XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Taemon wrote:   
      
   > Derek Broughton wrote:   
   >   
   >> Taemon wrote:   
   >>> Well... I was swept away by the Scavenger series, even on reread.   
   >>> But it's hard reading, it's about a guy who has lost his memory, and   
   >>> sometimes the point of view changes and you only realise that later.   
   >>> But it's very good - the guy might or might not be actually a god   
   >>> and he surely ends up killing   
   >>> people randomly wherever he goes. I like that sort of thing :-)   
   >> Ah.  Check out /Soldier of the Mist/ by Gene Wolfe, who did it   
   >> earlier (by fifteen years) and better.   
   >   
   > Never! I read one series by Gene Wolfe (the book of the new sun) and,   
   > although finishing it, I hated it - so full of superiority of the White   
   > Male, it made me sick. No Wolfe for me.   
      
   No, no...  My wife (actually fiancee at the time) gave me the complete set   
   of the New Sun as my introduction to Wolfe.  I still don't think much of   
   them.  /Soldier of the Mist/ is one of my all time favourites, though.   
   >   
   >> OK, I don't really know if   
   >> it's better, because I haven't read Scavenger - our library doesn't   
   >> have the first book in the series - but I really loved Wolfe's book,   
   >> and Wikipedia says "Gene Wolfe is the best writer alive. Period.", so   
   >> who could argue with that. :-)   
   >   
   > /off to edit Wikipedia   
      
   :-)   
      
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   derek   
      
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