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fantastic read. you learn everything you need to learn as long as you keep going. i didn't feel the need to take notes but they might have helped

*sigh* It saddens me, truly, to see the recent swath of negative reviews for this book. But then again, the majority of the people reading this book are Fantasy or Science Fiction readers, which are absolutely wonderful genres and their best works can contain a great deal of literary depth. However the majority of their readers don't read their best works. So why is this book (and it's sequel) so misunderstood? And why... Read Full Review

Like thousands of teenagers, I came of age with *The Lord of the Rings*. The rather ugly Bakshi movie was the first one I went to see without my parents, and the novel was virtually the first one I ever read that was not a children's book, except for Jules Verne's *Mysterious Island*. Just like many Tolkien fans, I became a lifelong devotee of the fantasy genre, and explored the more promising of the other Middle-Earths, from... Read Full Review

Gene Wolfe's four-volume work The Book of the New Sun must rank among the finest works of literature of the past quarter-century. SHADOW AND CLAW is an omnibus consisting of the first half, the volumes THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER and THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR.The Book of the New Sun is shelved among science-fiction, but it is much more. Wolfe draws on Christianity, the works of J.L. Borges, medieval morality plays, and a... Read Full Review

I've read some of the reader reviews of "Shadow and Claw" and come to the conclusion that the book needs an introduction. Many of the negative reviews, I think, come from readers who weren't familiar with Gene Wolfe's writing style, which is understandable. So let me say for Wolfe that you cannot by any means read "The Book of the New Sun" the way you would ordinarily read a book. This mostly stems from the fact that the book... Read Full Review