Loved itI think it's a perfect place to stop it. And it's like, no, you're going to have to come back in the next book and find out what's through the gate. I love it. I think it's a perfect place to stop. It's quite frustrating.
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The Shadow of the Torturer (1980)
Others: Leaning positive The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim -- and follows subsequent journey out of his home city of Nessus.
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- 9780671253257
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- 290 pages
Genres: fantasy
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Mixedmy general feelings about book of the new Sun are admiration mixed with exasperation ... it's an interesting read genre bending puzzle box dying Earth far future religious allegory
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