Gene Wolfe

So i mean, should i get the book? Is there good value out of it, or just some fantasy book with no meaning to it

Greatest sf story ever written. Stop being a fucking wet towel faggot and stop asking people to choose for you. If you think it might be interesting, just read it.

>who is sam hyde

where have you been

nooooooooo

Start with 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus' then 'Peace.' You'll understand it much better. And then afterwards read 'The Man Who Was Thursday' and 'Tales of the Dying Earth.' You don't need anybody to tell you to start reading a book, but since you're here somebody should point you towards some useful context.

Those guys just transfer memes to video and call it comedy. They probably clicked on Veeky Forums once and took the first meme they saw. It could have just as easily been Ulysses.

I heard piece was final stop Wolfe? (Not OP but reading BOTNS and have read a Retrospective short fiction (which included Fifth Head of Cerebral Palsy) )

Peace*
dammit.
I heard Peace* was the final stop for Wolfe.

Final stop maybe in difficulty but he wrote it before New Sun and I think that it serves as an easier introduction to his longer writing. You won't get it but nobody does, and you'll be much better at dealing with stories within stories and weird narrators by the end, and that'll make New Sun a lot more coherent. Or at least it did for me.

And when you read Cerberus did you read the whole thing or just the first third? The first part was released as short-fiction but there are two more parts which tie it together into a bigger story. If you haven't read this whole thing I think you really should. It's relatively easy to read and in my opinion possibly Wolfe's best work.

I have this book and I think its the complete thing. it ended with him finding out the whole clone mess right (sorry haven't read it in a bit)
So far my favorite work was The Death of Doctor Island.

There are three stories with different narrators. Number 5 growing up in the bordello is 1/3 of The Fifth Head of Cerberus.

oh cool, I love the first one so I'll probably love the rest of it.
Have you read Latro in the Mist (Its description looks like it'll be my favorite one if it attempts the same level of intricacy)

Haven't read Latro yet. It's meant to be quite good though. I've been meaning to read some more Greek history first.

is he really though? there's nothing sincere about mde

It's good.
I think you'll enjoy it more if you keep in mind that it's supposed to be a copy of the memoirs of someone from a very different setting, translated by someone who speaks our English. This is why much of the language is obscure--the idea is that Gene Wolfe uses arcane words and makes up words with arcane roots so he can express concepts we no longer really have. Just keep google handy.
Also, you're going to be a little lost sometimes, sometimes annoyingly so--for instance in the first few chapters of the third book. Everything will be explained as the books go on and as your picture of Severian's world develops. For this reason, and because the series is rich with little threads that often connect in interesting ways, it's a very good series to reread.