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

There Are Doors Paperback | Pages: 313 pages

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

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3 StarsI was hoping to like There are Doors more than I actually did. I am already a fan of Gene Wolfe and I am familiar with his work. He is an author that requires the reader to be open minded and at times to do work. This book is no exception, both the narrator and the story itself make it difficult for the reader to separate realities and to have any trust in what we are being told.I loved the concept. What a star crossed love story of a Goddess, a man, and many worlds. This story just

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

A somewhat unexceptional alternate worlds story made far more exceptional by the storytelling powers of the man writing it. The ultimate shape of the tale isn't amazing but the journey was fun and characteristically Wolfe. Don't start here, but don't end here either.

Weeeiird. But good. Thankfully it's a short book, because I had close to no idea what was going on until halfway through. But after that, I couldn't put it down. Gene Wolfe has a singular talent for making you go "Wait. What?" and start flipping pages back to find that one phrase or passage that you can't quite remember but suddenly realize was incredibly significant.

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,

There Are Doors is the everyday tale of a shop assistant who falls in love with a goddess from a parallel universe. At least, this is everyday stuff from a writer with the incomparable imagination of Gene Wolfe.The lovelorn man is named Mr. Green and the goddess has many names, but her color is undoubtedly white. She moves between the worlds via 'significant' doors, through which the ordinary yet noble Green is intent on following her.Italian restaurants that double as doorways to another

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