I’ve started reading Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. I mention Melville’s name not because there is another Moby Dick (a Disney prequel about Ahab’s troubled youth where he forgets to believe in himself?). but because I’m afraid it’s too easy to think of this book as unbirthed, always swimming around in the deep like the whale […]
I’m in love with Gene Wolfe’s Book of The New Sun. That is, if love is a sick confused feeling. Here’s my final review of The Book of the New Sun and The Urth of The New Sun.
Have I mentioned that I’ve been really enjoying Gene Wolfe’s Book of The New Sun? It’s one of the better genre stories around. Here’s Gene Wolfe, or Severian the once-torturer and future king, on stories:
I confess that I love them. Indeed, it often seems to me that of all the good things in the world, […]
Well my annually ordered Stack of books is pretty much out of order. Who knows what I’ll be reading next now. But what am I reading right now? Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun. A series of four books collected in two volumes plus a sequel, which I’ll call the third half, The Urth […]
I once was a teenager with aspirations of becoming a comics artist. Above my drawing table, against the wall I would stare at blankly when I didn’t know how to draw what I didn’t want to have to draw, was a collage of Batman images meant to inspire me when I was feeling least inspired. […]