavily underrated masterpiece. Ignore the normie plebs in this thread and their baseless dismissals of Gene Wolfe.

>>17468460
Were did /sffg/ go?

>>17470468
They only talk about R Scott Bakker now. Also Gene Wolfe is one of those writers who appeals to outer lit.

>>17470457
>>17470430
Niggas, they are available on Bookdepository. Download Windscribe, choose UK, open Bookdepository and order them.

Overrated. “You’ve betrayed everything you are, young Slitherin. HOWEVER, here, take this magic sword and go to the next town, and don't forget to get your ass kicked in the arena by a shopkeeper and meet and fuck your mother for some reason.”

well, its an almost unbelievably good fantasy novel. In part due to its masquerade as "science-fantasy", in which masquerade the book pretty much finds it apotheosis. The cosmological implications of the narrative like >>17469227 says are also a huge part of its sublimity. There's a reason he's talked about on the same level with Tolkien, except doesn't share much literary interest in confluence with Tolkien except for certain Catholic thought-traps such as Faith and (Au / Mo)narchy. Ice-cold classic, really.

>>17470966
The reason why book of the new sun is science fantasy is because it's drawing from the pulps rather than from the same genealogy as high fantasy like Tolkien

>>17468460
My favorite book that I've encountered so far. Just got Urth of the New Sun for Christmas and finished it too. I never thought there would be much Dark Fantasy for us christcucks.

I read that Wolfe hired a private tutor to learn Greek on his own in order to write the Soldier series.
What a fucking Chad.

>>17468477
why is this onions?