What does /lit/ think about Shadow and Claw? Have heard it's

>>9360172
Read it and find out.
But you won't because you're on here instead.

>>9360172
Its much better. Though the first Hyperion book is the duck's guts.

>>9360184
I imagine from what I hear the prose is a bit less accessible than Hyperion?

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>>9360172
It was okay, but not as amazing as some here like to argue.

I think I need to read it again to appreciate it. My first pass left me wondering what I missed.

>>9360172
Gene Wolfe is probably the best genre-writer alive. Him or maybe Peter S. Beagle.

>>9360172
this is one of the few books where reading on an e-reader is justified, because of that instant, large dictionary. no idea what I would have done without it. unless you know latin you will be pretty much lost, and even then a bunch of words are just archaic or obscure

>>9360194
Yep.

>>9360366
It's honestly not that important. A basic understanding of latin roots will go a long way but even without a dictionary or anything you can more or less work out what a carnifex is just from context if you aren't stupid.

Great fucking series. Read it, then reread it.

Read all of it, need to rearead cos I understand absoutley nothing. I took everything at face value and didn't read into any of the dreams except the most glaringly obvious. Didn't get the time travel aspect at all, was bewildered during series end

It was okay but when people say it's "literary" fucking lol. It's not a difficult read if you are already reading lit approved classics or contemporary stuff.

It's most impressive quality is being none cringy genre fiction.

>>9362382
>lol
>lit approved classics
Reddit getting too crowded?

>>9362382
name one contemporary better at writing unreliable narrators with such vivid description.