/lit/ - Literature

Started reading Book of the New Sun after hearing so much about it from this general. Really enjoying it so far but it also makes me feel like a brainlet at times. There are some things I grasp and others I don't. I'm far from finished and will continue reading. Thanks for the suggestion. Really love Wolfe's melancholic writing when it comes to Severian and some of his prose has really hit me hard at times.

The early portion of the book that deals with the Guild and Severian's early life is great. Admittedly, I felt extremely stupid during the chapters that dealt with mirrors reflecting mirrors and the shit going on in the Botanic Garden. Now I'm at the Sanguinary Field and having fun again.

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Oh I didn't mean to imply that Urth was bad! Just that it cheapens the ending to BotNS and ruins some of the mystery

Urth has some of my favorite quotes ever:

"For the void hushes every voice except to the speaker himself. And I have heard it said that if it were not thus, the roaring of the suns would deafen the universe"

"The tongues of men are older than our drowned land; and it seems strange that in so great a time no words have been found for the pauses in speech, which have their own quality as well as a certain length. Our silence endured a hundred waves slapped the hull, and it held the rocking of the boat, the sigh of the night wind in the rigging, and pensive expectation"

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will try that anon thanks

im going to dump some BoTNS art I found