The best week for books in a long long time! (Let's talk about Gene Wolfe)

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Fuck MR GAY, fuck Assassin's Creed, this week is all about GENE WOLFE baby!



Totally new subject matter (PIRATES!), which is awesome after so much Book of the __________ Sun and Soldier books.

Also coming out this week:



Only two years late!



OH YEAAAAH SCOTT PILGRIMMMMM

What's your favorite Gene Wolfe? Mine is dark horse candidate THERE ARE DOORS!!

[The Fake Shemp]

I am illiterate.

[Mandark]

I picked up a couple of Dresden Files paperbacks at the used book store.

They're... not good.

[etiolate]

I didn't know there was a new Gene Wolfe AND that is had pirates. I need that and the new Chabon.

[bagofeyes]

sweet, gene wolfe and pirates

[Ichirou]

wtf, most of these aren't books, they're comics.  Jejune material for the developmentally stunted.  What wankery is this?

[Cormacaroni]

Gene Wolfe...I really like the Lyonesse books. Much less of a hard edge than the New Sun stuff but lots of fun. And lots of trolls ravishing young damsels with their giant warty cocks. Which is sort of a barometer of quality for me in a fantasy novel now, like exploding helicopters in an action movie.

[MrAngryFace]

I agree, im thinking about splurging for this:



Unfortunately it wasnt written by Nylund, who is really good. OH WELL WE'LL SEE!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Lyonesse is Jack Vance. agreed on the troll cocks however.

[Van Cruncheon]

ugh, the New Sun books -- that was crap like Shadow/Claw, right? all i remember are those nasty sex scenes and the stupid "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" cop-out. yuck!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

NEW SUN RULES YOU TAKE THAT BACK
YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW

I actually preferred Long Sun to New Sun, I think. Plus a lot of his standalone pieces. (Peace, There Are Doors, The Wizard Knight)

But New Sun's not a COP OUT COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[Van Cruncheon]

well, i read it eons ago -- i just remember being annoyed by the meandering plot, the gimpy allegory, and the creepy -- dare i say grr martinesque? -- sex scenes. i should probably re-read it now that i'm older and less impatient.

[Cormacaroni]

Lyonesse is Jack Vance. agreed on the troll cocks however.

oh my god, you're right. i've just realized i've had those two confused for years, and that the only Gene Wolfe I've actually completed was 'Soldier in the Mist'. apologies.

[GilloD]

That sounds like a gay porno.