Books by Gene Wolfe
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review 1: Better than average "late period" Gene Wolfe. The Kafka meets Dracula premise is intriguing but the book as a whole doesn't entirely hang together. Unlike some other late Wolfe, the plot does broadly make sense. The afterward implies there may be some sort of political allegor...
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review 1: A little strange. Part mystery, part horror story, and part political. The fictional country depicted was interesting with interesting characters speaking a broken English that was effective. The story was a little drawn out in places so the reading was a little slow. The author ...
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review 1: Gene Wolfe has mastered a crystalline art of prose, precious, delicately strong, and increasingly unalterable. His trademark stylistic gestures are here – the conflicted, conservative male protagonist, the two-dimensional female cipher (object of male adoration / fascination and ...
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review 1: I read about the first half of this book. The stories weren't bad, exactly, but they all felt unfinished. You're never given enough information to understand what the characters were doing or exactly what their world is like. I suppose that's intentional and the reader is suppose...
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review 1: Fun, fun, fun!! Imagine you are a parolee moving to a random town and finding a big abandoned house with some squatters. You have no money and decide to squat yourself. You start taking care of the place, because you are a nice guy (maybe) and think you can make an arrangement wi...
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review 1: A friend of mine recommended Gene Wolfe, so I randomly grabbed this novel from the library. I'm glad I did, because I've spent the last week immersed in an imaginative blend of crime noir, sci-fi, and Lovecraftian fantasy. This book is a wild ride, and I can say without reservati...