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#ReadingResolutions #ForeignCountry
@Jess7

While not my favorite Gene Wolfe novel, the author still rests comfortably in my top 5 of all time.

Can't get any more foreign than this one. A travel writer visits an imaginary and obscure European country and immediately loses his passport.

Chaos ensues.

Only Gene Wolfe can write like Gene Wolfe & his writing needs to be experienced to be fully understood.

Young male American goes to Eastern European country that has kept up its own Iron Curtain. He immediately gets arrested in a strange dreamlike sequence. After that things get very weird indeed, with multiple factions and some ghosts and black magic thrown in. Young American implausibly takes it all in stride. I expect Wolfe to mess with my head and leave me with a dazed book hangover, but this was just alright. Entertaining but it won't linger.

As if men aren't the same. Including, at times, the male POV character making this statement. 🙄

Putting Marlon James on hold until tomorrow so I can attempt to squeeze in one more finished book in March. Can I read this in one day? It's supposed to be one of Wolfe's lighter books, so I'll try! Although if I succeed, I might not be fully present in this world at the end of it. The Wolfe-effect is real.