The Claw of the Conciliator

Gene Wolfe
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The Claw of the Conciliator

spoltz
11/16/2014
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Extract: I finally began reading the rest of the Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe. "Claw" is the second in the series and picks up with our torturer Severian alone on his exile journey to his new home. Like the first book, "Shadow of the Torturer", this book is chock full of gorgeous prose and insight into Severian's character. I loved it, loved reading it, but felt it suffered from the usual plight of the sophomore book in a fantasy series: a sense of meandering..

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