private press handstitched limited editions with signed cardstock insert and illustrations by this guy on etsy?
― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Monday, 23 April 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Say what?
Truth be told haven't read enough by this guy to be a hater. Still trying to find a way in.
Wonder how book club will work because it seems like he is the kind of writer who will ask of his public, old-skool adventure game or Encyclopedia-Brown style: "on page three of volume I gave a veiled hint that THE TORTURER WAS LEFT-HANDED! Now this fact has finally become relevant. Dear Reader, you haven't been paying attention." Note: This may or may not be a real example.
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
well that's what will make the book club fun - "DIDJA NOTICE HE DID ...."
― the late great, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
Yes but, as I forgot to add, the third time readers might SPOIL it for the rest of ud
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
spoilers can only hurt u if u let them, maaaaan
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
no slam, joking abt the craftsmanship thread, where scott has recently spent time
― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
solemn oath not to spoil
― the late great, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
uh, just fyi---
http://www.centipedepress.com/sf/shadow.html
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, full circle
― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.centipedepress.com/sf/sword.html
^^ uh, $225? uh. at some level i appreciate spending money for a nice book but that is just insaniac pricing.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
eh, if they can find a hundred suckers, why not
― thomp, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, i agree with that for sure (you see the same thing in records sometimes but rarely at that high a price.), it's fine to sell something nice at a high price, but i guess i just underestimate the demand for boutique editions of cult(ish) sf & horror novels, and even among the people who would want the book how many would be able to toss a few hundred bucks at it? like, for the four books--total price of the paperback omnibuses is somewhere around $30; for the boutique editions probably around $900. it makes me feel poor, kind of? xp about book pricing
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
people like nice stuff, disposable income, collector mentality i know. i get weirdly obsessive abt things like this for some reason.
that guy has some nice artwork on his site but i sort of wonder if i missed some scenes when i look at some of it
like what scene is this supposed to be - http://www.abalakin.de/artwork/hi_110116-tcota.jpg ... it's titled "citadel of the autarch"
http://www.abalakin.de/artworks.asp
^^ afaict all of the BotNS-related art is in the 2nd and 3rd rows from the top
― the late great, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
anyway for me what is massive and inscrutable about Wolfe is not the plot or all the little asides but actually the theology of it
wolfe is a devout catholic, right? can't tell whether he's practicing critique or apologetics and when severian is supposed to be a naive barbarian and when he's preternaturally wise
― the late great, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
rufus got all the lion/witch/wardrobe books at the thrift store the other day and i said to him: "you know those are all veiled christian allegories, don't you?" and maria said: "don't ruin them for him!"
― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
it seems to me like your kids will end up being super smart & cultured.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
Did you tell him "Aslan" was the Turkish word for lion and get him started as a language hacker?
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
the worst
― Lamp, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's no chillwave the genre
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
wolfe or lewis?
― the late great, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
I'm no kind of book collector -- I mostly have shelves of old paperbacks -- but for whatever reason I was searching around for Book of the New Sun volumes and got seduced by the Easton Press editions. (Leatherbound, but way cheaper than the Centipede Press ones.) I found the first two on ebay and ordered them before I discovered Easton never got around to Autarch -- so the best I can hope for is to have the first three. Oh well. I read them in middle/high school as they were published, and then again in my 20s. I remember the story making way more sense to me the second time through. Looking forward to revisitng.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 January 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
yay!
― the late great, Saturday, 18 January 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
please start this up!
gene wolfe's book of the NEWSUN!!!!! reading club
― the late great, Sunday, 19 January 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link
Finished Claw of the Conciliator last night, torn on continuing - the back half of CotC was a slog, the completely tossed-off rape of Jolenta was WTF.
I'm going to guess Poochie/Jonas did not die on the way back to his home planet and will return.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
I read and enjoyed Shadow of… but didn’t feel motivated enough to continue, as I assumed (rightly or wrongly) that they would all be on similar lines. I feel like a bad Wolfe reader but I prefer the plotty, early sections to the episodic rambling afterwards.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 12 January 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link
I gave up after Claw, my first time through, but I’ve since read the whole thing three times and consider it one of my faves. There is a lot to dig into when you steer considering why Sev elides certain events and emphasizes others. I don’t want to get into spoilery and meta theories but do want to encourage folks to keep reading. Someone on the other BOTNS thread, prob Vahid, suggested reading the narrative voice as an oblivious pompous ass and I think that helps, especially in the earlier volumes.
I read Book of The Long Sun and Book of the Short Sun last year and I think they’re brilliant as well.
― ian, Friday, 13 January 2023 02:06 (one year ago) link
it may help to read my posts in the thread similarly
― the late great, Friday, 13 January 2023 02:45 (one year ago) link
I didn't like Sword and Citadel as much as Shadow and Claw, maybe, though there are some sections in the former as good as anything in the series. Especially that descent in the mountains. Absolutely worth reading imo.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Friday, 13 January 2023 13:05 (one year ago) link