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Blog Free or Die
Apr 30, 2005

FOR THE MOTHERLAND
Maybe he's misremembering things as Thecla.

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Blog Free or Die
Apr 30, 2005

FOR THE MOTHERLAND
I felt similarly about the Long Sun, which made me even more surprised reading Short Sun. poo poo goes down, and fast. Also Long Sun does pick up towards the end. And then the ending is :wtf:

I just finished up a reread of the Wizard/Knight books, which I wouldn't say is overly plodding. There's some dialogue heavy sections, or ones where not a whole lot is accomplished, but outside of those plenty goes on.

Blog Free or Die fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Mar 12, 2013

Blog Free or Die
Apr 30, 2005

FOR THE MOTHERLAND

PateraOctopus posted:

...the Long Sun books take a lot of their cues from detective novels.

I find this true of almost everything Wolfe writes. Luckily, I enjoy it :v:

The protagonist is always constantly guessing about what's really going on, who everyone is, and what their motivations really are, for instance with the note Severian gets at the tree inn in the first book of BotNS.

But yea I think it's a lot more upfront in Long Sun, for whatever reason.

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