(urth) What should I read?

[James Wynn]

Innocents Aboard is probably my favorite short story collection. 
Although Strange Travelers contains one of my favorite short stories: 
Counting Cats in Zanzibar.

Fifth Head of Cerberus was the one that changed my opinion of The Book 
of the New Sun and of Wolfe as a writer. After I read it, I started 
telling people he was the best SF writer period...ever.
I always recommend Peace to readers who are more into naturalistic 
fiction. It tricks them into following Wolfe.

Pirate Freedom made me think it would be fun to be a pirate. In an 
alternate universe, fantasy stories set at sea are as popular as stories 
about boy wizards are here. In that universe, Wolfe is a god.

Antonin:
When you get into The Wizard, you will see why some people --one famous 
female former-lister in particular-- could not finish the book. But as 
one of the most unusual fantasies, as a fully developed world, as a 
defense of Knightly mores, it's really something.


On 10/13/2011 9:48 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
> I have only read the first half of the Wizard / Knight duology, but I 
> very much enjoyed it.  It was one of those books that got me 
> sufficiently interested (though not enthralled) during the first 200 
> pages or so, and then rewarded patience with the last half.  By the 
> end of the book, I was completely roped into the story.  I have a few 
> other books to read, then I will read /The Wizard/.  I can understand 
> why people might be turned off by Wizard / Knight, but I for one 
> thought the first book at least was great.
>

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