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Solar Labyrinth
I've been slowly reading Robert Borski's Solar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun"
(Amazon referral). This is the sort of book for which self-publishing was made: a tight, focused subject with a very small pool of potential readers. Borski is a literary detective here, speculating on questions raised by elisions, omissions, and distractions in Wolfe's series. I think sometimes he's seriously reaching for his conclusions, but I enjoyed reading his essays anyway. It's been long enough since I re-read the Book of the New Sun that I can't actually speak to any of Borski's conclusions right now, since I don't remember the details necessary to do so, but the next time I read the series, I'll be looking to see if I agree or not.
Recommended if you both like Wolfe's series and clasp the Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle
(Amazon referral) to your bosom in delight. Not recommended if deep inquiry and wild speculation into books drives you nuts.
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(Amazon referral). This is the sort of book for which self-publishing was made: a tight, focused subject with a very small pool of potential readers. Borski is a literary detective here, speculating on questions raised by elisions, omissions, and distractions in Wolfe's series. I think sometimes he's seriously reaching for his conclusions, but I enjoyed reading his essays anyway. It's been long enough since I re-read the Book of the New Sun that I can't actually speak to any of Borski's conclusions right now, since I don't remember the details necessary to do so, but the next time I read the series, I'll be looking to see if I agree or not.Recommended if you both like Wolfe's series and clasp the Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle
(Amazon referral) to your bosom in delight. Not recommended if deep inquiry and wild speculation into books drives you nuts.Livejournal is currently stripping Amazon and other affiliate tags from links and replacing them with its own affiliate tag to take the kickback that would normally go to me. Please click to Amazon from Dreamwidth crosspost instead of Livejournal if you choose to buy something I've linked to. Thank you.