The shadow of the torturer Download the shadow of the torturer or read online books in PDF, EPUB, Tuebl, and Mobi Format. I honestly i don't trust many of the characters he encounters, so if i can't trust severian then i don't know if my brain can do it alone.Soldier of the Mist – Gene Wolfe.pdf 1,134 KB Soldier of Sidon – Gene Wolfe.pdf 1,092 KB Please note that this page does not hosts or makes available any of the listed filenames. would be really interested in where severian has made mistakes in story telling, i'm actually nervous about how much wolfe i'm gonna end up reading in the future because of how many books the guy has written in the same universe added on to the emphatically recommended re-read. I'm not looking for spoilers but if there is anything in torturer that is important to inconsistency, please send me a message. i'm pretty sure the series has me hooked, in a way, at least to severian as a character that i can confide. The thing that struck me about Wolfe (Torturer is the first book by him that i've picked up, i'm currently halfway through the Claw) is he has an extraordinary imagination which, to my mind, tells me I should imagine it, it asks the reader to apply as much meaning to the words as possible.
keeping a dictionary to look up words makes it so much more for me, though. I can now read and enjoy the book without any worries now :) Maybe I will understand and enjoy it more upon rereading.ĮDIT: WOW! Thanks for the advice guys. My consolation is that rereading seems to be universally recommended. Same with this book, I got the feeling that I don't see the big picture. I feel that I am reading the book too shallowly.Īny tips on how to approach Gene Wolfe literature? The only thing that I read from him before this book is his story "The War Beneath the Tree". I was also told that there are a lot of literary references in the book. I had been warned that Severian is an unreliable narrator so that I was always on the lookout for inconsistencies. What I am afraid of though is that I might get it. Sometimes this became quite a hassle, especially when there were many in one page.īut inspite of that, the world and characters are interesting. Because of that, I never read the book without my smartphone to note these words and get their meaning. Not just the fictional words specific to the book but including the obscure, real world ones that you just don't see anywhere. There are also LOTS of words that are new to me.
I am used to easy, straightforward novels so this kind of literature required me to pay attention on a level that I have not needed before. I have started reading the 2 book volume of the Book of the New Earth tetralogy.Īfter finishing the first chapter, I knew that this would not be a light read.
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