lowtech redneck
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I'm almost finished with the Wheel of Time series.....thank God for Brandon Sanderson coming to the rescue of the collective fandom.
Not to beat a dead horse, but I hope that doesn't happen with GRRM. I don't think GRRM is as old as people think he is though. He's in his 60's. Not a spring chicken, but there's a big difference between 60 and 100.
How do you like it?"Shadow of the Torturer" by Gene Wolfe
How do you like it?
How do you like it?
That is certainly true. I love it. It is one of my favorite books. There is a lot of Ti-explanation there, but if you keep on being sensible instead of nerdy, you will find it much more rewarding in its continued mysteriousness than in the 'ultimate' solutions you could encounter (which, anyway, you can only guess at when you have finished the whole series).I finished "Shadow of the Torturer" and wanted to give you a better review of it than I was able to when you first asked.
I really liked it. There seems to be a lot of layers to it. Some events keep on being referred to, but aren't explained fully, or resolved, so there's some mystery as to what's really going on. It might be because I ended up reading it in short spurts, but the real action part of the story seemed to start very late in the book. However, it was intriguing enough that I'm very much looking forward to starting book 2.
That is certainly true. I love it. It is one of my favorite books. There is a lot of Ti-explanation there, but if you keep on being sensible instead of nerdy, you will find it much more rewarding in its continued mysteriousness than in the 'ultimate' solutions you could encounter (which, anyway, you can only guess at when you have finished the whole series).
Gene Wolfe is one of the few writers whose intelligence has really impressed me.
Cool. How is that?