A review by evan_j_dove_007
The Wizard Knight: (comprising the Knight and the Wizard) by Gene Wolfe

5.0

I most definitely came to Wolfe before I was ready. I bounced off of him hard in my early teens, not really sure why he was considered one of the greats. His penchant for unreliable narrators and method of writing don’t play well at all unless you get it. I get it now (aided by my much expanded store of literary, sociological and religious allusions). The writing hasn’t changed (obviously) and the way it flows can sometimes be difficult to read. But the cadence (? I don’t think that’s the right word, but flow seems too vague a term) that he strikes, the way his books read, is nigh on singular, and really special. There will always be some of the inherent vices borne by fiction by and for white Christian men (or rather, not necessarily vices but markings), and Wolfe has some tics that may be annoying for readers, but reading this book feels like something much older, more elemental than it’s protagonists familiarity with cars and ‘Murica would make it seem at first glance. Truly incredible, in spite of its flaws