Status Updates From The Book of the New Sun

Claw of the Conciliator done!! If only I wasn’t reading the entire series as a single book I would have finished this earlier instead of stopping literally 2 chapters before lol

Severian is so funny, “he’s an unreliable narrator!” and it’s just bc every woman he meets is gorgeous, naked, and wants to sleep with him sooooooo bad

Who put an entire 35 min play in this book

Yoooo they got the Adoring Fan in this???

My goodness this is really bad. Gene Wolfe has an extensive vocabulary, but is a terrible story teller and terrible misogynist. It's almost unreadable. There is almost no plot or political commentary. It's just a collection of non-sequitor scenes and empty characters in an internally inconsistent and incoherent world. How this collection was rated the second best fantasy series since Lord of the Rings baffles me.

Shadow of the Torturer is done! I’m glad that I’m reading this anthology as one large book, because I just found out last night that I was nearing the end of the ‘first book’, and it ends so abruptly I still didn’t believe it.

So far, I’m enthralled by this series. I have no idea what anything means, not much *really* happens, but the storytelling and writing style is so well done I can’t stop