The Fifth Head of Cerberus Three Novellas

Wolfe's prose is such a pleasure to read (maybe some of the best I've ever seen in SF/F?) and so is the depth of his storytelling. With how opaque and subtle—and strange and clever and beautiful!—the writing is, The Fifth Head of Cerberus feels like a living, breathing puzzle and story in (one or three). Sci-fi in the vein of Nabokov's Pale Fire. I love the lack of handholding and the complexity of each unreliable narrator; Wolfe gives details rich and sparse enough to show trust that his readers can think enough to interpret the stories for themselves. It's interesting, too, to see what post-colonial writing was getting published in 1972.

also the author literally invented the machine that cooks pringles how cool is that

Boy I don’t even know how to grade it, 3+ if you read it by yourself 4+ or 5- if you read it a dozen times or have companion material to go through at the same time?

I might have to read this five times to fully wrap my head around it, but don't doubt I'll find the dogged determination to do so.