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A review by abigcoffeedragon
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
1.0
Meh - this failed the 25% test as well.
The issue is that, though the concept is there, the style of writing is that which I cannot stomach.
Classics such as Verne, Wells, Burroughs, while great stories have lackluster story TELLING. This thing happened, of which I am telling you, though it is non-consequential, as this person is now dead. So, why are you telling anyone? I did this thing, and I doubt I will again I said, and as it turns out, I was correct. Well, friggin good for you. Again, why did you waste the space telling me these things. I felt as though I was reading a reading of a journal written by a man dictating to another, so I am at the fifth generation of the story, and it is slow, and boring, and very uninteresting.
No disrespect to Gene Wolfe, who at his time, was one of the masters of the craft, but this does not hold up well in the passing years, in my opinion.
The issue is that, though the concept is there, the style of writing is that which I cannot stomach.
Classics such as Verne, Wells, Burroughs, while great stories have lackluster story TELLING. This thing happened, of which I am telling you, though it is non-consequential, as this person is now dead. So, why are you telling anyone? I did this thing, and I doubt I will again I said, and as it turns out, I was correct. Well, friggin good for you. Again, why did you waste the space telling me these things. I felt as though I was reading a reading of a journal written by a man dictating to another, so I am at the fifth generation of the story, and it is slow, and boring, and very uninteresting.
No disrespect to Gene Wolfe, who at his time, was one of the masters of the craft, but this does not hold up well in the passing years, in my opinion.