Finished Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe, which is a compendium of the first two books of his Tetrology.  The second book, The Claw of the Conciliator, is the Nebula award winning one, which is ironic given how I thought that the first was much better.  One of the main things I noted about this book is the sheer number of words I had to look up.  ( Read more... )