(urth) What should I read?

[Lane Haygood]

New Sun, Long Sun, Short Sun = Solar Cycle. 

I personally found "The Wizard Knight" to be below Wolfe's usual quality. Or maybe I just really hated Abel as a protagonist. Either way I don't think they'd make essential Wolfe for me. 

I haven't read Pirate Freedom or Home Fires, but An Evil Guest was great. 

There Are Doors and the seminal Fifth Head of Cerberus remain two of my favorite non-Solar Wolfe books. 

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On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Jay <miltonwjackson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd try tackling his short stories next myself. The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a great introductionto them.
> 
> johnwwoolley at comcast.net wrote:
> 
>> Plunging into the middle of the conversation ... 
>> 
>> Ages ago, I read "The Book of the New Sun", and loved it to the point that I was handing out copies of the first volume to anyone I could get to agree to try it. Wonderful, spectacular book. Then I read "The Urth of the New Sun" and was much less impressed; ditto with "The Devil in a Forest". Then "Soldier of the Mist", a pretty fine piece of writing and a really ambitious and strange (and rather challenging) project. The other day I started "The Book of the Long Sun", and once again, Wolfe is just blowing me away with his prose and story-telling and characters (Patera Silk, Chenille, Auk, even the bird!); I've nearly reached the end of the second volume, and am completely loving it. 
>> 
>> So ... what else of Wolfe's should I make sure to read? I think I'd better go back and reread "New Sun", and the "Short Sun" volumes seem to be a continuation of "Long Sun". (Right?) But what besides or after those? 
>> 
>> -- John Woolley 
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