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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Gene Wolfe: these books are basically the Dark Souls of reading
 
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savinhill
Mar 28, 2010

Argali posted:



Has anyone read any of his Wizard Knight books?

It's interesting to note that Wolfe is now 80 years old, and his first novel wasn't published until he was 39 (in 1970). The guy has been writing steady for 40 years.

I read one of them and while I can't remember much about it, I do remember that I enjoyed it.

As for Book of the New Sun, it was just way too dense for me and the plot meandered too much for my tastes, although when I read it I knew nothing about Gene Wolfe and what type of writer he was and was expecting to read a more straight forward type of fantasy novel.

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