(urth) What should I read?

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Wed Oct 12 14:02:09 PDT 2011


Strange Travelers is a great selection of his short stories...and the 1st and last stories are great GW bookends
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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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