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Originally Posted by Fnord_Lord  I don't know. I bought The Knight a while back and found it insufferable. It meandered around with the character getting thrown in deus-ex-machina manner from one bizarre situation to the next, with no explanation,
Are his "Sun" books written this way, too? Or is there actually a reliable narrator, consistent plot, and some train of logic that the events follow? |
Well, I read the first two and a half books of the "New Sun" quadroligy (bought all four) and sort of ground to a slithering halt because I just
couldn't take it any more, for pretty much the same reasons you described giving up on Knight. I actually found them to be the worst books I've ever read. Like you, I sold them on to a second hand book store.
This isn't to say Gene Wolfe's not a genius. I guess he's like a fine Single Malt whiskey aged to perfection. A rare treat that obviously brings great pleasure to a lot of people but at the end of the day some people are always going to sip it, gag and cough out the words;
"How can you DRINK this stuff?"
Kailana, having said that, it might be worth trying another Wolfe book before you totally give up on him. The "New Sun" books are supposed to be the best, so maybe the first volume and see what you think?