(urth) What should I read?

[Antonin Scriabin]

I have enjoyed all of his books that I have read, but his stand-alone novels
that most impressed me (like Matthew) were *Peace* and *The Fifth Head of
Cerberus*.  They are, in my opinion, at the level of the New Sun books;
Wolfe at his finest.  For a brief, mysterious, and thoroughly entertaining
read, *The Sorcerer's House* is also excellent.  It is a bit less dense and
complicated than those other two I have mentioned.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:57 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> Free Live Free blew my mind before TBotNS.
>
>
> On 10/12/2011 5:18 PM, Matthew Knapton wrote:
>
>> I'm a big fan of The Fifth Head of Cerberus, and also Peace. Peace is
>> crazy. I'm not really sure if it's one of the best books I've ever read or
>> one of the most boring, but I recommend it to people just about every chance
>> I get so I suppose I liked it.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com<mailto:
>> lhaygood at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    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.
>>
>>    Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>    On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Jay <miltonwjackson at gmail.com
>>    <mailto:miltonwjackson at gmail.**com <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 <mailto:johnwwoolley at comcast.**net<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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