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11117641 No.11117641 [Reply] [Original]

What do you like most about his writing?

>> No.11117722

>>11117641
how he's one year closer to not being able to produce any more of it.

>> No.11117758

>>11117722
Based.

>> No.11117852

>>11117641
Arcane, esoteric words I have to look up and feel smarter for knowing.

>> No.11117918

>>11117641
the rape

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11117937

>tfw he's probably going to die before he's properly appreciated

>> No.11118020

He gets kids excited about reading and anyone who does that is good in my book!

>> No.11118090

>>11117641
I like that I have to buy other books just to understand what his books mean, and thankfully there is a whole industry dedicated to this end.

>> No.11118104
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11118104

Having only read Solider of The Mist I can only really comment on how effortless he is to read despite not being brainlet-tier. I seemingly blinked and had 300 pages read and enjoyed every bit of it.

Kinda sad Latro probably isn’t getting the ending he deserves.

>> No.11118114

>>11118104
you probably missed a shitton of details

>> No.11118127

>>11118114
No need to be so aggressive, my man. Would you care to talk about what you like about Wolfe?

>> No.11118214

>>11118114
that's what second, third, fourth readings are for
this would be an answer to op, as well: that he can be reread again and again
i never tire of any of them

>> No.11118221

>>11117937
don't worry, maybe he'll get metoo'd and then his reputation will be in the trash where it belongs

>> No.11118517

>>11117641
The soft focus

>> No.11118741

What's the best Wolfe outside of BOTNS?

>> No.11119796

>>11118741
Peace and short stories (the Fifth Head novellas, Death of Doctor Island, Seven American Nights...)

>> No.11119970

>>11117641
BOTNS was the first book I ever had the urge to instantly re-read as soon as I finished it.

>> No.11120021

>>11118741
Latro in the Mist

>> No.11120531
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>>11118741
Firstly, Pic related.

Here's my personal Wolfe Tier:

Pancreator-Tier:
>Peace
>Latro
>BotNS
>Book of the Short Sun
>The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Autarch-Tier:
>The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
>The Wizard Knight
>The Land Across
>Storeys From the Old Hotel
>The Book of the Long Sun

Optimate-Tier:
>A Borrowed Man
>Book of Days
>Castle of Days
>Endangered Species
>Castleview
>The Devil in a Forest

Pelerine-Tier:
>Home Fires
>The Sorcerer's House
>An Evil Guest
>Pirate Freedom
>There Are Doors
>Pandora by Holly Hander

>> No.11120941

How much longer will Wolfe Senpai live? I'm guessing he's got at least another 3-5 years left in him. Enough time for one more masterpiece.

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11121022

>>11120941
I keep expecting him to die but he just keeps trucking along, it's pretty impressive.

Maybe some day he'll respond to a letter I wrote him about two years ago.

>> No.11121095

Should I read this guy if I hate genre fiction?

>> No.11121112

>>11121095
Read Peace, it's the most literary thing he's written. If you like that, check out the rest of his stuff.

>> No.11121150

>>11121095
Depends on why you hate genre fiction.

If you just hate it because it's generally bad, then you should give his work a chance.

>> No.11121303

>won't shut up about his perfect memory
>numerous minor discrepancies in detail
Tell me this was intentional.

>> No.11121320

>>11121303
Of course it was...haven't you ever heard of an unreliable narrator?

>> No.11121373

>>11121320
To what end? I can't wait to read these again…

>> No.11121379

>>11121112
This. Or try The Fifth Head of Cerberus. If you just want to get a general feel for his style, try some his short stories. I'd recommend The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories, The Hero as Werwolf, A Cabin on the Coast, or The Last Thrilling Wonder Story to name a few.

>> No.11121405

>>11121320
lemme dig up some old threads we've had on this topic.

>>/lit/thread/S9906815#p9907319

>>/lit/thread/S9654160#p9654596

>>/lit/thread/S7754127#p7756567

>> No.11121423

>>11121405
Whoops..meant to reply to >>11121373

>> No.11121801

>>11121373
Sev is writing the in-universe version of BOTNS right before going off to be judged by the heirogrammates, as a way of justifying his life so far and convincing himself that he really is the New Sun.
Claiming to have a perfect memory lets him gloss over some things that he isn't sure about and make it seem like everything that happened served to make him the savior of Urth, something he doesn't actually really know or care about until the end of the book.

That's my take, at least.

>> No.11122448

>>11117641
ARAMINI I SUMMON THEE

>> No.11122454

>>11120531
Home Fires is cuck kino

>> No.11122459

>>11120941
he's practically blind now and can barely move

>> No.11123259

>>11117852
That's more like Clark Ashton Smith

>> No.11123370

>>11120531
Where does Urth of the New Sun go?

>> No.11123383

>>11122459
source on this

>> No.11123435

>>11121801
I thought it was merely to justify his rule as Autarch to the people of the commonwealth, so they would take him not only as the recipient of the Autarchy, but also of the mantle of the New Sun.

>> No.11124260

>>11123370
it's ok

>> No.11124795

>>11123435
But he only makes two copies of the book. One copy gets put into Ultan's library where presumably nobody will ever find it, and the other gets thrown into space.
That, along with his mentions of a "hypothetical reader," make me think that Sev never intended for anyone to ever read it.