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Original Title:	There Are Doors
ISBN:	0312872305 (ISBN13: 9780312872304)
Edition Language:	English

There Are Doors

Gene Wolfe

Paperback | Pages: 313 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 1007 Users | 63 Reviews

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Title	:	There Are Doors
Author	:	Gene Wolfe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 313 pages
Published	:	October 9th 2001 by Orb Books (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction

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What are behind all of the doors we have never opened? Every day we take for granted the unknown world beyond the boundaries of our perception. How can you be sure there is not a monster in the closet unless you've checked? This childish doubt of realities we cannot see is not too different from the paranoia experienced by the mentally insane. In Gene Wolfe's standalone adventure s-f novel, There Are Doors, we are treated to another romp through modern America, full of the variety and charm to be found in almost any work by this author. Unlike his more epic books, this one looks at the travails of one man, in a world we can readily comprehend, as he passes through various doors, whether they be physical, metaphysical or metaphorical. He makes for a likable, if bumbling, main character. As anyone who attempts to read Wolfe should know, there are more mysteries beneath the surface narrative than the average reader can perceive in one go. There are usually multiple interpretations to the events described, and by linking together your own interpretations, you are left with a very personal and wacky vision. What I found most enjoyable about this book was the slippage of Time. The nostalgic brand of American paraphernalia intruding at the edges of the scenery, those atmospheric qualities to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, really added layers to the carefully constructed set pieces. I found the flow of the prose to be simple but gorgeous. The concepts at work challenged my intellect, even if the sentences were straightforward and lacked great depth. Unlike a few of Wolfe's more challenging novels, this one is not opaque to casual perusal. It presents much food for thought without making you grind your teeth to the gums. The plot devices waver with the protagonist's untrustworthy impressions of juxtaposed worlds. Whether he's chilling in an Italian restaurant with a sentient doll or selling antique furniture to old ladies, this Dickian narrator is an unwilling participant in a cosmic conspiracy against his own consciousness. The trivial pursuit of his own obsession with a potentially imaginary girlfriend is both sad and heartwarming. While there are fewer chilling moments of startling majesty and haunting dislocation than in his more esoteric fiction, this book is still an evocative, beginner's hors d'oeuvre of Wolfian elegance.

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I had a bad experience with Gene Wolfe. I read his Book of the New Sun a long time ago, and found it both confused and confusing; I didn't like it.I can enjoy complexity in a novel, but I like there to be a point to the whole thing. I like there to be some sort of fundamentally coherent plot. Too many books lack that. I hate books in which the protagonist (if there is one) is insane, or reality changes in arbitrary and unexplained ways...much as I love the 60's, I don't care for a lot of the

Originally published on my blog here in April 2002.Most of Wolfe's novels have a setting which seems to be fantasy rather than traditional science fiction; There Are Doors, a homage to Philip K. Dick, is an exception. When his lover Lara disappears, Mr Green (the central character is never given a first name) sets out to find her, but is soon caught up in a series of parallel universes accessed through "doors". His adventures include incarceration in a mental hospital and being on the run from

I have just re-read this for about the fifth time, and it gets better with every reading. Arguably Wolfe's finest novel, this is almost a primer in how 'real world' fantasy ought to be written.The one proviso is that if you are the sort of person that needs to know what is happening all the way through, you will be very frustrated, as to begin with the reader is in as much a state of mystery as the main character. I love the way Wolfe plays with us, making it not quite clear whether the fantasy

As in any of Wolfe's book, we have a disoriented/untrustworthy narrator that makes the transition between worlds only the first layer to peel off in this mystical novel. We know as little as he does which makes the transition so beautiful and novel in the first place. What sets this apart from his later work is unlikely enough the comprehensive nature. We can pretty much tell when the divisions between worlds occur. What remains for the reader to decide is whether this narrator is off-kilter or

Nice ending. This is a fantasy where a man regains sense of sanity through skipping around worlds passing through portals/ doors following the perfect woman.

Well, if anyone was going to pull off a third person unreliable narrator right, it was going to have to be Gene Wolfe, and yes, he did it, brilliantly. Which is to say that my brain hurts kind of a lot right now from being turned inside out, marked with chalk, tried on by a crazy man to see if it will fit, altered by a seamstress and worn in a blizzard by... well, is it the same crazy man? Most likely. But then, is it the same crazy man in the same crazy world?There Are Doors' protagonist,

What are behind all of the doors we have never opened?Every day we take for granted the unknown world beyond the boundaries of our perception. How can you be sure there is not a monster in the closet unless you've checked? This childish doubt of realities we cannot see is not too different from the paranoia experienced by the mentally insane. In Gene Wolfe's standalone adventure s-f novel, There Are Doors, we are treated to another romp through modern America, full of the variety and charm to be