Epiphany of the Long Sun: The Second Half of 'The Book of the Long Sun'

5 Stars for Gene Wolfe. 1 Star for Amazon's packing abilities. Miraculously the books arrived without serious damage.

Perfect, THANKS

The prequel to PowerHouse, this is a fascinating, character-driven story from the perspective of Paul, a brilliant, OCD 13-year-old with the misfortune to be born into the Stockton family. Great writing, dark humor, and chilly psychological suspense make this book impossible to put down.

Typical Gene Wolfe book - very good but you'll have to work at it. The structure of the book does not lend itself to easy reading and is hard going. If you are prepared to put the effort in, you'll find an amazing intelligent novel. Like most of GW's work what the book is about is not obvious and many questions will be left unanswered.The book is not perfect by any means, there are a large number of character and keeping track of them can be hard (the who's who at start of the book is probably there by the publishers request, this does help somewhat); the book does jump ahead at points (you only find this out several pages later); lots of technical stuff is missed out (in reflection a good thing as the book is about people not so much about technology).All in all a work of epic proportions, that does not take the easy way out.Should this be your first GW book? - maybe not, "The Fifth Head Of Cerberus" might be a better place to start and the books of the New Sun are worth reading before hand to give you some grounding in this universe (but the connection between the stories is so loose that you don't have to read the books of the New Sun to understand these)The story does continue with the books of the Short Sun...

Gene Wolfe is my favorite author so any review I give is glowing. But, he's my favorite author for a very good reason. Too deep, too complex and too moving on so many levels to give a detailed description here. But I think The Long Sun series is wonderful.