Just Finished The Book of the New Sun

>>9093166

>felt about The Book of the New Sun and the rest of the Solar Cycle + Urth

>>9093166
Is this difficult to read? Someone was going on about it on /a/ earlier and I came here. Sure enough there was already a thread.

>email my extremely /lit/erary friend about The New Sun
>tell him I like it
>he asks why, says he read it 20 years ago or something
>i send a modest paragraph saying what i think is cool about the storytelling
>he replies back like AHHH YES HOW THE SWORD IS BOTH MIRROR AND RAZOR, ACTION AND REACTION, WHICH IS A REFERENCE TO THE FOLLOWING SIXTEEN LITERARY TRADITIONS....
>like twenty instances of this
>makes me feel like a complete pleb

I don't even want to read anymore

It's like I watched a cinematic trailer of the Godfather video game on Youtube and he watched The Godfather with Coppola sitting next to him in the room

>>9093166
What did you think of it, OP?

>>9093699
It's not difficult at all. Reading it is one thing, though. Understanding it completely is entirely something else and I would say it definitely requires multiple readings of it if you want to figure it out yourself.

But the actual writing is generally very practically minded and to the point. It has a certain flair to it at times, especially in regards to all of the weird (though in no way made-up) words Wolfe uses.

>>9093728
Who gives a shit? Just because he's a hyper /lit/fag shouldn't take away your enjoyment of the book.

>>9093699
Not difficult to read, but there's a lot going on and some of it is intentionally bizarre and hard to understand (unreliable narrator). Much better on a second read through.

There are still some sections that are just absurd and I never understood tho (like the the scene in the house in the garden with Jolenta)