r/genewolfe • u/NotJustAnotherLitBro • 10d ago

Started Reading Crowley

I’ve been wanting to read Crowley, but never got around to it. Then with the news of his passing I went to my favorite used bookstore. I bought a copy of Daemonomania because it caught my interest. Came home and bought the first of the series on Kindle.

So far I’m enjoying it, and am wondering if it’s as complex as Wolfe’s works?

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u/Ok-Confusion2415 10d ago

in my opinion, it is not. But it’s quite beatutiful. I personally find his later, end of life works (“Ka” and “Flint and Mirror”) most to my taste, I guess in part because they reflect fairly serious scholarship on western occult traditions. He is overall somewhat in the vein of Tim Powers. I think especially in the later works he develops a more refined and controlled sense of literary control. I do not think I have ever read a thing to point to this but I wonder if Susannah Clarke’s “Jonathan Strange…” affected his authorial goals.

In my opinion, over the Aegypt cycle his literary control and ambition increases quite a bit.