Gene Wolfe's "The Wizard Knight"

[Tav_Behemoth]

Just finished The Wizard and am taking a break before going back and reading both books again back to back.

Seems to me this would make a great campaign world. Wondering who else has read this & if they agree!

 

[Richards]

I'm just waiting for the two books to both be available in paperback, then I plan on reading them back-to-back. Gene Wolfe is one of my favorite fantasy authors.

Johnathan

 

[Eosin the Red]

I had trouble with his writing style in Knight. The world seems entertaining - and has some definate mine-ability. I just felt like I was reading W. Falkner and that ain't a good thing coming from me.

 

[Mallus]

I had trouble with his writing style in Knight. The world seems entertaining - and has some definate mine-ability. I just felt like I was reading W. Falkner and that ain't a good thing coming from me.

I haven't read The Knight/The Wizard, but I've read a lot of Wolfe... he may have a love for antiquated words --from multiple languages-- but comparing him to Faulkner is just wrong...

With Faulkner, you have to be twice as smart as you are and incredibly drunk to "get" his prose on the first pass... [Me have problem with Faulkner's syntax. Make head hurt].

 

[talinthas]

i've been looking at these books lately with the building desire to read em. Can anyone review/explain the premise of the novels?
worth reading?

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

They're super good - Wolfe invests heroic fantasy with all the weird mystery of its medieval roots. Imagine the Morte d'Arthur crossed with Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and you're in the ballpark. And, unlike the New/Long/Short Sun books, all the complexity is crammed into just two volumes, so revelations come quicker!

 

[TemplarSaint]

I am intrigued by these books, but I would like to know if the world is more readily comprehensible than the The Book of the New Sun. I enjoyed those books, but I always wanted more info on the world. Can someone who has read Wizard Knight compare them?